The Adventure of the Copper Beeches 铜山毛榉案（1）

"To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock,Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily,Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest,manifestations ¹ that the keenest pleasure is to be derived ². It is,pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped,this truth that in these little records of our cases which you,occasionally to embellish ³, you have given prominence ⁴ not so much,to the many causes celebres and sensational ⁵ trials in which I,have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been,trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those,faculties ⁶ of deduction ⁷ and of logical synthesis which I have made,To be wordly-wise and play safe is one of the manifestations of liberalism. 明哲保身是自由主义的表现之一
。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》,Many English words are derived from Latin and Greek. 英语很多词源出于拉丁文和希腊文。 来自《简明英汉词典》