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可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ One thing that always surprised me about my friend Sherlock Holmes was his contradictory habits. On one hand, he was incredibly organized and methodical in his thinking, but on the other hand, he was extremely messy in his personal life. Despite his neat appearance, he tended to keep his things in a disorganized manner, which often annoyed those around him. Personally, I'm not very conventional either, especially after my experiences in Afghanistan, which made me less strict about tidiness. However, there's a limit to how much mess I can tolerate. When I see someone storing their cigars in strange places like the coal-scuttle, or keeping their unanswered mail stuck to the mantelpiece with a knife, I start to feel a bit self-righteous. I've always believed that shooting practice should be done outdoors, so when Holmes would sit indoors, shooting his pistol at the wall, I wasn’t particularly happy about it.Our room was always cluttered with chemicals and items from past criminal cases. These things had a tendency to end up in strange places, like the butter dish or even worse spots. But the biggest problem was his papers. He hated getting rid of documents, especially those related to his previous cases. However, he only mustered the energy to organize them once every year or two. After his bursts of energy, he would become lethargic, spending his time lying on the sofa with his violin and books. Month after month, his papers piled up until every corner of the room was filled with bundles of manuscripts. They couldn't be burned and only he could put them away. One winter night, as we sat by the fire, I suggested that he spend the next two hours tidying up our room since he had finished working on his commonplace book. He couldn't argue with my suggestion, so he reluctantly went to his bedroom and returned with a large tin box. He placed it in the middle of the floor and opened it, revealing bundles of paper tied up with red tape."There are plenty of cases here, Watson," he said, giving me a mischievous look. "I think if you knew everything I have in this box, you'd ask me to take some out instead of putting more in." "Are these records from your early work?" I asked. "I've always wished I had notes from those cases." "Yes, my friend, these were all done before my biographer came to make me famous," he said, lifting bundles of papers gently. "They're not all successes, Watson," he continued. "But there are some interesting problems among them. Here's the record of the Tarleton murders, and the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the strange affair of the aluminium crutch, along with a full account of Ricoletti of the club-foot, and his terrible wife. And here – ah, now, this is something unique." He reached to the bottom of the chest and pulled out a small wooden box with a sliding lid like those used for children's toys. From inside, he took out a crumpled piece of paper, an old-fashioned brass key, a wooden peg with a ball of string, and three rusty metal discs. "Well, my friend, what do you think of this collection?" he asked, smiling at my reaction."It's an interesting collection.""Very interesting, and the story behind it is even more fascinating.""Do these relics have a story?""So much so that they are the story.""What do you mean by that?"Sherlock Holmes picked up each item one by one and placed them along the edge of the table. Then he sat back down in his chair and examined them with a satisfied look in his eyes."These," he said, "are all I have left to remind me of the adventure of the Musgrave Ritual."I had heard him mention the case before, though I never knew the details. "I would be very grateful," I said, "if you could tell me about it.""And leave the mess as it is?"

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Keywords 1)Sandwicha.Named after the Earl of Sandwich in the 18th Century.b.He loved gambling and never wanted to leave the gambling table.c.He asked his servant to put some cold meat in between two slices of bread as he could eat one-handed without a knife and fork.d.His friends started to order ‘the same as Sandwich’e.Now eaten around the world. Also called a ‘butty’ or a ‘sarnie’.f.In 2003, a man in Belgium stole diamonds worth 100 million dollars from a vault that was protected by multiple security mechanisms, including a lock with 100 million possible combinations, a seismic sensor, Doppler radar, infrared heat detectors, and a magnetic field. He was caught because he left a partially eaten sandwich near the crime scene which was used as a DNA evidence.Hi everyone, and welcome back to the segment called It Means What?Yay. Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu, hi, everyone. 