命案目睹记55

时间：2025-10-20 07:32:13

（单词翻译:单击）

Twenty-six

“Now, Elspeth, you’re quite clear as to what I want you to do?”

“I’m clear enough,” said Mrs. McGillicuddy, “but what I say to you is,

Jane, that it seems very odd.”

“It’s not odd at all,” said Miss Marple.

“Well, I think so. To arrive at the house and to ask almost immediately

whether I can—er—go upstairs.”

“It’s very cold weather,” Miss Marple pointed¹ out, “and after all, you

might have eaten something that disagreed with you and—er—have to ask

to go upstairs. I mean, these things happen. I remember poor Louisa Felby

came to see me once and she had to ask to go upstairs five times during

one little half hour. That,” added Miss Marple parenthetically, “was a bad

Cornish pasty.”

“If you’d just tell me what you’re driving at, Jane,” said Mrs. McGil-

licuddy.

“That’s just what I don’t want to do,” said Miss Marple.

“How irritating² you are, Jane. First you make me come all the way back

to England before I need—”

“I’m sorry about that,” said Miss Marple; “but I couldn’t do anything

else. Someone, you see, may be killed at any moment. Oh, I know they’re

all on their guard and the police are taking all the precautions they can,

but there’s always the outside chance that the murderer might be too

clever for them. So you see, Elspeth, it was your duty to come back. After

all, you and I were brought up to do our duty, weren’t we?”

“We certainly were,” said Mrs. McGillicuddy, “no laxness in our young

days.”

“So that’s quite all right,” said Miss Marple, “and that’s the taxi now,”

she added, as a faint hoot³ was heard outside the house.

Mrs. McGillicuddy donned her heavy pepper- and- salt coat and Miss

Marple wrapped herself up with a good many shawls and scarves. Then

the two ladies got into the taxi and were driven to Rutherford Hall.

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1 pointed
adj.尖的，直截了当的
参考例句：
He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。 She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

2 irritating
adj.使愤怒的；气人的；恼人的；v.使恼怒
参考例句：
She found his preoccupation with money irritating.她对他一心只想着钱感到很厌烦。 He has this irritating mannerism of constantly scratching his nose.他老是挠鼻子，这个习惯真让人不舒服。

3 hoot
n.鸟叫声，汽车的喇叭声； v.使汽车鸣喇叭
参考例句：
The sudden hoot of a whistle broke into my thoughts.突然响起的汽笛声打断了我的思路。 In a string of shrill hoot of the horn sound,he quickly ran to her.在一串尖声鸣叫的喇叭声中，他快速地跑向她。