【薄荷阅读】福尔摩斯探案2 chapter1

【前情回顾】：

即便你精心设计，也逃不过福尔摩斯的眼睛。

【今日翻译】：

I had called upon(拜访) my friend, Mr(先生). Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year,
and found him in deep conversation with a red-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery(火一般的) red hair.
I was about to leave when Holmes pulled me into the room and closed the door behind me.
去年秋天，我拜访了我的朋友，Sherlock Holmes（福尔摩斯）先生。然后发现他当时正与一位红头发红脸的老先生交谈。
看到此情此景，我正准备离开，Holmes把我拽进了屋子关上了门。

“You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Watson,” he said, obviously very happy to see me.
“I was afraid that you were busy.”
“So I am. Very much so.”
“Then I can wait in the next room.”
“Not at all. Mr(先生). Wilson, Doctor Watson here has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases.”
“Watson（华生），你来的正是时候。”他很愉快的看着我。（激情四射）
“我看你正在忙。”
“嗯嗯，是挺忙的。”
“那我可以在隔壁等等的。”
“不不不完全不用。Wilson先生，Watson医生是我的一位伙伴，并且在我的案件侦查中给我了很大的帮助。”

The gentleman half rose from his chair to greet me.
“I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is outside the normal routine(惯例，常规) of everyday life.
You have shown your relish(乐趣，喜爱) for it by the enthusiasm which has prompted(促使) you to write down and,
if I may say so, somewhat to embellish(对...加以渲染) so many of my own little adventures.”
那位先生半起来跟我打招呼。
“我知道，我亲爱的Watson，你跟我一样，对日常生活之外的稀奇古怪感兴趣。从你把这些事情记下来就能看出你有多喜欢这些，然后，不要脸的说，这甚至是对我的冒险生涯的添砖加彩。”

“Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me,” I replied.
“You will remember my saying the other day,
that for strange effects and extraordinary events,
we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
“I remember being brave enough to express some doubts.”
“实在是你的这些事儿太吸引人了。”我回复。
“你应该还记得那天我说的，
对于奇怪的影响，和非凡新奇的事件，
我们必须走入生活本身，这可比单是去想象要有勇气的多了。”
“啊，我记得我当时还有勇气提出了不同意见。”

“You did, Doctor, but I shall keep on finding more and more examples until you finally agree that I am right.
Now, Mr(先生). Jabez Wilson here has begun a narrative(故事，叙事) which promises to be(可能是) one of the most unusual that I have listened to for some time.
You have heard me remark that the strangest examples are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes,
and occasionally occur in cases where there is room for doubt as to whether there has been a crime at all.
“恩是的，医生，不过我会用大量的例子来谁服你同意我是对的。
现在，Jabez Wilson先生是来说一件事情的，这事情是我目前听到的最怪异的故事之一。
你也听我说过，那些很怪异的事情往往不是和什么大型案件有关，经常是小型犯罪扯出来的联系。
有时候甚至会让人怀疑这是否是犯罪。