The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Page 2

精密仪器中的沙砾，或是他自己高倍镜片上的一道裂痕，都不会比一个强烈的情感对他这种性格的人造成更大的干扰。

Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.

然而，对他而言，天下只有一个女人，那便是已故的艾琳·艾德勒——一个声名暧昧、令人生疑的女子。

And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

近来我与福尔摩斯来往甚少。

I had seen little of Holmes lately.

我的婚姻使我们渐渐疏远。

My marriage had drifted us away from each other.

我自己完满的幸福，以及一个男人初次成为自己家庭主人时油然而生的那些以家为中心的种种牵挂，足以占据我全部的心神。

My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention.

而福尔摩斯，这个以整个波西米亚灵魂憎恶一切社交形式的人，则留在贝克街我们的旧居，埋首于他的旧书堆中，一周周地在可卡因与雄心壮志之间交替往返——时而沉溺于毒品带来的昏昏欲睡，时而又爆发出他敏锐本性所特有的那股猛烈的精力。

while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

他一如既往，对犯罪研究有着深厚的兴趣，并将他那超凡的才智与卓越的观察力运用于追踪线索、破解那些已被官方警察视为无望而搁置的谜案之上。

He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police.

我时不时地听到一些关于他行踪的模糊消息：他应召赴敖德萨处理特雷波夫谋杀案，他在亭可马里侦破了阿特金森兄弟那桩离奇的惨案，最后还有他为荷兰王室极为出色且圆满地完成的那项使命。

From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.