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The Thirty Nine Steps 三十九级台阶 L4 The Thirty Nine Steps 三十九级台阶 L4 1 The man who died 1 死人 I returned to my flat at about three oclock on 五月的那个下午三点来钟我回到寓 that May afternoon very unhappy with life. 所，过得很不开心。 I has been back in Britain for three months and 回到英国三个月，我已经厌烦了。 I was already bored. The weather was bad, the people were dull, 伦敦的气候糟糕，人也没劲，各种 and the amusements of London seemed as 娱乐好像没味的白水一杯。 exciting as a glass of cold water. ‘Richard Hannay,’ I told myself,’ you have 我暗暗对自己说：“理查德·哈内，这 made a mistake, and you had better do 回你错了，最好想办法改过吧。” something about it.’ It made me angry when I thought of the years I 想到在非洲的岁月我就有气。 had spent in Africa. I had spent those years working very hard and 我呆了那么多年，拼命干活挣钱。 making money. Not a lot of money, but enough for me. 现在钱虽然不多，但足够我用的。 I had left Scotland when I was six years old, 自从六岁我离开苏格兰就再也没回 and I had never been home since. 过家。 For years I had dreamt of coming home to 那么多年我一直梦想回英国老家来 Britain and spending the rest of my life there, 度我的余生，然而才回来一周，就 but I was disappointed with the place after the 对这个地方大失所望。 first week. And so here I was, thirty-seven years old, 眼前的情况是，本人三十七岁，身 healthy, with enough money to have a good 体健康，有足够的钱享受，但无聊 time, and bored to death. 得要死。 That evening I went out to dinner and sat 那天晚上我出去吃饭，然后坐在那 reading the newspapers afterwards. 儿读报纸。 They were full of the troubles in south-east 报纸上报道的都是关于东南欧的动 Europe, and there was a long report about 乱，其中有一篇关于希腊首相卡罗 Karolides, the Greek Prime Minister. 里德斯的长篇报道。 He seemed to be an honest man, but some 这个人看来是个实在人，可是欧洲 people in Europe hated him. 一些人却讨厌他。 However, many people in Britain liked him, 可是也有些英国人喜欢他，有一家 and one newspaper said that he was the only 报纸说只有他能防止战争爆发。 man who could prevent a war starting.