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Let me begin then with that outlined history.
让我先来大致说说那段历史
There were a couple of predecessors in the 1920s and early 30s,
在20世纪20年代和30年代初期，有一些前辈们
but works have no great distinction.
但是他们的作品并不出众
The history of Oxford-based detective stories really begins
以牛津为背景的侦探故事的历史真正始于
effectively in the mid-1930s, 3 books in particular,
20世纪30年代中期，特别是3本书
they have been considered to have lodged the sequence.
人们认为是它们拉开了一系列侦探故事的序幕
In 1933, J.C.Masterman published An Oxford Tragedy,
在1933年，麦斯特曼出版了，牛津悲剧
still regarded by eminent critic T.P. Binnian as
仍被著名评论家T.P.毕尼恩视为
"Perhaps the best of many detective stories
"也许是以牛津为背景的许多侦探故事里
set in Oxford".
最好的一部作品"
The story An Oxford Tragedy has narrated by the senior tutor
牛津悲剧，这部小说讲述的是
at St. Thomas College, Watson, to the novel's homes,
一个关于维也纳访问律师恩斯特·布伦德尔的事
the visiting Viennese academic lawyer
叙述者是沃森，他是小说故事发生地
named Ernst Brendel.
圣托马斯大学的高级导师
When an unpopular tutor is found shot in the Dean's rooms,
一个不受欢迎的导师被枪杀在院长房间里
Brendel sets out to solve the crime
布伦德尔开始调查这个案子
which he satisfyingly does.
并令人满意地侦破了它
Two years later in 1935,
两年后 1935年
Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night appeared.
多萝西·塞耶斯的，俗丽之夜，问世
It brings Harriet Vane
它将哈略特·凡
an Oxford graduate like Sayers
一个和塞耶斯一样的牛津毕业生
back to her undergraduate college,
带回了她本科生时所在的学院
where she encounters
在那里她遭遇到了
an outbreak of anonymous letters, vandalism, threats,
明显来自学院内部的人的
apparently from someone within the college.
匿名信，破坏和威胁
The community of students, dons, and servants
学生，大学教师，和仆人团体
is almost torn apart by suspicions and fear.
几乎被猜疑和恐惧弄得四分五裂
The perpetrator is finally unmasked by Lord Peter Wimsey,
最终罪犯的真面目被彼得·温姆西勋爵揭开
Sayers' somewhat
他是塞耶斯笔下
insufferably superior sleuth.
一个让人有几分难以忍受的高高在上的侦探
Gaudy Night was the 11th
俗丽之夜，是以温姆西为主角的
of 12 novels featuring Wimsey.
12本小说中的第11本
It is also not only a detective story,
这不仅是一个侦探故事
it is a complex exploration of the nature of personal responsibility
它还是对个人责任感与选择的本质
and choice, the changing roles of women after the great war,
大战后妇女角色的改变的复杂的探索
and the relationship between genre fiction and high art.
以及类型小说与纯艺术这两者之间的关系
It's a very significant novel in those terms, too.
这也是在这两种意义上非常重要的一本小说
The third book in my founding trio appeared in 1936.
我找到的三部曲的第三本问世于1936年
It was Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes.
它是迈克尔·英尼斯的，校长宿舍谋杀案
It's an ingeniously plotted tale
这个故事的情节非常有独创性
and the first case to be solved by John Appleby.
第一个案子是被约翰·艾伯比侦破的
Then still Inspector Appleby,
然后还是艾伯比探长
although after a long series of novels,
尽管是在很长的一系列小说之后
he becomes chief inspector and then Commissioner
他成了总警长，然后成了
of the Metropolitan Police, acquiring a son, a wife
警察局局长并娶妻生子
and a Knighthood along the way.
在这过程中还成了骑士
