这场戏：撤诉后回声消失
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撤诉之后，阿德拉被追问：既然要撤诉，当初为什么还要那样指控？她只回了一句 My echo's gone（我的回声消失了）——从岩洞那天起，她脑子里那阵噪音，她管它叫「回声」。顺便能学到 have a hunch（凭直觉猜）和 out of pity（出于同情），想问对方「你是不是可怜我才这么做」，这两个说法都用得上。
have a hunch（有直觉、凭感觉猜）
out of pity 出于同情have a hunch 有直觉、凭感觉猜broke down 崩溃、情绪失控exorcised 驱魔、驱除
庭审撤诉之后，阿德拉面对一连串追问：既然要撤诉，当初为什么还要那样指控？对方是不是出于同情才这样做？在岩洞那天，她脑子里开始出现一阵噪音，她管它叫「回声」，如今它突然消失了。她说不清那一切是不是幻觉。有人替她解释：是麦克布赖德一步一步把她带回岩洞，她才突然崩溃，把「回声」也一起甩掉了。这里有几个说法很实用：have a hunch（凭直觉猜），用来说「我就是有种感觉」；out of pity（出于同情），问对方「你是不是可怜我才这么做」；broke down（崩溃），形容情绪一下失控。都能用在日常对话里。
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“Why did you make such a charge if you were going to withdraw it?”
既然你要撤诉，为什么当初要那样指控？
if 条件句把「既然……又何必」的困惑说得干净，句句在理却不咄咄逼人。
Why did you do X if you were going to do Y?
指出对方前后矛盾时用；语气别太冲，适合朋友间追问。
Why buy it if you were going to sell it? ／ Why complain if you were going to agree?
中性
such a 连读，withdraw 重音在后。
Why promise to help if you were going to leave? 既然要走，何必答应帮忙？
“- I ought to feel grateful to you, I suppose. - I don't expect gratitude.”
——我想我该感激你。——我不指望你感激。
一句客气一句挡回，expect gratitude 把「做好事不求谢」说得克制又不居功。
I don't expect gratitude.
帮了别人又不想被当成施恩时用；语气要平淡，别显得冷淡。
I don't want any thanks. ／ You don't owe me anything.
正式
grateful to 连读，gratitude 重音在前。
I helped because I wanted to; I don't expect gratitude. 我帮忙是因为我愿意，不图你感激。
“I call the noise in my head my echo. I've had it since the cave.”
我管脑子里的噪音叫回声。从岩洞那天起就有了。
把自己的心理创伤命名成「回声」，抽象却具体，一下子能懂。
I call X my Y.
给某种感受或个人说法命名时用；适合解释自己的心理状态。
I call that feeling my alarm bell. ／ I call it my little warning voice.
中性
noise in my 连读，echo 重读。
I call that tight feeling my deadline knot. 我把那种发紧的感觉叫作截止日期结。
“I have a hunch that poor old McBryde exorcised you.”
我有个直觉，是可怜的麦克布赖德把你身上的魔驱走了。
have a hunch 加 exorcise，把一场审讯说成驱魔，轻描淡写又意味深长。
I have a hunch that ...
凭感觉猜测某事时用；比 I think 更口语，暗示没有证据。
I have a hunch she will agree. ／ My hunch is that it will work.
口语
have a 连读，exorcised 重音在前。
I have a hunch the deal will go through. 我有个直觉，这单生意能成。
“No, I only meant that it's difficult, as we get older, not to believe that the dead live again.”
不，我只是说，人越老，就越难不相信死者会复活。
not to believe 双重否定绕出年老的心软，句子越绕越显温柔。
it's difficult, as we get older, not to believe ...
委婉谈年龄、信念或思念时用；语气温和，适合沉重话题。
It is hard, as we age, not to hope. ／ As we get older, it is difficult not to believe.
literary
as we get 连读，difficult 重音在前。
As we get older, it is hard not to look back. 人越老，就越难不回头看。
下一章 · 18extend an open invitation长期邀请这场戏：临别发出长期邀请意思是「有直觉、凭感觉猜」，不是有证据的确定判断，而是心里隐隐觉得是这样。比如 I have a hunch she's lying，就是「我总觉得她在撒谎」。
out of pity。问别人「你是不是可怜我才这么做」，就是 Did you do it out of pity? 这里的 out of 表示动机来源。
broke down 在这里不是机器坏了，而是人情绪失控、当场崩溃。He took you back into that cave, and you broke down，说的就是那场庭审把人逼到崩溃。
不是真的声音，是阿德拉自己给脑子里那阵噪音起的名字。从岩洞那天起它一直在，撤诉后她说 My echo's gone，指的是那个纠缠她的东西终于停了。
意思是「让路、腾出空间」，穿过人群或者有人要经过时最常用。剧里就是一句 Make way, please，礼貌又简短，旅行、商场、地铁里都能听到。
