The Hound of the Baskervilles · chapter 5 of 25
The Footprints
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Dr. Mortimer finally tells what he kept out of the newspaper, and what he saw near Sir Charles's body.
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- Narrator 贝克街的房间里，福尔摩斯和华生都不说话。莫蒂默的声音变得很低。
Bèikè Jiē de fángjiān li, Fú'ěrmósī hé Huáshēng dōu bù shuōhuà. Mòdìmò de shēngyīn biàn de hěn dī.
In the room on Baker Street, Holmes and Watson sat silent. Mortimer's voice had dropped very low.
- Sherlock Holmes 一个秘密？你谁也没告诉？为什么？
Yí gè mìmì? Nǐ shéi yě méi gàosu? Wèishénme?
A secret? You told no one? Why not?
- Dr. Mortimer 因为我是医生，我相信科学。如果我说出这个秘密，大家会说，莫蒂默医生也相信那个童话。
Yīnwèi wǒ shì yīshēng, wǒ xiāngxìn kēxué. Rúguǒ wǒ shuōchū zhège mìmì, dàjiā huì shuō, Mòdìmò yīshēng yě xiāngxìn nàge tónghuà.
Because I'm a doctor, a man of science. If I told this secret, people would say Dr. Mortimer believes the fairy tale too.
- Dr. Mortimer 查尔斯爵士和我是好朋友。我们那儿，读过很多书的人不多。
Chá'ěrsī Juéshì hé wǒ shì hǎo péngyou. Wǒmen nàr, dúguo hěn duō shū de rén bù duō.
Sir Charles and I were good friends. Where we live, there aren't many educated men.
- Dr. Mortimer 只有弗兰克兰先生，还有斯台普顿先生，他很懂自然科学。
Zhǐyǒu Fúlánkèlán xiānsheng, hái yǒu Sītáipǔdùn xiānsheng, tā hěn dǒng zìrán kēxué.
Only Mr. Frankland, and Mr. Stapleton, who knows a great deal about nature.
- Dr. Mortimer 查尔斯爵士相信那个诅咒。他晚上从来不去荒原。
Chá'ěrsī Juéshì xiāngxìn nàge zǔzhòu. Tā wǎnshang cónglái bú qù huāngyuán.
Sir Charles believed in the curse. He never went out on the moor at night.
- Dr. Watson 晚上不去荒原……就像那张旧纸上写的。
Wǎnshang bú qù huāngyuán… jiù xiàng nà zhāng jiù zhǐ shang xiě de.
Never on the moor at night... just as the old paper says.
- Dr. Mortimer 他常常问我：“莫蒂默，你晚上在荒原上，听见过猎犬的叫声吗？”
Tā chángcháng wèn wǒ: “Mòdìmò, nǐ wǎnshang zài huāngyuán shang, tīngjiànguo lièquǎn de jiàoshēng ma?”
He often asked me, “Mortimer, have you ever heard a hound howling on the moor at night?”
- Dr. Mortimer 有一天晚上，我坐车到了他家门口。他看着我后面，眼睛里全是害怕。
Yǒu yì tiān wǎnshang, wǒ zuò chē dào le tā jiā ménkǒu. Tā kànzhe wǒ hòumiàn, yǎnjing li quán shì hàipà.
One evening, I drove up to his door. He was staring past me, over my shoulder, his eyes full of terror.
- Dr. Mortimer 我马上回过头，看见一个黑黑的东西跑了过去，有小牛那么大。
Wǒ mǎshàng huíguò tóu, kànjiàn yí gè hēihēi de dōngxi pǎo le guòqù, yǒu xiǎoniú nàme dà.
I turned around at once and saw something black run past. It was as big as a calf.
- Dr. Watson 是一只狗吗？
Shì yì zhī gǒu ma?
Was it a dog?
- Dr. Mortimer 我不知道。我跑过去找，可是什么也没有了。查尔斯爵士吓得脸都白了。
Wǒ bù zhīdào. Wǒ pǎo guòqù zhǎo, kěshì shénme yě méiyǒu le. Chá'ěrsī Juéshì xià de liǎn dōu bái le.
I don't know. I ran over to look, but it was gone. Sir Charles had gone white with fear.
- Dr. Mortimer 他的心脏本来就不好。所以我让他去伦敦住一段时间。
Tā de xīnzàng běnlái jiù bù hǎo. Suǒyǐ wǒ ràng tā qù Lúndūn zhù yí duàn shíjiān.
His heart was already weak. So I told him to go and stay in London for a while.