欢迎大家回来【词源考古研究所】这个板块, so in this segment, we're going to explore the interesting origin of words and phrases. So 安澜, what is the word for today? Well, I know how much you like food. Thank you. So I've chosen one that's food related. But hang on, it’s not British food, is it? Yes. It’s not fish and chips, is it? How can we explore the etymology of fish and chips? A fish is a fish, chip is a chip. So what is it? Sandwich.Not so much better sandwich, 三明治. I think I've read that somewhere. Isn't that the name of a guy? It is the Earl of Sandwich. The Earl of Sandwich. Earl is like an aristocratic title,伯爵, but you have Earl Grey like the tea. So this guy literally is called Sandwich. But he wasn't named after a sandwich. The sandwich was named after him. True. Give us the story. So it's quite a famous story. Now the Earl of Sandwich in the 18th century loved gambling. 就赌博。 Really really loved gambling. And when he was gambling, he never wanted to leave the gambling table. So one day he asked his servant to put some cold meat in between two slices of bread, cold meat, Cold meat, it's not meat that has been cooled down. It's like cold cuts, right? Yes.冷餐的什么火腿切的那种 a cold meat, 熟食。So the reason why he did this is that he could eat one handed while the other hand he held his cards. So get rid of knife and fork. No knife and fork. Just use breads as wrapping. Exactly. So he used to do this when he was gambling. And eventually his friends started to order the same as Sandwich. I see. So he got his servants to prepare the bread exactly as he liked it, pieces of meat within two slices of bread. And then his friends looked at it, well, looks yummy just same as Sandwich.Exactly. And then it became a sandwich.  I see I would love to have some food named after me. They'd be calling it a Lulu. I don't think it would be that tasty though. Really?No comment.All right, the same as sandwich I see, but sandwich then got hugely popular because actually what's not to like everything is a lot of... even though in Chinese we don't call it a sandwich but we have a lot of sandwich-like stuff, think about like our 肉夹馍, that's also meat within bread essentially. Exactly. That's the whole thing I think because it's so brilliantly simple. now it's eaten around the world. And we got so many different names for it as well. Sometimes it's called a ‘butty’ or it's called a ‘sarnie’. I've never heard of those two, that must be British. They are very British, they are quite British. In American English, they also have a lot of I don't think it's a general slang for sandwich, but they have a lot of specific sandwich types and they would call it, for example, a Meatball Sub like a submarine sandwich; or going down south, you have things like Po’Boy, things like that.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Welcome back to Geek Time advanced. This is Brad. How's it going? Lulu? It's going. Hi, Brad. So I'm quite excited to dig a bit deeper into Men in Black. As you know, I'm always interested in urban legends, various kinds of urban legends. Last time we talked about Men in Black being, these men in black suits, they're always spotted right after like a UFO sighting, they seem to be test with just intimidating or threatening people to not to talk about the alien or UFO sightings. Is that... do people think it's a government thing like they've been sent by the government? Many people think that it's like this offshoot of the FBI. No government agency has really taken credit for it, but a lot of people think that they might be connected to the FBI, some people even think that they might have started off as the FBI, but then they went rogue, so they kind of made their own organization. I like that. So it's like a rogue cop. Like in the very beginning, they were working for the government and then they sort of just run amok. This has gone wild, gone feral. What might have happened is some consortium of rich people might have said, “hey, we can use the technology from the aliens. So let's not let people know about the aliens, and let's control everything using this organization and they might have splintered off”. Yeah. I mean, we'll get into the usual storyline of a crazy gazillionaire there, sponsoring them to find out more about aliens and UFO. Actually, I have another theory. They might not even be human, men in black, they don't sound human. They could themselves be aliens. They could be, or they could be two different groups there. They could be working together, some might be human, some might be alien. Some sightings of them make them sound perfectly like human. They talk like humans, they look like humans, but some of the sightings make it sound like they don't look very human at all. They have a human shape, but they're very pale and their skin tone and everything is just off. So they are some sort of drone like creatures. It almost sounds like that. Yeah. But this whole idea I have to say that it screams conspiracy theory. 