红发会 THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE（二）

My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a,very capable perfomer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All,the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect,happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the,music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes,were as unlike those of Holmes, the sleuth-hound, Holmes the,possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual ² nature,alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and,astuteness ³ represented, as I have often thought, the reaction,against the poetic ⁴ and contemplative mood which occasionally,predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from,Their training has to be relentless.他们的训练必须是无情的 。,The people's Republic of China does not recognize dual nationality for any Chinese national.中华人民共和国不承认中国公民具有双重国籍
。