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"I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were instituted."
"我不敢說(shuō)我已看出來(lái)了，也許他想在一旦有人對(duì)他的毀約行為提出起訴時(shí)借以否認(rèn)是自己的簽名。"
"No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, which should settle the matter.
"不，這不是問(wèn)題所在。不過(guò)，我要寫兩封信，這樣就能解決問(wèn)題。
One is to a firm in the City, the other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank,
一封給倫敦的一個(gè)商行；另一封給那位年輕小姐的繼父溫迪班克先生，
asking him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock to-morrow evening.
問(wèn)他明晚六點(diǎn)鐘能否跟我們?cè)诖艘?jiàn)面。
It is just as well that we should do business with the male relatives.
我們不妨跟男親屬打打交道。
And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem upon the shelf for the interim."
好吧，醫(yī)生，在未收到這兩封信的回音之前，我們沒(méi)有什么事情可做了，我們可以把這小小的問(wèn)題暫時(shí)放一放。"
I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action
我有很充分的理由相信我的朋友在行動(dòng)中是推理細(xì)致、精力過(guò)人的，
that I felt that he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy demeanour
所以他對(duì)于人家請(qǐng)他偵察這個(gè)奇特的疑案的那種胸有成竹、從容不迫的態(tài)度，
with which he treated the singular mystery which he had been called upon to fathom.
我想必定是很有根據(jù)的。
Once only had I known him to fail, in the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler photograph;
我知道他只失敗過(guò)一次，就是波希米亞國(guó)王和艾琳·艾德勒照片案；
but when I looked back to the weird business of 'The Sign of Four', and the extraordinary circumstances connected with 'A Study in Scarlet',
但是當(dāng)我回顧'四簽名'那種怪事以及與'血字的研究'聯(lián)系在一起很不尋常的情況時(shí)，
I felt that it would be a strange tangle indeed which he could not unravel.
我覺(jué)得如果連他都解決不了的話，那真是十分奧秘的疑案了。
I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe,
我離開(kāi)他時(shí)，他還仍然在抽著那只黑色的陶制煙斗，
with the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would find that
我相信明晚再來(lái)時(shí)就能發(fā)現(xiàn)，
he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland.
他已掌握了最終確證瑪麗·薩瑟蘭小姐的失蹤新郎到底是何許人的所有線索。
