English,The Da Vinci Code, Chapter 29
Inside Saint-Sulpice, Silas carried the heavy iron votive candle holder from the altar back toward
the obelisk. The shaft would do nicely as a battering ram. Eyeing the gray marble panel that
covered the apparent hollow in the floor, he realized he could not possibly shatter the covering
without making considerable noise.
Iron on marble. It would echo off the vaulted ceilings.
圣叙尔皮斯教堂中，塞拉斯从圣坛上取下烛台，走回方尖碑前。烛台架正好可以用来敲碎地砖。塞拉斯瞅了瞅那块下面有空洞的大理石地砖，意识到要想敲碎它而不发出声音是不可能的。
用铁家伙敲大理石，一定会在这圆拱屋顶下产生很大的回响。
Would the nun hear him? She should be asleep by now. Even so, it was a chance Silas preferred
not to take. Looking around for a cloth to wrap around the tip of the iron pole, he saw nothing
except the altar's linen mantle, which he refused to defile. My cloak,he thought. Knowing he was
alone in the great church, Silas untied his cloak and slipped it off his body. As he removed it, he
felt a sting as the wool fibers stuck to the fresh wounds on his back.
Naked now, except for his loin swaddle, Silas wrapped his cloak over the end of the iron rod. Then,
aiming at the center of the floor tile, he drove the tip into it. A muffled thud. The stone did not
break. He drove the pole into it again. Again a dull thud, but this time accompanied by a crack. On
the third swing, the covering finally shattered, and stone shards fell into a hollow area beneath the
floor.
A compartment!
会不会让修女听见？她现在一定睡着了。即使这样，塞拉斯也不想冒险。他环顾四周，想找块布把铁棒头包起来。他所能发现的，只有圣坛上的那块亚麻遮布，但那是他不愿玷污的。我的披风，他想道。塞拉斯知道这里没有旁人，于是解下了披风。当他脱下披风时，羊毛纤维刺痛了他背部的新伤口。
此时，塞拉斯赤裸着身体，只系着一根腰带。他将披风包在铁棒头上，然后瞄准那块地砖的中心，将铁棒砸了下去。一声闷响。地砖并没有破。他又砸了一下。这次的闷响伴随着石块开裂的声音。当他砸到第三下时，地砖终于碎了，碎石片纷纷落入下面的空洞中。
一个隔层！
Quickly pulling the remaining pieces from the opening, Silas gazed into the void. His blood
pounded as he knelt down before it. Raising his pale bare arm, he reached inside.
At first he felt nothing. The floor of the compartment was bare, smooth stone. Then, feeling deeper,
reaching his arm in under the Rose Line, he touched something! A thick stone tablet. Getting his
fingers around the edge, he gripped it and gently lifted the tablet out. As he stood and examined his
find, he realized he was holding a rough-hewn stone slab with engraved words. He felt for an
instant like a modern-day Moses.
As Silas read the words on the tablet, he felt surprise. He had expected the keystone to be a map, or
a complex series of directions, perhaps even encoded. The keystone, however, bore the simplest of
inscriptions.
塞拉斯迅速地拨开残留在洞口的碎石，向空洞里张望。他跪在那里，热血沸腾，将赤裸的白手臂伸进了洞里。
起先，他什么也没有摸到。隔层是空的，只有光溜溜的石头。他又向深处摸去，在玫瑰线的下方，他摸到了些什么！一块厚厚的石板。他抓住石板边缘，轻轻地把石板抬了出来。他站起身来，仔细地打量自己的发现，只见这是一块边缘粗糙、刻着文字的石板。好一阵子，他觉得自己成了当代的摩西。
塞拉斯定睛看那文字，颇感惊奇。他本以为这上面会刻着一幅地图，或一系列复杂的指令或是一串密码，但实际上石板上所刻的文字再简单不过了。
Job 38:11
A Bible verse?Silas was stunned with the devilish simplicity. The secret location of that which
they sought was revealed in a Bible verse? The brotherhood stopped at nothing to mock the
righteous!
Job. Chapter thirty-eight. Verse eleven.
Although Silas did not recall the exact contents of verse eleven by heart, he knew the Book of Job
told the story of a man whose faith in God survived repeated tests. Appropriate,he thought, barely
able to contain his excitement.
