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Much of the detective works are not even done in Oxford.
很多的侦探工作甚至不是在牛津完成的
Fen investigates crimes located in a west-country cathedral town,
芬恩调查的是英国西南部的大教堂镇
in a boys school, in a film studio and the Devon countryside.
男生学校，电影制片厂和德文郡郊的罪案
Usher's endeavors take him to London frequently
亚瑟的工作经常将他带到伦敦
and even to New York, Harvard.
甚至还有纽约，哈佛
Hilary Tamar's detective work shuttles between Oxford and London,
希拉里·塔玛的侦探工作使其在牛津和伦敦之间穿梭
but also extends to the Channel Islands in Monaco.
甚至还延伸到摩纳哥的海峡群岛
So these are dons who double up as detectives.
所以这些人是教员兼职做的侦探
But the detective work is almost entirely
但是这些侦探工作几乎全都是
independent of the university lives.
独立于大学生活之外的
In this respect, I think they provide a kind of bridge
我认为在这个方面，他们建造了
between the classical amateur detective, golden age amateur
古典的业余侦探，黄金时代的业余侦探
and those of the late 20th and early 21st century,
与那些20世纪末 21世纪初的侦探之间的桥梁
because the amateur crime solver including the donnish detective
因为包括学院派侦探在内的业余侦探
has tended to vanish from British crime fiction
在20世纪后半叶已经快从英国
in the second half of the 20th century,
犯罪小说中消失了
giving way to the realistic recognition that investigation of crime
让位给现实社会中的这样一种认识
is normally carried out by policemen and policewomen.
通常都是由男警察和女警察进行罪案调查的
So detective novels in England in the second half of the century
所以英国20世纪后半叶的侦探小说
came increasingly to a revolve around professionals:
渐渐地变得以专业侦探为主人公
Dalgliesh, Wexford, Laylord, Dauzil, Rebus,
达格利什，韦克斯福德，雷洛德，道吉尔，瑞伯斯
and of course in Oxford, Morse.
当然还有牛津的莫尔斯
Morse is professional, not an amateur,
莫尔斯是个专业侦探，不是个业余的
a policeman and not a don.
他是个警察而不是大学教师
And while a number of these cases are taken to the university
尽管有些案子是在大学学院
and the colleges especially Lonsdale College,
特别是朗斯代尔学院里发生的
the series as a whole does not depend on
但是整个系列里的案子并不都是
the cloisters or common room.
在回廊或者公共休息室发生的
Dexter's Oxford in quite important ways
从很重要的方面来说
straddles town and gown.
德克斯特笔下的牛津罪案横跨市和大学
And I need to return to Morse in a moment.
我等会再回来说莫尔斯
