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We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of papers which Holmes had brought with him.
在車廂里，除了福爾摩斯隨身帶來的一大卷亂七八糟的報紙外，只有我們兩個乘客。
Among these he rummaged and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until we were past Reading.
他在這些報紙里東翻西找，然后閱讀，有時記點筆記，有時沉默深思，直到我們已經過了雷丁為止。
Then he suddenly rolled them all into a gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack.
接著，他忽然把所有報紙卷成一大捆，扔到行李架上。
"Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked.
"你聽說過有關這個案子的任何情況嗎？"他問道。
"Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days."
"一無所聞。我有好幾天沒有看報紙了。"
"The London press has not had very full accounts.
"倫敦出版的報紙的報道都不很詳細。
I have just been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the particulars.
我一直在看最近的報紙，想掌握一些具體情況。
It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult."
據我推測，這件案子好象是那種極難偵破的簡單案件之一。"
"That sounds a little paradoxical."
"這話聽起來有點自相矛盾。"
"But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a clue.
"但這是一個意味深長的真理。異?，F象幾乎總是可以為你提供線索。
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
可是，一個越是毫無特征和平平常常的罪行，就越是難以確實證明它是某個人所犯的。
In this case, however, they have established a very serious case against the son of the murdered man."
然而，這個案件，他們已經認定是一起兒子謀殺父親的嚴重案件。"
"It is a murder, then?" "Well, it is conjectured to be so.
"這么說，那是個謀殺案了？"
I shall take nothing for granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into it.
"唔，他們是這樣猜想的。在我有機會親自偵查這個案件之前，我決不會想當然地肯定是這樣。
I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have been able to understand it, in a very few words."
我現在就把我到目前為止所能了解到的情況，簡短地給你說一下。"