Looking over his shoulder, he gazed down the shimmering Rose Line and couldn't help but smile.
There atop the main altar, propped open on a gilded book stand, sat an enormous leather-bound
Bible.
Up in the balcony, Sister Sandrine was shaking. Moments ago, she had been about to flee and carry
out her orders, when the man below suddenly removed his cloak. When she saw his alabaster-white
flesh, she was overcome with a horrified bewilderment. His broad, pale back was soaked with
blood-red slashes. Even from here she could see the wounds were fresh.
This man has been mercilessly whipped!
Job38：11《圣经》中的一节？这也太简略了，塞拉斯惊讶不已。他们所追寻的那个秘密地点竟由《圣经》的一节来揭示。隐修会的教友们不顾一切地掩饰真相！
《约伯记》第三十八章，十一节。
虽然塞拉斯背诵不出第十一节的内容，但他知道《约伯记》讲述的是一个上帝的信徒经历了种种考验，生存下来的故事。很符合实际情况，塞拉斯想着，抑制不住兴奋之情。
他低头看着闪光的玫瑰线，忍不住笑了起来。圣坛上支着一个金光闪闪的书架，书架上放着一本巨大的皮革封面的《圣经》。
桑德琳嬷嬷在唱诗班站台上不住地颤抖。几分钟前，当那个男人脱掉披风时，她正想逃走，去执行她的任务。当她看见他那雪白的肌肉时，感到无比震惊。他那宽厚而又苍白的后背上布满血红的伤痕。即使相距甚远，她也可以看出那都是新伤。
那个人被无情地鞭打过！
She also saw the bloody cilice around his thigh, the wound beneath it dripping. What kind of God
would want a body punished this way?The rituals of Opus Dei, Sister Sandrine knew, were not
something she would ever understand. But that was hardly her concern at this instant. Opus Dei is
searching for the keystone.How they knew of it, Sister Sandrine could not imagine, although she
knew she did not have time to think.
The bloody monk was now quietly donning his cloak again, clutching his prize as he moved toward
the altar, toward the Bible.
In breathless silence, Sister Sandrine left the balcony and raced down the hall to her quarters.
Getting on her hands and knees, she reached beneath her wooden bed frame and retrieved the
sealed envelope she had hidden there years ago.
她还看见他的大腿上缠着印着血迹的纱布，纱布下的伤口还在流血。什么样的神灵想让人的肉体受到这样的惩罚？桑德琳嬷嬷知道，她永远也无法理解天主事工会的宗教礼仪。但那不是她现在要考虑的事。天主事工会在寻找拱顶石。他们是怎么知道的，桑德琳嬷嬷想不到答案，也没有时间去想。
那个浑身血淋淋的僧侣又穿上披风，拿着他的战利品向着圣坛，向着《圣经》走去。
在一片死寂中，桑德琳嬷嬷离开了唱诗班站台，快速返回她的房间。她趴在地上，从木板床下摸出一个信封，拆开了封口。那个信封是她三年前就藏到那里的。
Tearing it open, she found four Paris phone numbers.
Trembling, she began to dial.
Downstairs, Silas laid the stone tablet on the altar and turned his eager hands to the leather Bible.
His long white fingers were sweating now as he turned the pages. Flipping through the Old
Testament, he found the Book of Job. He located chapter thirty-eight. As he ran his finger down the
column of text, he anticipated the words he was about to read.
They will lead the way!
Finding verse number eleven, Silas read the text. It was only seven words. Confused, he read it
again, sensing something had gone terribly wrong. The verse simply read:
HITHERTO SHALT THOU COME, BUT NO FURTHER.
打开信封后，她发现了四个巴黎市内的电话号码。
她用颤抖的手开始拨打电话。
楼下，塞拉斯将石板放到圣坛上，迫不及待地伸手去取《圣经》。当他翻阅书页时，那细长而苍白的手指渗出汗来。他从"旧约"部分翻出了《约伯记》，又找到了第三十八章。他一边用手指顺行向下指，一边猜想着他将会看到的文字。
那将为我们指路！
找到了第十一节，可那里面只有七个词。他不解地重读了一遍，感到大事不妙。这一节中只写着：你将到此，但切莫前行。
