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四签名 101琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(11)
At two in the morning the rounds passed and broke for a moment the weariness of the night. 后半夜两点钟,稍微打破整夜沉寂的巡查过去了。 Finding that my companions would not be led into conversation, 我的同伴既不愿和我交谈
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四签名 102琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(12)
'How can I decide? said I.' 我道:'叫我如何做决定? 'You have not told me what you want of me. 你们没有告诉我是怎么一回事。 But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it
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四签名 103琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(13)
There is a rajah in the northern provinces who has much wealth, though his lands are small. 我们印度北部有一个土王,他的领土虽小,财产却很丰富。 Much has come to him from his father, and more still he has set by himself, 他的
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四签名 104琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(14)
He has with him as travelling-companion my foster-brother Dost Akbar, who knows his secret. 他的同伴是我的同盟兄弟德斯特阿克勃尔,他知道这个秘密。 Dost Akbar has promised this night to lead him to a side-postern of the fort
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四签名 105琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(15)
'I am with you heart and soul,' said I. 我道:'我的心和灵魂都和你们在一起。' 'It is well,' he answered, handing me back my firelock. 他把枪还给了我,并说:'这好极了, 'You see that we trust you, for your word, like ou
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四签名 106琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(16)
I let them scramble down the sloping bank, splash through the mire, and climb halfway up to the gate before I challenged them. 我等他们下了壕沟,涉过积水,爬上岸来, 'Who goes there?' said I in a subdued voice. 我才放低了声音问
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四签名 107琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(17)
I could not trust myself to speak longer with the man. 我不敢再和他说下去了。 The more I looked at his fat, frightened face, 我愈看他那可怜的小胖脸, the harder did it seem that we should slay him in cold blood. It was best to
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四签名 108琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(18)
He stopped and held out his manacled hands for the whisky and water which Holmes had brewed for him. 他说到这里停住了,伸出带着铐子的手,接过了福尔摩斯给他斟的加水威士忌酒。 For myself, I confess that I had now con
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四签名 109琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(19)
Well, we carried him in, Abdullah, Akbar, and I. 爱勃德勒克汗,德斯特阿克勃尔和我,三个人把尸身抬了进去。 A fine weight he was, too, for all that he was so short. 他身子虽然矮,可是真够重的。 Mahomet Singh wa
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四签名 110琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(20)
Besides this, there were nearly three hundred very fine pearls, twelve of which were set in a gold coronet. 除此之外,还有三百多颗精圆的珍珠,其中有十二颗珍珠是镶在一个金项圈上的。 By the way, these last had been t
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四签名 111琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(21)
Well, there's no use my telling you gentlemen what came of the Indian mutiny. 好啦,以后印度的叛变结果如何,也用不着我再来告诉你们诸位先生了。 After Wilson took Delhi and Sir Colin relieved Lucknow the back of the busi
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四签名 112琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(22)
Not a word about the jewels came out at the trial, 在审讯中没有人谈到宝物, for the rajah had been deposed and driven out of India: so no one had any particular interest in them. 因为那个土王已被罢黜并被逐出了印度,已经没
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四签名 113琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(23)
It is a dreary, fever-stricken place, and all beyond our little clearings was infested with wild cannibal natives, 那岛上是可怕的热病流行的区域,离我们不远就有吃人的生番部落, who were ready enough to blow a poisoned dar
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四签名 114琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(24)
Well, there was one thing which very soon struck me, 有一个情况不久就引起了我的注意: and that was that the soldiers used always to lose and the civilians to win. 每次赌钱总是军官们输,司狱官员们赢。 Mind, I don't sa
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四签名 115琼诺赞·斯茂的奇异故事(25)
'It's all up, Morstan,' he was saying as they passed my hut. 经过我的茅屋的时候,他和上尉说道:'摩斯坦,怎么办? 'I shall have to send in my papers. I am a ruined man.' 我可毁了,我得辞职了。' 'Nonsense, old chap!'