希腊翻译（1）（在线收听）

The Greek Interpreter

Arthur Conan Doyle

During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life. This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman effect which he produced upon me, until sometimes I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence. His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his unemotional character, but not more so than his complete suppression of every reference to his own people. I had come to believe that he was an orphan with no relatives living, but one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother.

It was after tea on a summer evening, and the conversation, which had roamed in a desultory, spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic, came round at last to the question of atavism and hereditary aptitudes. The point under discussion was, how far any singular gift in an individual was due to his ancestry and how far to his own early training.

“In your own case,” said I, “from all that you have told me, it seems obvious that your faculty of observation and your peculiar facility for deduction are due to your own systematic training.”

希腊翻译

我和歇洛克．福尔摩斯先生虽然相识很久，亲密无间，但少听他说起他的亲属，也很少听他讲起自己早年的生活。他这样沉默寡言，更加使我觉得他有点不近人情，以至有时我把他看作一个孤僻的怪人，一个有头脑无情感的人，虽然他的智力超群，却缺乏人类的感情。

他不喜欢接近女人，不愿结一交一新友，这都表明了他不易动感情的一性一格特征，不过尤其无情的是他绝口不提家人。因此我开始认为他是一个孤儿，没有亲属在世了。可是有一天，出乎我意料之外，他竟同我谈起他的哥哥来了。一个夏天的傍晚，茶后无事，我们便海阔天空、东拉西扯地闲聊起来，从高尔夫球俱乐部到黄赤一交一角变化的原因，最后谈到返祖现象和遗传适应一性一，讨论的要点是：一个人的出众才能有多少出于遗传，又有多少出于自身早年所受的训练。

“拿你本人来说，”我说道，“从你告诉过我的情况看来，似乎很明显，你的观察才能和独到的推理能力，都取决于自身的系统训练。”