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At that moment the door bell rang. It was the driver of the bearded man's taxi.
這時門鈴響了。來者是蓄胡子的那人乘坐的那輛出租馬車的車夫。
"I got a message that you wanted to see me," said the driver. 'I hope there's nothing wrong."
“我接到通知說您想見我，”車夫說道。“我希望我沒有什么做錯之處。”
"No, no, my good man," said Holmes. "In fact I'll give you some money if you can answer my questions clearly. Tell me all about the man in your taxi this morning.
“沒有，沒有，好伙計。”福爾摩斯說道。“如果你能清楚地回答我的問題，事實上我就會給你一些錢。告訴我今早乘坐你的馬車的那個人的所有情況。
He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it."
他在10點時監視這幢房子，后來又讓你尾隨從這兒出來的兩位紳士來著。”
The taxi driver was surprised at how much Holmes seemed to know. He answered: "The man told me that he was a detective, and that I should say nothing about him to anyone."
車夫對福爾摩斯看似掌握了很多情況而感到驚詫。他回答道：“那人曾對我說他是位偵探，還對我說不許對任何人講關于他的事情。”
"This is a serious business," said Holmes, "and you will be in trouble if you try to hide anything. What can you tell me?"
“這是一件很嚴重的事情，”福爾摩斯說道。“如果你想對我隱瞞什么的話，你就要倒霉了。你能告訴我什么呢？”
"The man told me his name," said the driver.
“這人告訴了我他的名字，”車夫說道。
Holmes looked like a man who has just won an important game. "That was not very clever of him," he said. "What was his name?"
福爾摩斯就像剛剛贏得了一場重大比賽的人一樣。“那他可真不太精明，”他說道。“他（說他）叫什么名字啊？”
"His name," said the taxi driver, "was Sherlock Holmes."
“他的名字，”車夫說道，“是歇洛克·福爾摩斯。”
I have never seen my friend look more surprised Then he laughed loudly. "Tell me where be got into your taxi and everything that happened."
我從來沒有看到我的朋友那樣吃驚過。然后，他縱聲大笑起來。“告訴我他在什么地方搭上你的車的以及都發生了些什么事情。”
We already knew most of what the taxi driver told us. But we learned that after we had lost sight of the taxi, it had gone to Waterloo Station, where the man had caught his train.
車夫告訴我們的大多數事情我們都已經知道了。可是我們還得知，在我們那時看不見了馬車之后，馬車去了滑鐵盧車站，那個人在那兒上了火車。
The taxi driver said that the man was well-dressed and had a black beard and pale face．He was about forty and not very tall．The driver did not know the colour of the man's eyes．
車夫說那人衣著考究，留著黑胡須，臉色蒼白。他大約四十歲年紀，身材不算太高。車夫不知道那人的眼珠的顏色。
Holmes gave the man a pound, and sent him away. Then he said:
福爾摩斯給了他一英鎊，然后把他打發走了。接著他說道：
"We have a very clever enemy, Watson. He is winning the game at the moment. We have no answers at all to the strange things that have happened in London.
“我們這次搞上了個狡猾的對手，華生。目前來看他是贏了。我們對在倫敦發生的那些怪事毫無答案。
I hope you are more successful at Baskerville Hal, but I am not happy about sending you there. There is too much danger in this case."
我希望你在巴斯克維爾莊園要順當些，可是派你去那兒我可真是不放心。這宗案子有著太多的危險。”