- Sherlock Holmes 他第二天就要去伦敦了……好，说说你的秘密吧。你到紫杉小路的时候，看到了什么？
Tā dì èr tiān jiù yào qù Lúndūn le… hǎo, shuōshuo nǐ de mìmì ba. Nǐ dào zǐshān xiǎolù de shíhou, kàndào le shénme?
He was to leave for London the next day... Well, tell me your secret. When you reached the yew alley, what did you see?
- Dr. Mortimer 我先看了小门那儿。地上有雪茄的烟灰，掉了两次。他在那儿站了好一会儿。
Wǒ xiān kàn le xiǎo mén nàr. Dìshang yǒu xuějiā de yānhuī, diào le liǎng cì. Tā zài nàr zhàn le hǎo yíhuìr.
First I looked by the little gate. There was cigar ash on the ground, dropped twice. He had stood there for quite a while.
- Sherlock Holmes 雪茄的烟灰！很好的线索！华生，你听见了吗？这位医生会看烟灰！
Xuějiā de yānhuī! Hěn hǎo de xiànsuǒ! Huáshēng, nǐ tīngjiàn le ma? Zhè wèi yīshēng huì kàn yānhuī!
Cigar ash! An excellent clue! Watson, did you hear that? This doctor knows how to read cigar ash!
- Dr. Watson 莫蒂默医生，他很少说别人好。你快成侦探了！
Mòdìmò yīshēng, tā hěn shǎo shuō biérén hǎo. Nǐ kuài chéng zhēntàn le!
Dr. Mortimer, he hardly ever praises anyone. You're nearly a detective!
- Dr. Mortimer 过了小门，他是用脚尖走的，这我也看见了。他身上没有伤。
Guò le xiǎo mén, tā shì yòng jiǎojiān zǒu de, zhè wǒ yě kànjiàn le. Tā shēnshang méiyǒu shāng.
Past the gate he was on his toes. I saw that myself. And there was no wound on him.
- Dr. Mortimer 可是他的脸……我当了很多年医生，从来没见过那么害怕的脸。
Kěshì tā de liǎn… wǒ dāng le hěn duō nián yīshēng, cónglái méi jiànguo nàme hàipà de liǎn.
But his face... I've been a doctor for many years, and I've never seen a face so full of fear.
- Dr. Watson 就像那个女孩一样……他也是被吓死的？
Jiù xiàng nàge nǚhái yíyàng… tā yě shì bèi xiàsǐ de?
Just like the girl... was he frightened to death too?
- Dr. Mortimer 我是医生。我只能说，他的心脏停了。可是，是什么让它停下来的？
Wǒ shì yīshēng. Wǒ zhǐ néng shuō, tā de xīnzàng tíng le. Kěshì, shì shénme ràng tā tíng xiàlái de?
I'm a doctor. All I can say is that his heart stopped. But what made it stop?
- Sherlock Holmes 巴里摩尔说，他身边的地上什么也没有。是这样吗？
Bālǐmó'ěr shuō, tā shēnbiān de dìshang shénme yě méiyǒu. Shì zhèyàng ma?
Barrymore said there was nothing on the ground near the body. Is that true?
- Dr. Mortimer 巴里摩尔没有看见。可是我看见了，就在离他不远的地方。
Bālǐmó'ěr méiyǒu kànjiàn. Kěshì wǒ kànjiàn le, jiù zài lí tā bù yuǎn de dìfang.
Barrymore didn't notice. But I did, a little way from the body.
- Dr. Mortimer 有一些脚印，很新，也很清楚。
Yǒu yìxiē jiǎoyìn, hěn xīn, yě hěn qīngchu.
There were footprints. Fresh, and very clear.
- Sherlock Holmes 脚印？
Jiǎoyìn?
Footprints?
- Dr. Mortimer 脚印。
Jiǎoyìn.
Footprints.
- Sherlock Holmes 男人的，还是女人的？
Nánrén de, háishi nǚrén de?
A man's or a woman's?
- Dr. Mortimer 福尔摩斯先生，那是……一只特别大的猎犬的脚印！
Fú'ěrmósī xiānsheng, nà shì… yì zhī tèbié dà de lièquǎn de jiǎoyìn!
Mr. Holmes, they were... the footprints of a gigantic hound!
What changed in the story?
- Why did Mortimer keep what he saw a secret?
“如果我说出这个秘密，大家会说，莫蒂默医生也相信那个童话”
- What did Mortimer see run past one evening at Sir Charles's door?
“看见一个黑黑的东西跑了过去，有小牛那么大”
- What did Mortimer find by the little gate?
“地上有雪茄的烟灰，掉了两次”
- What did Mortimer see that Barrymore did not?
“巴里摩尔没有看见。可是我看见了……有一些脚印，很新，也很清楚”
- Whose footprints were they?
“一只特别大的猎犬的脚印”