我们之间谈过这个阴谋论. Don't you think it screams conspiracy theory?Definitely. Definitely. It's whenever there's something like this, people are always going to go to conspiracy theories. People seem to like, I think people everywhere in this world, love to think that they've something's hidden in plain sight. There's always some sort of government cover up. There's always this mystery or mysterious plots brewing somewhere under the surface. Right?Right.Is it America's specific thing? Actually, it's not just America. I haven't seen very many sightings of places in a lot of other countries, but there have been a few sightings of the men in black and like the UK, there was one in Cumbria. Man was taking a photo, and in the photo, it looked like there was an alien in the background, or some sort of weird man in a futuristic space suit. Okay.So they took the photo and Kodak, the camera company authenticated the photo as being legit film not been tampered with. So after they authenticated it. Some men showed up to the man's house. They were known as No.9 and No.11. They came to his house and visited him to talk to him about this. They took him to the place where he took the photo and kind of intimidated him and got mad.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hi, everyone and welcome back to Geek Time. Hi, Brad. Hey Lulu, how's it going? So what are you going to propose that we talk about today? Have you ever heard of the Men in Black? You want to talk about the movie? No, not the movie, of course not. We never talk about movies. The book? The comment?No. The real Men in Black. Hang on a minute就是黑衣人。Are they actually real?Yeah, they're real. According to popular legend at least they are real organization. Okay. So let's talk... I'm always into urban legends. Let's talk about Men in Black then. I, because my whole understanding of Men in Black is basically based on the movie. I think there were two or three movies, 就是黑衣人那个系列的电影. They sort of combat aliens or they are in contact with aliens, all the alien species. They seem to be like the contact people. 如果大家没有看过黑衣人电影的话, 可以去看一看，这个电影已经蛮老了, 但是还是蛮有意思的. But who are they? So that's always a really difficult thing to really know, according to a lot of people say they’re Men in Black are just people in business suits who show up to UFO sightings. Whenever there's a UFO sighting or whenever some people are talking about the UFOs, they're the ones who show up and tell people to be quiet. So, they have been seen in many times throughout the years. There is even some video footage of people who are supposedly men in black. There's video footage.Yeah. There's like you don't really see the interaction between them, but at a UFO sighting in a hotel, there were two men who showed up after two of the employees just were talking about the UFO to the news. I see. So is it the sort of idea that government or some sort of organization doesn't want people to know about the real possibility of UFO or aliens, 好像是一个cover up situation that they use these men in black. I remember in the movie that they had this machine that they can erase your memory. So that is something that people actually talk about as something that Men in Black can use or do. Sometimes people say that it's not really a machine, it's just the way you feel like that when the Men in Black come to talk to you, they're kind of like these cold emotionless people. They may not even be real people.They might be drones.It might be aliens themselves. Right. But they come they talk to you, they intimidate you. And sometimes after they come, people feel like they've lost some of their memory of what happened. It's kind of like intimidation tactic and brainwashing at the same time. I feel like I've seen similar setup in like the Matrix. Yeah. The agents are often seen as being like the men in black. They're kind of modeled after the men in black. There are people that just kind of show up whenever there's a problem in the Matrix, which is kind of like when the aliens come to earth, right, there's a problem in the Matrix. I see. I see. But is this a very common belief like if you talk to, say, average American, do they, have they heard of or at least have some awareness of the idea of men in black?Well yeah. This has been very common theme for the last at least 40 or 50 years, ever since I was a kid I've heard of the men in black. TV shows have talked about the men in black. There’s unsolved mysteries TV shows that talked about these people that show up whenever people talk about aliens.I see.Very, very interesting.I see. 所以黑衣人就是，只要老百姓发现了外星人或者宇宙飞船的话, 黑衣人就会来到你的家, 就是让你不要再讲这个事情了.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ 1)Mysterya.Comes from the Greek word for ‘mysterion’ which means ‘secret religious ritual’ or ‘religious secret’b.The Greeks had religious celebrations which were secret and anyone taking part had to swear a vow of secrecy. c.Anyone who broke the vow was executed. d.We still don’t really know what happened when the participants went into the building. e.Some believe that they took drugs or even murder!Hi everyone, and welcome to the segment called 【It Means What?】 hi 安澜.Hi lulu, hi everyone. 欢迎大家回来【词源考古研究所】这个板块. So in this segment, we're going to explore the interesting origin of words and phrases. So 安澜, what is the word for today? Today's word is Mystery. Mystery就是神秘. I love mystery, movies, books and I especially love murder mystery. Oh, I love murder mystery, Miss Marple, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, all of those mysteries I love.Yes, do you know Miss Marple is Agatha Christie?Yes, I know, but I was trying to think of some more. Yet, you only come up with two, but okay, let's come back to the word mystery. I'm sure mystery has a mysterious origin.  