CAB - Costa's Audio Book Anniversary Release Dan Brown 'Angels & Demons' 25th Anniversary 《讀你聽2.2》周年紀念呈獻 丹布朗第二部暢銷懸疑《天使與魔鬼》二十五周年紀念 是爲《達文西密碼》前傳 主角 Robert Langdon教授首度登場 故事圍繞古老組織光明會 與羅馬天主教會之間百年宿怨 本作迄今銷量將近四千萬本 翻譯四十多種語言 小説多次觸及敏感議題 如反物質研究 光明會 雙向圖烙印 科學和宗教的道德衝突 内容混合了事實和虛構 注意涉及陰謀論 容易造成誤導 32-40 00:27 蘭登和Vittoria乘直升機抵達梵蒂岡 正值教宗選舉 兩人意識到整個天主教會領導層正處於危機之中 選舉主持Mortati發現四名重要樞機主教失蹤 在瑞士衛隊辦公室 指揮官Olivetti無視兩人的警告 將他們禁閉在辦公室 Vittoria奮起打直綫給總務卿Carlo Ventresca 他命令 指揮官帶他們過來 兩人解釋了反物質威脅 Olivetti仍然懷疑 直至接到炸彈威脅 Ventresca要求徹底搜索梵蒂岡 緊張加劇 來電者仍在線上 不理警指揮忠告 Ventresca堅持與恐怖分子對話 Main Characters Robert Langdon - A professor of symbology at Harvard University and protagonist, flown to CERN to help investigate the murder of Leonardo Vetra Maximilian Kohler - Director of CERN, invites Langdon to investigate the murder case; he blames the Church for his disability, for his highly religious parents deny him medical care as a child and becomes a scientist as a way to rebel Hassassin - A killer hired by Janus, of Middle Eastern origin and displays sadistic lust for women; he murders Leonardo Vetra Janus - Mysterious character who hires Hassassin to murder Vetra to uncover his secret antimatter project Vittoria Vetra - The adopted daughter of Vetra, like her father, she works with CERN; skilled in biology and physics, she worked with her father in their research of antimatter Cardinal Mortati - Most senior cardinal in the conclave, and the current Dean of the College of Cardinals Commander Olivetti - Commandant of the Swiss Guard, skeptical about the claims of antimatter annihilation Carlo Ventresca - Camerlengo/papal chamberlain during the Conclave, the rightful ruler of Vatican during the interim Others (order by mention) Leonardo Vetra the physicist, the Pilot, Georges Charpak the Nobel Prize inventor, Bob Brownell, Sylvie Baudeloque Costa's Lexicon Garish adj obtrusively bright and showy, lurid 過分鮮艶 花哨 Canton n a subdivision of a country established for political or administrative purposes 行政區 州 (Can ten) Maniacal adj exhibiting extremely wild or violent behaviour (men Nye acal) Hopi n a member of a Pueblo people living chiefly in north-eastern Arizona (hope py) Trompe-l'œil - fr an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface 視覺陷阱 Cupola n a rounded dome forming or adorning a roof or ceiling 穹頂 (Cue pola) Conclave n (in the Roman Catholic Church) the assembly of cardinals for the election of a pope; a private meeting Fresco v painting on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling 濕壁畫 Papal adj relating to a pope or to the papacy 教宗相關 (Pay pel) Anachronism n a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned 不合時宜 (en NAC kron nism) Il comandante vuole vederli subito - The commander wants to see them immediately Ramrod n (US) a foreman or manager, especially one who is a strict disciplinarian Nicolaus Copernicus - a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center Regalia n the emblems or insignia of royalty, especially the crown, sceptre, and other ornaments used at a coronation 盛裝 禮服 (re Gay lia) Presupposition n a thing tacitly assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action 推定 推測 假定 Pazzo - ita crazy Rococo adj denoting furniture or architecture characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork (roe Coe coe) Frieze n a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling; heavy, coarse woollen cloth with a nap, usually on one side only 簷壁飾帶 (freeze) Beatific adj feeling or expressing blissful happiness 極樂 天使般 (be a Tif fic) Ferreting n rummage about in a place or container in search of something; discover information by means of an assiduous search or investigation; the activity of hunting with ferrets, typically for rabbits 四處搜尋 Triangulation n (in surveying) the tracing and measurement of a series or network of triangles in order to determine the ...