If she had called up half an hour earlier I might have been sore enough to beat the hell out of Steinitz-except that he had been dead for fifty years and the chess game was out of a book.

如果她早半小时打来电话，我可能会气得把斯坦尼茨打个精光——除非他已经死了五十年，而且棋局已经从书本上消失了。