The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 — Page 9
床柱的底部和顶部也以同样的方式被使用。"
The bottoms and tops of bedposts are employed in the same way."
"但难道不能通过敲击来检测出空腔吗？"我问道。
"But could not the cavity be detected by sounding?" I asked.
"绝对不能，如果在存放物品时，在其周围放置足够的棉花填充物的话。此外，在我们的情况下，我们被迫在不发出任何声响的情况下进行操作。"
"By no means, if, when the article is deposited, a sufficient wadding of cotton be placed around it. Besides, in our case, we were obliged to proceed without noise."
"但您不可能移走——不可能拆开所有可以用您所说的方式藏匿物品的家具。一封信可以被压缩成细长的螺旋卷，在形状和大小上与一根大号编织针差不多，以这种形式，它可以被插入椅子的横档中，比如说。您没有把所有的椅子都拆开吧？"
"But you could not have removed—you could not have taken to pieces all articles of furniture in which it would have been possible to make a deposit in the manner you mention. A letter may be compressed into a thin spiral roll, not differing much in shape or bulk from a large knitting-needle, and in this form it might be inserted into the rung of a chair, for example. You did not take to pieces all the chairs?"
"当然没有；但我们做得更好——我们借助一台功能极为强大的显微镜，检查了旅馆里每把椅子的横档，以及各种家具的每一处榫接。如果有任何近期被扰动的痕迹，我们都不会错过，会立即发现。比如，一粒钻孔的木屑，就会像一个苹果一样显眼。胶合处任何的凌乱——接缝处任何异常的裂缝——都足以确保被发现。"
"Certainly not; but we did better—we examined the rungs of every chair in the hotel, and, indeed the jointings of every description of furniture, by the aid of a most powerful microscope. Had there been any traces of recent disturbance we should not have failed to detect it instantly. A single grain of gimlet-dust, for example, would have been as obvious as an apple. Any disorder in the glueing—any unusual gaping in the joints—would have sufficed to insure detection."
"我想您查看了镜子，检查了镜框与镜板之间的缝隙，也探查了床铺和床上用品，以及窗帘和地毯。"
"I presume you looked to the mirrors, between the boards and the plates, and you probed the beds and the bed-clothes, as well as the curtains and carpets.
Vocabulary
- bottoms
- 底部，下面部分
- tops
- 顶部，上面部分
- bedposts
- 床柱，床的支撑柱
- employed
- 使用，雇用，采用
- same
- 相同的，一样的
- way
- 方式，方法，道路
- could
- 能够，可能，could的过去式
- cavity
- 洞，空腔，凹陷处
- detected
- 发现，察觉，侦测
- sounding
- 敲击测试，探测
- asked
- 问，询问
- means
- 方式，手段，意味
- article
- 文章，物品，条款
- deposited
- 存放，沉积，放置
- sufficient
- 足够的，充分的
- wadding
- 填充物，衬垫
- cotton
- 棉花，棉布
- placed
- 放置，安置，排列
- around
- 围绕，在...周围
- besides
- 除...之外，而且
- case
- 情况，案例，箱子
- obliged
- 被迫，感到有义务
- proceed
- 继续，进行，前进
- without
- 没有，不用
- noise
- 噪音，声音
- removed
- 移除，去掉，搬走
- taken
- 拿，取，采取
- pieces
- 件，片，块
- articles
- 物品，文章，条款
- furniture
- 家具，陈设
- possible
- 可能的，能够的
- make
- 制作，使...
- deposit
- 存款，沉积，放置
- manner
- 方式，态度，举止
- mention
- 提到，说起
- letter
- 信件，字母
- may
- 可能，可以，五月
- compressed
- 压缩的，紧凑的
- thin
- 薄的，瘦的
- spiral
- 螺旋形的，螺旋
- roll
- 卷，滚，名单
- differing
- 不同的，有差异的
- shape
- 形状，形式
- bulk
- 体积，大部分，散装
- large
- 大的，宽敞的
- knitting-needle
- 织针，毛衣针
- form
- 形式，形状，表格
- might
- 可能，也许
- inserted
- 插入，嵌入
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