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I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his process of deduction.
他解釋推理的過程是那么毫不費力，我不禁笑了起來。
"When I hear you give your reasons," I remarked,
"聽你講這些推理時，"我說，
"the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself,
"事情仿佛總是顯得那么簡單，幾乎簡單到了可笑的程度，甚至我自己也能推理，
though at each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you explain your process.
在你解釋推理過程之前，我對你推理的下一步的每一情況總是感到迷惑不解。
And yet I believe that my eyes are as good as yours."
但我還是覺得我的眼力不比你的差。"
"Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing himself down into an armchair.
"的確如此，"他點燃了一支香煙，全身舒展地倚靠在扶手椅上，回答道，
"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.
"你是在看而不是在觀察。這二者之間的區別是很清楚的。
For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room."
比如說，你常看到從下面大廳到這間屋子的梯級吧？"
"Frequently." "How often?"
"經常看到的。" "多少次了？"
"Well, some hundreds of times." "Then how many are there?" "How many? I don't know."
"嗯，不下于幾百次吧。" "那么，有多少梯級？" "多少梯級？我不知道。"
"Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point.
"那就對啦！因為你沒有觀察，而只是看嘛。這恰恰是我要指出的要害所在。
Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.
你瞧，我知道共有十七個梯級。因為我不但看而且觀察了。
By the way, since you are interested in these little problems,
順便說說，由于你對這些小問題有興趣，
and since you are good enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you may be interested in this."
又由于你善于把我的一兩個小經驗記錄下來，你對這個東西也許會感興趣的。"
He threw over a sheet of thick, pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table.
他把一直放在他桌子上的一張粉紅色的厚厚的便條紙扔了過來。
"It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud."
"這是最近一班郵差送來的，"他說，"你大聲地念念看。"
