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"But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion?
"你已經(jīng)看過了證詞。你已經(jīng)有了某一些結論了吧？
Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself think that he is innocent?"
你沒有看出其中有漏洞和毛病嗎？難道你自己不認為他是無辜的嗎？"
"I think that it is very probable."
"我想很可能是無辜的。"
"There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes."
她把頭往后一仰，以輕蔑的眼光看著雷斯垂德大聲地說："好啦！你注意聽著！他給了我希望。"
Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said.
雷斯垂德聳了聳肩。他說："我看我的同事結論下得太輕率了吧。"
"But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did it.
"但是，他是正確的。噢！我知道他是正確的。詹姆斯決沒有干這種事。
And about his quarrel with his father,
至于他和他父親爭吵的原因，
I am sure that the reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I was concerned in it."
我敢肯定，他之所以不愿意對驗尸官講是因為這牽涉到我。"
"In what way?" asked Holmes.
福爾摩斯問道："那是怎樣牽涉到你的呢？"
"It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had many disagreements about me.
"時間已不允許我再有任何隱瞞了。詹姆斯和他父親為了我的緣故有很大分歧。
Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that there should be a marriage between us.
麥卡錫先生氣切希望我們結婚。
James and I have always loved each other as brother and sister;
我和詹姆斯從小就象兄妹一樣相愛。
but of course he is young and has seen very little of life yet, and...and...well, he naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet.
當然，他還年輕，缺乏生活經(jīng)驗，而且...而且...唔，他自然還不想現(xiàn)在馬上結婚。
So there were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them."
所以他們吵了起來。我肯定這是吵架的原因之一。"
"And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a union?"
福爾摩斯問道："那你的父親呢？他同意這門親事嗎？"
"No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in favour of it."
"不，他也反對。贊成的只有麥卡錫先生一個人。"
