福尔摩斯-皮肤变白的军人 The Adventure of the Blanched Soldie

The Blanched ¹ Soldier,Arthur Conan Doyle,The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited, are exceedingly pertinacious ². For a long time he has worried me to write an experience of my own. Perhaps I have rather invited this persecution ³, since I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering ⁴ to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly ⁵ to facts and figures. “Try it yourself, Holmes! ” he has retorted, and I am compelled to admit that, having taken my pen in my hand, I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader. The following case can hardly fail to do so, as it is among the strangest happenings in my collection, though it chanced that Watson had no note of it in his collection. Speaking of my old friend and biographer, I would take this opportunity to remark that if I burden myself with a companion in my various little inquiries ⁶ it is not done out of sentiment or caprice, but it is that Watson has some remarkable ⁷ characteristics of his own to which in his modesty ⁸ he has given small attention amid his exaggerated estimates of my own performances. A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is indeed an ideal helpmate.,I find from my notebook that it was in January, 1903, just after the conclusion of the Boer War, that I had my visit from Mr. James M. Dodd, a big, fresh, sunburned, upstanding Briton. The good Watson had at that time deserted ¹⁰ me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association. I was alone.,It is my habit to sit with my back to the window and to place my visitors in the opposite chair, where the light falls full upon them. Mr. James M. Dodd seemed somewhat at a loss how to begin the interview. I did not attempt to help him, for his silence gave me more time for observation. I have found it wise to impress clients with a sense of power, and so I gave him some of my conclusions.,“From South Africa, sir, I perceive.
”,“Imperial Yeomanry, I fancy.”,“Exactly. ”,“Middlesex Corps ¹¹, no doubt.”,“That is so. Mr. Holmes, you are a wizard.
”,I smiled at his bewildered expression.,Their faces blanched in terror. 他们的脸因恐惧而吓得发白。 来自《简明英汉词典》,I can affirm that he is tenacious and pertinacious as are few.我可以肯定，像他那样不屈不挠 、百折不回的人是十分罕见的 。