We heaved it open and picked a piece of jagged cast metal off the linoleum and laid it politely on the woodstone drainboard, beside about nine empty gin bottles.

我们把它打开，从油毡上捡起一块参差不齐的铸造金属，礼貌地把它放在木石沥水板上，旁边放着大约九个空杜松子酒瓶。