A Study in Scarlet — Page 6
「如果你跟他处不来，你不能怪我，」他说，「我对他的了解，不过是偶尔在实验室碰面时得来的那些。这个安排是你提出来的，所以你不能让我负责。」
"You mustn't blame me if you don't get on with him," he said; "I know nothing more of him than I have learned from meeting him occasionally in the laboratory. You proposed this arrangement, so you must not hold me responsible."
「如果我们处不来，分开就是了，」我回答道。「斯坦福，」我补充说，目光紧盯着我的同伴，「我觉得你有什么理由想撇清这件事。那个人的脾气真的那么可怕吗？还是有别的原因？别含糊其辞了。」
"If we don't get on it will be easy to part company," I answered. "It seems to me, Stamford," I added, looking hard at my companion, "that you have some reason for washing your hands of the matter. Is this fellow's temper so formidable, or what is it? Don't be mealy-mouthed about it."
「有些事情难以言说，」他笑着回答。「福尔摩斯对科学的热情，在我看来有点过头了——近乎冷酷无情。我可以想象他会给朋友一小撮最新发现的植物碱，不是出于恶意，你要明白，而纯粹是出于探究的精神，为了准确了解其效果。说句公道话，我想他自己也会以同样的坦然服下那东西。他似乎对确切而精准的知识有一种狂热。」
"It is not easy to express the inexpressible," he answered with a laugh. "Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes—it approaches to cold-bloodedness. I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects. To do him justice, I think that he would take it himself with the same readiness. He appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge."
「这很对。」
"Very right too."
「是的，但这种热情可能会走向极端。当他开始用棍子敲打解剖室里的尸体时，这就确实变得相当古怪了。」
"Yes, but it may be pushed to excess. When it comes to beating the subjects in the dissecting-rooms with a stick, it is certainly taking rather a bizarre shape."
「敲打尸体！」
"Beating the subjects!"
「是的，为了验证人死后还能不能产生瘀伤。我亲眼看见他这么做的。」
"Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes.
Vocabulary
- mustn't
- 禁止或不应该做某事的否定情态动词
- blame
- 责怪、归咎于某人某事
- get on with
- 与某人相处融洽、关系和睦
- occasionally
- 偶尔、有时，不经常地
- laboratory
- 实验室，进行科学实验的专用场所
- proposed
- 提出、建议，propose的过去式
- arrangement
- 安排、协议，双方商定的计划
- responsible
- 负责任的、应承担责任的形容词
- part company
- 分道扬镳、与某人分开不再同行
- companion
- 同伴、伙伴，一起出行的人
- washing your hands
- 撇清关系、不再介入某事
- temper
- 脾气、性情，尤指易怒的性格
- formidable
- 令人生畏的、难以对付的形容词
- mealy-mouthed
- 说话拐弯抹角、不敢直言的形容词
- inexpressible
- 难以言表的、无法用语言描述的形容词
- scientific
- 科学的、与科学相关的形容词
- tastes
- 品味、兴趣爱好，个人的偏好
- approaches
- 接近、趋向某种状态或程度
- cold-bloodedness
- 冷酷无情、缺乏感情的性格特征
- imagine
- 想象、设想某种情况或场景
- pinch
- 少量，一小撮（粉末等）
- latest
- 最新的、最近发现的形容词
- alkaloid
- 生物碱，植物中提取的含氮化合物
- malevolence
- 恶意、恶毒，希望他人受伤害的心理
- spirit
- 精神、态度，做事的动机或心态
- inquiry
- 探究、调查，对某事进行研究
- accurate
- 准确的、精确的形容词
- effects
- 效果、作用，某原因产生的结果
- do justice
- 公正评价、如实对待某人某事
- readiness
- 愿意、准备好接受某事的状态
- passion
- 热情、强烈的爱好或情感
- definite
- 明确的、确定的形容词
- exact
- 精确的、严格准确的形容词
- knowledge
- 知识、学问，了解掌握的信息
- excess
- 过度、极端，超过正常限度
- beating
- 敲打、捶打，对物体施加打击
- subjects
- 实验对象，接受实验或研究的对象
- dissecting-rooms
- 解剖室，进行尸体解剖的专用房间
- stick
- 棍棒、手杖，用于敲打的细长物
- certainly
- 确实、肯定地，表示确定的副词
- rather
- 相当、颇为，表示程度的副词
- bizarre
- 奇异的、怪诞的，令人感到奇怪的
- Beating
- 敲打、捶打，对物体施加重复打击
- verify
- 验证、核实，证明某事是否属实
- how far
- 到什么程度，询问程度或范围
- bruises
- 淤伤、瘀青，皮肤受击后的伤痕
- death
- 死亡，生命终止的状态
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