东方快车谋杀案 17

Eight,THE EVIDENCE OF COLONEL ARBUTHNOT,Poirot roused himself with a slight start. His eyes twinkled a little as they met the eager ones of M.,Bouc.,“Ah! my dear old friend,” he said. “You see, I have become what they call the snob ¹! The first-class, I feel it should be attended to before the second-class. Next, I think, we will interview thegood looking Colonel Arbuthnot. ”,Finding the Colonel’s French to be of a severely ² limited description, Poirot conducted hisinterrogation in English.,“It is that you come home from India on what is called the leave—what we call en permission?
”,Colonel Arbuthnot, uninterested in what a pack of foreigners called anything, replied with trueBritish brevity:,“Yes.”,“But you do not come home on the P. & O. boat? ”,“No.
”,If you think that way, you are a snob already.如果你那样想的话
，你已经是势利小人了
。,He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。