The Da Vinci Code
达·芬奇密码

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective novel written by American writer Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris, when they become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene. The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the finding of the first murder victim in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man , with a cryptic message written beside his body and a pentagram drawn on his chest in his own blood.
《达·芬奇密码》是美国作家丹·布朗2003年出版的侦探悬疑小说。小说讲述的是符号学专家罗伯特·兰登与密码破译天才索菲·奈芙，在对巴黎卢浮宫博物馆的凶杀案调查中，意外卷入郇山隐修会与侍奉天主会关于耶稣基督与抹大拉的玛利亚是否结婚的争斗漩涡。小说标题暗示的众多线索之一，出现在卢浮宫艺术大画廊里发现的第一名受害人身上。该死尸全身赤裸，四肢被摆成达·芬奇著名画作《维特鲁威人》的样子。他的身旁留下一条秘密信息，死者的血还被用来在胸口画上五角星的符号。

Upon its publishing, the book has been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack on the Roman Catholic Church. It has also been consistently criticized for its historical and scientific inaccuracies. The novel nonetheless became a worldwide bestseller that sold eighty million copies as of 2009 and has been translated into forty-four languages. Combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, it is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. In November 2004, Random House published a special illustrated edition with one hundred and sixty illustrations. In 2006, a film adaptation was released by Sony's Columbia Pictures.
该书一经出版，众多基督教派猛烈抨击该书意在诋毁罗马天主教。对该书历史细节不实、科学知识不准确的批评也是不绝于耳。尽管如此，小说还是成为全球畅销读物，至2009年已卖出8000万本，被译成44种语言。该小说集合了侦探小说、惊悚小说、阴谋小说等多种体裁，是布朗关于罗伯特·兰登这个人物所写的第二部小说，第一部是2000年的作品《天使与魔鬼》。2004年11月兰登书屋出版了带有160幅插图的特制插图版，2006年索尼旗下的哥伦比亚影业公司发行了它的电影版。