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"I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes.
"福爾摩斯先生，我永遠不希望再見到那樣的情景了。
From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement.
頭發顏色深淺不一的人來自東西南北、四面八方，涌到城里按那個廣告去應征。
Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
艦隊街擠滿了紅頭發的人群，主教院看上去就象叫賣水果的小販放滿廣柑的手推車。
I should not have thought there were so many in the whole country as were brought together by that single advertisement.
我沒有想到區區一個廣告竟然召集到了全國的那么多人。
Every shade of colour they were–straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay;
他們頭發的顏色什么都有--稻草黃色、檸檬色、橙色、磚紅色、愛爾蘭長毛獵狗那種顏色、肝色、土黃色等等。
but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.
但是，正如斯波爾丁所說的那樣，真正很鮮艷的火紅色的倒不多。
When I saw how many were waiting, I would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear of it.
當我看到那么多的人在等著，我感到很失望，真想放棄算了。只是，斯波爾丁當時怎么也不答應。
How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd,
我真不能想象他當時是怎樣連推帶搡，帶我從人群中擠過去，
and right up to the steps which led to the office.
直到那辦公室的臺階前面。
There was a double stream upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back dejected;
樓梯上有兩股人潮，一些人滿懷希望往上走，一些人垂頭喪氣往下走；
but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found ourselves in the office."
我們竭盡全力擠進人群。不久，我們發現自己已經在辦公室里了。"
"Your experience has been a most entertaining one,"
"你的這段經歷真是最有趣不過了。
remarked Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge pinch of snuff.
福爾摩斯先生在他的委托人停了一下、使勁地吸了一下鼻煙、以便稍加思索的時候說，
"Pray continue your very interesting statement."
"請你繼續講你的這段十分有趣的事吧。"
