四签名 127琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(37)

"Strange," said I, "how terms of what in another man I should call laziness alternate with your fits of splendid energy and vigour¹."

"奇怪，"我道，"为什么我认为是很懒的人也会不时地表现出极为充沛的精力呢？"

"Yes," he answered, "there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of a fellow.

他答道："是的，我天生是一个很懒散的人，但同时又是一个好活动的人，

I often think of those lines of old Goethe:

我常常想到歌德的那句话

"Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf, Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff."

'上帝只造成你成为一个人形，原来是体面其表，流氓气质。'

By the way, apropos² of this Norwood business, you see that they had, as I surmised³,

还有一件，在这诺伍德案子里，我疑心到，

a confederate in the house, who could be none other than Lal Rao, the butler:

在樱沼别墅里有一个内应，不会是别人，就是仆人拉尔·拉奥

so Jones actually has the undivided honour of having caught one fish in his great haul."

那个在大网里捞到的家伙。这也确实得算是琼斯个人的荣誉了。"

"The division seems rather unfair," I remarked.

"分配得似乎不大公平。"，我道。

"You have done all the work in this business.

全案的工作都是你一个人干的，

I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains⁴ for you?"

我从中找到了妻子子，琼斯得到了功绩，请问，剩下给你的还有什么呢？"

"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine-bottle."

歇洛克·福尔摩斯道："我吗？我还有那可卡因瓶子吧。"

And he stretched his long white hand up for it.

说着他已伸手去抓瓶子了。

1 vigour   

（=vigor）n.智力，体力，精力

参考例句：

• She is full of vigour and enthusiasm.她有热情，有朝气。
• At 40,he was in his prime and full of vigour.他40岁时正年富力强。

2 apropos   

adv.恰好地；adj.恰当的；关于

参考例句：

• I thought he spoke very apropos.我认为他说得很中肯。
• He arrived very apropos.他来得很及时。

3 surmised   

v.臆测，推断( surmise的过去式和过去分词 )；揣测；猜想

参考例句：

• From the looks on their faces, I surmised that they had had an argument. 看他们的脸色，我猜想他们之间发生了争执。
• From his letter I surmised that he was unhappy. 我从他的信中推测他并不快乐。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。