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"It surprised me." "But, surely, it was obvious.
"這使我也感到驚奇。""可是一點不錯，這是很明顯的。
I was then much surprised and interested on glancing down to observe that,
我接著往下看去，很驚奇、又很感興趣地觀察到，
though the boots which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were really odd ones;
盡管她所穿的兩只靴子，并不是彼此不同的，而實際上卻不是一對。
the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and the other a plain one.
一只靴尖上有帶花紋的皮包頭，另一只卻沒有。
One was buttoned only in the two lower buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and fifth.
一只靴子的五個扣子中只扣了下面兩個，而另一只則扣上第一、第三和第五個扣子。
Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly dressed,
喏，當你看見一位青年婦女，穿戴得很整潔，
has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry."
但出門時卻穿著不配對的靴子，靴上扣子只扣上一半，那說明她離家時非常匆忙，這不能算是一個什么了不起的推論吧。"
"And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by my friend's incisive reasoning.
"還有呢？"我問道，我的朋友透徹的推理，經常引起我強烈的興趣。
"I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving home but after being fully dressed.
"順便說一說，我注意到她在走出家門之前寫了一張字條，但是這張紙條是在穿戴好了之后寫的。
You observed that her right glove was torn at the forefinger,
你觀察到她右手套的食指那個地方破了，
but you did not apparently see that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink.
不過你顯然沒有看到手套和食指都沾了紫色墨水。
She had written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep.
她寫得很匆忙，蘸墨水時筆插得太深了。
It must have been this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger.
事情一定發生在今晨，否則墨跡不會清晰地留在手指上。
All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back to business, Watson.
這一切雖然都很簡單，但卻很有趣。不過我得回到正題上來，華生。
Would you mind reading me the advertised description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?"
給我念一念尋找霍斯默·安吉爾先生的那個啟事好嗎？"
