我们一想起侦探,第一个想到的就是夏洛克·福尔摩斯。甚至在距离关于他的第一个故事已一百多年的今天,他仍然是我们心中伟大的侦探。游客们仍然会到伦敦的贝克街去看他的公寓。有很多关于他的电影和图片——我们都知道他的样子,知道他穿什么衣服。 When we think of a detective, we think first of Sherlock Holmes. Even now, more than a hundred years after the first story about him, he is still the greatest detective of all. Tourists still go to Baker Street, in London, to see the place where he had his flat. There are films about him, pictures of him — we all know what he looked like, we all know what kind of clothes he wore. 但是他从来就没存在过。他的故事仅仅是故事而已,那么我们为什么记住他了呢? And yet he never existed. The stories about him are just stories. So, why do we remember him? 因为他喜欢抓罪犯。夏洛克·福尔摩斯追踪罪犯就像猎人追踪狐狸一样。他像猎犬和警犬一样,鼻子贴在地上——追踪罪犯到世界的尽头。罪犯可能试图藏匿——但只要夏洛克·福尔摩斯开始追踪,我们就知道他终会成功。 It is because he loves catching criminals. Sherlock Holmes chases the criminal as a hunter chases a fox. He is a bloodhound, a police dog, with his nose to the ground following the criminal to the end of the world. The criminal may try to hide — but when Sherlock Holmes has started the chase, we know that he will finish it with a 'kill'.
That evening Holmes again wore different clothes, and a large, black hat. But it was not just the clothes that were different. He changed his face, his hair — everything. He was a different man.
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我们一起走到瑟芬泰恩街。那房子外面有很多人在抽烟、说笑。福尔摩斯和我在房子前面走来走去。
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We walked together to Serpentine Avenue. Outside the house there were a lot of people who were smoking, laughing and talking. Holmes and I walked up and down in front of the house.
You see,’ said Holmes to me, ’I think she doesn’t want her new husband to see the photograph. But where is it? At her bank? No. Women like to keep important things themselves. I’m sure it’s in her house.’
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“但是国王的手下已经试图找过了!”我说。
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But the King’s men tried to find it!’ I said.
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“没错,但是他们不知道去哪儿找!”福尔摩斯说。
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Yes, but they didn’t know where to look!’ said Holmes.
Just then a taxi arrived. One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him. Other men were also pushing and shouting, and a fight began. Irene Norton was in the middle of it, but SherlockHolmes ran to help her. Then suddenly he fell to the ground, with blood running down his face. Irene Norton hurried to her front door, but she looked back. ’How kind of him to help me! Is the poor man hurt?’ she called.
Some people carried Holmes into the house. I waited outside the window and watched. I saw how beautiful Irene Norton was. Then Holmes put up his hand, and I threw the smoke-stick into the room. Immediately the people in the street and in the house all began to shout ’Fire!’ very loudly. The house was full of smoke. I walked away, and ten minutes later Holmes came to meet me.
It’s easy,’ he said, and laughed. ’You saw all those people in the street? I paid them to help us. It wasn’t a real fight and the blood wasn’t real. When people shout "Fire!", a woman runs to the most important thing in her house, her baby, her gold, or...a photograph. Mrs Norton ran to find her photograph, which is in a cupboard in the sitting-room. 1 saw it. But I did not take it. Tomorrow we will go to her house with the King. We’ll go very early, before she gets up. The King himself can take the photograph from the cupboard. And then we’ll go.’
While Holmes was talking, we were walking home to Baker Street. When we arrived at my friend’s house, a young man hurried past us, and said: ’Good night, Mr Sherlock Holmes.’
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“我以前听过那个声音,”福尔摩斯对我说。他沿街看去。“但那是谁呢?”
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I’ve heard that voice before,’ said Holmes to me. He looked down the street. ’But who was it?’