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This concluded the examination of the witness.
對證人的審訊到此結束。
"I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy.
我一面看這個專欄一面說，"我覺得驗尸官最后說的那幾句話對小麥卡錫相當嚴厲。
He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his father having signalled to him before seeing him,
他有理由來提醒證人注意供詞中相互矛盾的地方，那就是他父親還沒有見到他時就給他發出信號；
also to his refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and his singular account of his father's dying words.
他還要求證人注意，他拒絕交代他和他父親談話的細節，以及他在敘述死者臨終前說的話時所講的那些奇特的話。
They are all, as he remarks, very much against the son."
他說，所有這一切都是對這個兒子十分不利的。"
Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon the cushioned seat.
福爾摩斯暗自好笑。他伸著腿半躺在軟墊靠椅上。
"Both you and the coroner have been at some pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the young man's favour.
他說："你和驗尸官都力圖突出最有說服力的要點，使之對這個年輕人不利。
Don't you see that you alternately give him credit for having too much imagination and too little?
可是難道你還不明白，你時而說這個年輕人想象力太豐富，時而又說他太缺乏想象力，這是什么意思呢？
Too little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would give him the sympathy of the jury;
太缺乏想象力，因為他未能編造他和他父親吵架的原因來博得陪審團的同情；
too much, if he evolved from his own inner consciousness anything so outre as a dying reference to a rat,
想象力太豐富，因為從他自己的內在感官發出了夸大其詞的所謂死者臨終前提及的'拉特'的怪叫聲，
and the incident of the vanishing cloth.
還有那忽然間不見了的衣服。
No, sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what this young man says is true,
不是這樣的，先生，我將從這個年輕人所說的是實情這樣一個觀點出發去處理這個案子，
and we shall see whither that hypothesis will lead us.
我們看看這一假設能把我們引到哪里。
And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the scene of action.
這是我的彼特拉克詩集袖珍本，你拿去看吧。我在親臨作案現場之前，不想再說一句關于這個案子的話了。
We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be there in twenty minutes."
我們去斯溫登吃午飯。我看我們在二十分鐘內就可以到那里。"
