The Hound of the Baskervilles — Page 9
我几乎没想到会看到如此长颅型的头骨，或如此明显的眶上脊发育。
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
您介意我用手指沿着您的顶骨裂缝摸一摸吗？
Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?
先生，在得到真品之前，您头骨的模型将是任何人类学博物馆的珍贵陈列品。
A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum.
我无意奉承，但我坦承我非常渴望得到您的头骨。
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
夏洛克·福尔摩斯挥手示意这位奇异的访客坐下。
Sherlock Holmes waved our strange visitor into a chair.
他说道："我看出来了，先生，您在自己的研究领域是个狂热者，正如我在我的领域一样。"
"You are an enthusiast in your line of thought, I perceive, sir, as I am in mine," said he.
"我从您的食指观察到，您自己卷烟抽。请不必犹豫，点上一支吧。"
"I observe from your forefinger that you make your own cigarettes. Have no hesitation in lighting one."
那人取出烟纸和烟草，以令人惊讶的灵巧将两者卷在一起。
The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in the other with surprising dexterity.
他有一双细长、微微颤抖的手指，像昆虫的触角一样灵活而不停颤动。
He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennæ of an insect.
福尔摩斯沉默不语，但他那敏锐的目光让我看出他对这位奇特的同伴所怀有的兴趣。
Holmes was silent, but his little darting glances showed me the interest which he took in our curious companion.
他最终说道："我想，先生，您昨晚和今天再度光临，不仅仅是为了检查我的头骨吧？"
"I presume, sir," said he at last, "that it was not merely for the purpose of examining my skull that you have done me the honour to call here last night and again today?"
"不，先生，不是的；尽管我很高兴也有机会做了那件事。
"No, sir, no; though I am happy to have had the opportunity of doing that as well.
福尔摩斯先生，我来找您，是因为我认识到自己是个不切实际的人，而且我突然面临一个极为严重而不寻常的难题。"
I came to you, Mr. Holmes, because I recognized that I am myself an unpractical man and because I am suddenly confronted with a most serious and extraordinary problem."
Vocabulary
- had
- 过去式，表示拥有或经历过某事
- hardly
- 几乎不，几乎没有
- expected
- 预期，期望
- so
- 所以，因此
- skull
- 头骨，骷髅
- or
- 或者，或
- such
- 这样的，如此的
- well
- 好地，很好地
- marked
- 明显的，显著的
- development
- 发展，发育，进展
- Would
- 过去式助动词，表示条件或礼貌
- you
- 你，你们
- have
- 有，拥有
- any
- 任何，任何一个
- objection
- 反对，异议
- to
- 到，向，朝向
- my
- 我的，属于我
- running
- 跑步，运行，流动
- finger
- 手指，指点
- along
- 沿着，一起
- your
- 你的，你们的
- fissure
- 裂缝，裂隙
- cast
- 铸件，投掷，演员
- of
- 的，属于
- sir
- 先生，对男性的敬称
- until
- 直到，到为止
- the
- 定冠词
- original
- 原始的，原件
- is
- 是
- available
- 可获得的，有空的
- would
- 过去式助动词，表示条件
- be
- 是，存在
- an
- 一个，不定冠词
- ornament
- 装饰品，装饰
- museum
- 博物馆
- It
- 它，代词
- not
- 不，否定
- intention
- 意图，意思
- but
- 但是，然而
- confess
- 承认，坦白
- that
- 那个，那
- covet
- 渴望，垂涎
- waved
- 挥舞，挥手
- our
- 我们的
- strange
- 奇怪的，陌生的
- visitor
- 访客，游客
- into
- 进入，到内部
- chair
- 椅子，主席
- You
- 你，你们
- are
- 是，你是
- enthusiast
- 爱好者，热情者
- in
- 在，里面
- line
- 线，行
- thought
- 思想，想法
- perceive
- 感知，察觉
- as
- 如，当
- am
- 是，我是
- mine
- 我的，矿
- said
- 说，说道
- he
- 他
- observe
- 观察，观察到
- from
- 从，来自
- forefinger
- 食指，指尖
- make
- 制作，做
- own
- 自己的，拥有
- cigarettes
- 香烟，烟
- Have
- 有，拥有
- no
- 没有，不
- hesitation
- 犹豫，迟疑
- lighting
- 点燃，照明
- one
- 一个，一
- The
- 定冠词
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