It comes from the Greek word ‘mysterion’ .  Mysterion, r-i-o-n. Which means a secret religious ritual or a religious secret. Okay. So originated from like a religious context 是有宗教背景的是吗? Yeah. So many of you have probably listened to our episodes on the Greek myths, so the Greeks had lots of different gods. There was one particular god when they worshipped her. Her?It was her. When they worshiped her, they actually had secret rituals. Was this like an evil goddess or something? No. It was a fertility goddess responsible for the earth and farming. 叫丰产的女神, 但是大家的崇拜仪式都得是在secret都得是私下在秘密保密进行. The most famous version of these were called the mysteries, and the celebrations, the rituals, everything was secret and anyone taking part had to swear a vow of secrecy. Hang on a minute. You said the most famous ones were called mysteries. Do you mean when you say mysteries this referred to the rituals themselves? 当时的一系列这种仪式就叫做Mysteries or Mysterion. Yeah, or mysteria. Ok. And then you said people who were involved and as they had to swear a vow of secrecy就是要保密, 要做这种保密宣誓, 就保密承诺. Yes. Is this like nowadays signing the confidentiality agreement or something? In those days, it was even stricter because anyone who broke the vow was executed or killed.Yeah, I'm sorry. This is like one of those stories that didn't really make a logical sense because if everyone who were ever involved in those mysteria swore a vow of secrecy, then how did we know? All we know is that these rituals took place, but nobody knows what happened. So these rituals happened in a huge temple, in a town very close to Athens, the modern capital of Greece.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ The other word that I often hear is booty. What is booty? B-o-o-t-y. That means the same as loot. loot就是抢劫到的那个赃物. But normally we use it when we talk about pirate booty, so it's the whole idea you got a massive treasure chest filled with gold and silver and precious stones. Normally we would say that's pirate booty. This could only really happen like, I guess back then when ships were transferring these precious metals, and nowadays there are no precious metals on the ships. You don't know, there's actually quite a few ships that get robbed by piracy. So you think of all those container ships around the world. Oh. Perhaps, yes.And at least these Spanish galleons they had cannon. I can't think of many container ships having a cannon on board. And also pirate ships that strike me as very hierarchical, because they're completely men, right? And men at sea and with no laws and whatever. Well. You say that there were actually a few female pirates as well. How does that work? I would think, yeah, I can't imagine that. It is true. It must be badass women. There're some great stories which we don't really have time to go into, but if you're interested, I would say it's only worth having a look at.Yeah. But basically these pirates and also sometimes is that the word mutiny?Yes.Sometimes like if the leader is not strong enough and that people want to rebel against him, then there's a mutiny就是会像兵变一样的. Yeah. So we can talk about a mutiny on a ship. We can also talk about a mutiny in the army, so it's when the sailors or the soldiers decide that their commander is not good enough. So the most famous example is also around this time. And it's called Mutiny on the Bounty. On the Bounty?The Bounty was a famous ship and the mutineers, in the end, they just went to a small island in the pacific, and there's actually an island in the pacific which their descendants still live on. I see. Nowadays do people still believe that there is some hidden treasure somewhere on these little islands, small islands? That is a common stereotype that pirates will always bury their treasure, but to be honest, why would they, let's be honest. They will probably have spent it.Exactly. If you're a pirate, you spend a lot of time and effort to steal the treasure. Why would you then bury it?True.But having said that, there are stories of famous shipwrecks in the Caribbean, and people are still searching for these shipwrecks. 哦，就沉船的那个残骸。Maybe there is some pirate booty or pirate loot. There are a few ships wrecks that they say though billions of dollars’ worth of gold and silver under the sea. Wow, certainly something to think about.Absolutely. But one thing I have noticed up till now, though we were talking about a lot of these like booty things, pieces of eight, it just sounds very lingo, like jargony.Yes.听上去就像行话、黑话这种. I know that pirate language is a completely different category like what 安澜 mentioned in the very beginning, says Ahoy matey or like Arghh.Yes.Let's talk about pirate language. Yeah, so if you watch anything about pirates, you probably hear these expressions. So, “shiver my timbers”. shiver my timbers. Shiver is 颤抖，shake.Yeah. Break into pieces.Oh. So it's, how do we use it? It's a bit like saying “oh, my god!”.You scare me that sorts of thing…