M:Quite the body count you're stacking up.She was tortured first. As you'd already killed her husband, she must have been the only one left to question. Did she know anything that could compromise you?

Bond: No.

M: Not your name? What you were after?

Bond: No.

M: Dimitrios worked as middle-man. Always knew how to put his hand on weapons and people who could use them. He worked with anyone who had money. For years he was involved with a man we knew as Le Chiffre, private banker to the world's terrorists. He invested their money and gave them access to it wherever they wanted.. Oh good, you're here. Albanian, we believe. Chess prodigy¹, a bit of a mathematical genius and liked to prove it by playing poker².

Bond: Ow. So you can keep an eye on me?

M: Yes. When they analyzed³ the stock market after 9/11, the CIA discovered a massive shorting of airlines stocks. When the stocks hit bottom on 9/12, somebody made a fortune. The same thing happened this morning with Skyfleet stock, or was supposed to. With their prototype destroyed, the company would be near bankruptcy⁴. Instead, somebody lost over 100 million dollars betting the wrong way.

Bond: You think it's this man, Le Chiffre?

M: Which would explain how he could set up a high stakes poker game at Casino Royale in Montenegro. Ten players, $10 million buy in, five million re-buy. Winner takes all, potentially one hundred fifty million.

Bond: Good, then we'll know where he'll be. Do you want a clean kill or do you want to send a message?

M: We want him alive. Le Chiffre doesn't have a hundred million to lose.

Bond: He must have been playing the stock market with his client's funds. They're not going to be too happy when they find out it's gone.

M: We can't let him win this game. If he loses, he will have nowhere to run; we'll give him sanctuary⁵ in return for everything he knows. I'm putting you in the game, replacing someone who's playing for a syndicate. According to Villiers, you're the best player in the service. Trust me, I wish it wasn't the case. I would ask you if you could remain emotionally detached, but I don't think that's your problem, is it Bond?

Bond: No.

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. Quite the body count you're stacking up.

M 这句话的意思是"Bond is killing⁶ lots of people."Body count "尸体的数量"。Stack 指的是"堆成堆"。

2. Be involved with

这个片语也写作 get involved with，意思是"Become associated, especially in an emotional or sexual way和……有关系"，例如：He joined the company last year but never really got involved in the work.

3. Hit bottom

这个片语也写作touch bottom，意思是"Reach the worst or lowest point"，例如： When wheat prices touch bottom, the farmers will be up in arms （武装斗争）.

4. High stakes

Stake 指的是"赌博中的赌金"，high stakes 指的是"高额赌金"。

此外，stake 还可以做动词，表示"赌，下注"，例如：I'd stake my all on it.

5. Clean kill

A clean kill is a killing without lots of attention being attracted, something that is quiet and doesn't attract attention to the killer⁷.

6. Play the market

"以赚钱为目的的有价证券交易"，例如：He is always playing the market with only mixed results.

7. In the service

指的是"服役"，Bond 是在MI6, British intelligence工作的。