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It was a singular sight which met our eyes.
出現在我們眼前的是一幅奇特的景象。
On the table stood a darklantern with the shutter half open,
桌上放著一盞遮光燈，遮光板半開著，
throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar.
一道亮光照到柜門半開的鐵保險柜上。
Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott, clad in a long gray dressing-gown,
桌上旁邊的那把木椅上，坐著格里姆斯比·羅伊洛特醫生，他身上披著一件長長的灰色睡衣，
his bare ankles protruding beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers.
睡衣下面露出一雙赤裸的腳脖子，兩腳套在紅色土耳其無跟拖鞋里。
Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we had noticed during the day.
膝蓋上橫搭著我們白天看到的那把短柄長鞭子。
His chin was cocked upward and his eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the ceiling.
他的下巴向上翹起，他的一雙眼睛恐怖地、僵直地盯著天花板的角落。
Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his head.
他的額頭上繞著一條異樣的、帶有褐色斑點的黃帶子，那條帶子似乎緊緊地纏在他的頭上。
As we entered he made neither sound nor motion.
我們走進去的時候，他既沒有作聲，也沒有動一動。
"The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes.
"帶子！帶斑點的帶子！"福爾摩斯壓低了聲音說。
I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began to move,
我向前跨了一步。只見他那條異樣的頭飾開始蠕動起來，
and there reared itself from among his hair the squat diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent.
從他的頭發中間昂然鉆出一條又粗又短、長著鉆石型的頭部和脹鼓鼓的脖子、令人惡心的毒蛇。
