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"Why, this article," I said, pointing at it with my egg
spoon as I sat down to my breakfast. "I see that you have

read it since you have marked it. I don't deny that it is
smartly written. It irritates me though. It is evidently the
theory of some armchair lounger who evolves all these neat
little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study. It is not
practical. I should like to see him clapped down in a third

class carriage on the Underground, and asked to give the
trades of all his fellow-travellers. I would lay a thousand to
one against him."

“唔，就这篇，”我一面坐下来吃早餐，一面用蛋匙指着那篇文章

说道，“我想你读过了，因为你做了记号。我不否认这篇文章写得很巧

妙。但它还是惹我生气。显然，这是一个整天坐在扶手椅里的闲人闷
在自己的书房里造出的理论，提出的尽是些巧妙精细却又自相矛盾的

悖论。这一点也不切合实际。我倒想看着他被关在一个地铁三等车厢
里，然后让他把每个乘客的职业都说出来。我愿意一千对一地跟他打

这个赌。”

"You would lose your money," Sherlock Holmes
remarked calmly. "As for the article I wrote it myself."

“那你就要输钱了，”舍洛克·福尔摩斯镇静地说，“这篇文章是我
写的。”

"You!"

“是你？!"

"Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for

deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and
which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely
practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my
bread and cheese."

“对，我在观察和推理方面都有天赋。我在那上面提到的那些理
论，尽管你觉得很荒唐，但其实非常实际——实际到我得靠它来挣得

我的面包和奶酪。”