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不在任何报纸上出现。这工作本身为我奇特的精力寻找到一片天地，

是对我最高的奖赏。你应该还记得在杰斐逊·霍普案里，我的工作方法
为你带来的经验吧？”

"Yes, indeed," said I cordially. "I was never so struck by
anything in my life. I even embodied it in a small brochure,
with the somewhat fantastic title of 'A Study in Scarlet.'"

“是的，我记得，”我诚挚地说道，“我这辈子从来没有见过这样

的破案方式。我已经把案件的经过写成了一本小册子，并用了一个绝
妙的标题‘血字的研究’。”

He shook his head sadly.

他哀伤地摇了摇头。

"I glanced over it," said he. "Honestly, I cannot

congratulate you upon it. Detection is, or ought to be, an
exact science and should be treated in the same cold and
unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with

romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you
worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth
proposition of Euclid."

“我粗略地扫过一遍，”他说，“老实说，实在无法恭维。侦查工

作是一门，或者说应该是一门精确的科学，应该受到同样冷静、客观
的对待。你用浪漫主义为其渲染出色彩，这就像是在欧几里得的第五

公设里掺杂了爱情故事或私奔段子。”

"But the romance was there," I remonstrated. "I could
not tamper with the facts."

“但浪漫情节确实存在，”我反驳道，“我不能扭曲事实。”

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just
sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

The only point in the case which deserved mention was the
curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by
which I succeeded in unravelling it."