馬龍探案卷四 之 正確的兇案 一
那個矮胖的紅臉男人獨自坐在酒吧裡，對著杜松子酒哭泣。他不時舉起酒杯喝上一口，然後凝視著酒杯，彷彿它是一個能夠對映出世間所有悲傷的水晶球，接著，又把酒杯放了下來。
the pudgy, red-faced an sittg alone at the bar was cryg to his g fro ti to ti he raised his gss, drank fro it, stared to it as though it were a crystal ball reflectg all the rrows of the world, and set it down aga
在喬天使的市政廳酒吧，他並不在意這裡的其他顧客。這些顧客大多數也是他的朋友，這會兒正玩得很開心。但是，就連 26 點遊戲桌旁喧鬧的三人組，也沒能分散他的注意力。有一次，當他意識到旁邊那群人在慶祝選舉時，他抬起了頭。他抬起頭是因為這令他感到困惑。那次選舉已經過去兩個月了，然後他發現他們慶祝的是克利夫蘭的選舉，於是又陷入了剛開始的憂鬱中。
it didn’t atter to hi that the other ctors joe the anl’s city hall bar—ost of the his friends, too—were havg a wonderful ti even the loud trio at the 26-ga table didn’t distract hi once he did lift his head when he realized that the group of n next to hi was celebratg the election he lifted his head becae it puzzled hi the election had been over o onths ago then he disvered it was clevend’s election they were celebratg, and returned to his cipient ncholia
這個矮胖的紅臉男人就是約翰?馬龍，芝加哥最有名的刑事律師。此刻，他也是這世上最不開心的男人。
the short, stocky, red-faced an was john j alone, chicago’s ost fao crial wyer at the ont, he was al the unhappiest an on earth
這不僅僅是因為那個來自巴黎咖啡館的長腿黑髮女子典當了他昂貴的聖誕禮物然後和一個新歡去了紐約，也不是因為他已經到了唯一能負擔得起的就只有喝得爛醉的身無分文的地步，也不是因為他要獨自一人待在這座大城市裡度過今晚的跨年夜。只是因為他在這個世界上最喜歡的兩個人去了百慕大度蜜月，而此時，他很想念他們。
it wasn’t jt becae the long-legd brute fro chez paree had hocked his expensive christas present and gone off to new york with a new prospect it wasn’t becae he had reached that