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犯罪小说日益流行，并被广泛翻拍为电视剧。本课程将对犯罪小说中寻凶和死尸等写作要素进行分析，并揭示众多侦探小说青睐于将犯罪场景设定在牛津市及牛津大学的原因，还邀请到著名侦探小说作者讲解其小说和电视剧中主角的共性与差异。
adj. 传统的
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- Two writers stand out here P.D. James and Ruth Rendell.
- 两位杰出的作家是P.D.詹姆斯和鲁斯·伦德尔
- I'm probably not saying very much about them,
- 我可能不会对他们谈论太多
- since we are going to be talking later this afternoon.
- 因为晚点到下午我们会讨论
- But I mean basically what I would say is that
- 但我主要想说的是
- what they do is to move traditional detective fiction towards
- 他们的工作让侦探小说朝着
- greater depth and psychological moral and emotional subtlety,
- 更有深度，心理学道德，情感微妙的方向发展
- while keeping the traditional features
- 保持着传统特征的同时
- that give the genre its great appeal.
- 给该流派带来了巨大的魅力
- I think I'll wait when I'll talk this afternoon more about that.
- 我想我等到下午再详细说吧
- But it's an attempt to do new things with crime fiction.
- 但这是对于犯罪小说的新尝试
- And also to make...
- 同时...
- not lose things like the great restriction
- 不丧失某些东西，比如限制于
- the concentration on the close community and so on.
- 注重于封闭环境这类
- And their ability to do new things with this fiction
- 而他们对这类小说的创新能力
- seems to me absolutely extraordinary.
- 在我看来非常不同凡响
- Another thing they do, particularly P.D. James
- 他们做的另一件事，尤其是P.D.詹姆斯
- is to put much more emphasis on the pain of a murder investigation.
- 就是更加强调了调查凶案的痛苦
- She always say murder is a contaminating crime,
- 她总是说凶杀是种肮脏的犯罪
- pain to other people.
- 对他人来说是莫大的痛苦
- And she focuses on the horror of the death for her
- 她着重于死亡对她的恐惧
- I think one of the big moments in her novels
- 我认为她小说里的重要时刻之一
- I think is always when the body is found.
- 总是尸体被发现的时刻
- And she describes it in very powerful ways.
- 她以一种非常有力的方式来描述
- Recently...so that's moving slightly away
- 最近...稍稍从你们喜欢的
- from the Cluedo to the cadaver aspects of fiction that you like
- 寻凶偏移到了死尸那类小说
- Recently in America there has been a very marked
- 最近美国明显在朝着
- swing towards the cadaver side of things.
- 描写死尸方面发展
- Huge address on gruesome injuries and so on.
- 大幅描写阴森的伤口等等
- I think the two of the most spectacular practitioners
- 我想两个最惊叹的践行者
- are Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.
- 是帕特丽夏·康薇尔和凯西·莱克斯
- Title of Cornwell's first novel Postmortem strikes the keynote.
- 康薇尔的第一部小说的书名，尸体会说话，敲出了基调
- And a novel by Kathy Reichs 206 Bones
- 还有凯西·莱克斯的一部小说，第206块骨头
- a number of bones in the human body,
- 人体骨骼的数目
- does the same kind of things.
- 也是类似的小说
- What happens with them
- 所发生的事情是
- is that the corpse isn't just as in Golden Age crime fiction.
- 尸体不再像是黄金时代的犯罪小说那样
- A pretext for a teasing puzzle.
- 扮演一个益智谜题的前奏
- It's actually the center of attention.
- 事实上成为了关注的焦点
- While the Golden Age novelists usually tried to distract your attention
- 黄金时代的小说家往往会尽快将你的注意力
- from the dead body and its mess as quickly as possible.
- 从尸体和混乱中引出来
- It's just really a pretext for having the puzzle set up.
- 那只是设定谜题的前奏
- These two forensic crime detective novels dive into it with relish.
- 这两本法医侦探小说有滋有味地投身其中
- The corpse become the focus of my new forensic inquiry
- 尸体成为法医调查的重点
- often described in some unsparing details.
- 往往毫不吝啬地对细节加以描述
- I mean both of these writers have backgrounds
- 这两位作家都有药学
- in medicines and detectives, are experts,
- 和侦探的背景，都是专家
- are women who are experts in forensic pathology.
- 是在法医病理学方面有专业知识的女人
- The actual narratives tend to be just
- 实际上的故事往往是
- repetitive horror tales about serial killers.
- 关于连环杀手的重复的恐怖故事
- But the ingenuity and the engrossment lie in
- 但是独创性和亮点在于
- the investigation of the injuries and the mutilations.
- 对伤口和残尸的调查
- There's absolutely no shirking the hideousness of the corpse.
- 完全不遗余力地描写惨不忍睹的尸体
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| traditional | [trə'diʃənəl] | |||
| slightly | ['slaitli] | |||
| genre | ['ʒɑ:nrə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| puzzle | ['pʌzl] | |||
| concentration | [.kɔnsen'treiʃən] | |||
| emotional | [i'məuʃənl] | |||
| repetitive | [ri'petitiv] | |||
| detective | [di'tektiv] | 联想记忆 | ||
| community | [kə'mju:niti] | 联想记忆 | ||
| appeal | [ə'pi:l] | 联想记忆 |
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