不可思议的窃贼04

Four,Blinking a little, Hercule Poirot turned his head from one man to the other. Very delicately hesmothered a yawn.,It was half past two in the morning. He had been roused from sleep and rushed down throughthe darkness in a big Rolls Royce. Now he had just finished hearing what the two men had totell?him.,“Those are the facts, M. Poirot,” said Lord Mayfield.,He leaned back in his chair, and slowly fixed ¹ his monocle in one eye. Through it a shrewd,pale-blue eye watched Poirot attentively ². Besides being shrewd the eye was definitely sceptical.,Poirot cast a swift glance at Sir George Carrington.,Poirot said slowly:,“I have the facts, yes. The maid screams, the secretary goes out, the nameless watcher comesin, the plans are there on top of the desk, he snatches them up and goes. The facts—they are allvery convenient. ”,Something in the way he uttered the last phrase seemed to attract Lord Mayfield’s attention.,He sat up a little straighter, his monocle dropped. It was as though a new alertness came to him.,“I beg your pardon, M. Poirot?
”,Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定
，我们就不应该随意改变
。,She listened attentively while I poured out my problems. 我倾吐心中的烦恼时，她一直在注意听。 来自《简明英汉词典》