希腊翻译（1）

The Greek Interpreter

Arthur Conan Doyle

During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life. This reticence¹ upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman² effect which he produced upon me, until sometimes I found myself regarding him as an isolated³ phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient⁴ in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence. His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his unemotional character, but not more so than his complete suppression of every reference to his own people. I had come to believe that he was an orphan⁵ with no relatives living, but one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother.

It was after tea on a summer evening, and the conversation, which had roamed in a desultory⁶, spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity⁷ of the ecliptic, came round at last to the question of atavism and hereditary⁸ aptitudes⁹. The point under discussion was, how far any singular gift in an individual was due to his ancestry¹⁰ and how far to his own early training.

“In your own case,” said I, “from all that you have told me, it seems obvious that your faculty¹¹ of observation and your peculiar¹² facility for deduction¹³ are due to your own systematic¹⁴ training.”

希腊翻译

我和歇洛克．福尔摩斯先生虽然相识很久，亲密无间，但少听他说起他的亲属，也很少听他讲起自己早年的生活。他这样沉默寡言，更加使我觉得他有点不近人情，以至有时我把他看作一个孤僻的怪人，一个有头脑无情感的人，虽然他的智力超群，却缺乏人类的感情。

他不喜欢接近女人，不愿结一交一新友，这都表明了他不易动感情的一性一格特征，不过尤其无情的是他绝口不提家人。因此我开始认为他是一个孤儿，没有亲属在世了。可是有一天，出乎我意料之外，他竟同我谈起他的哥哥来了。一个夏天的傍晚，茶后无事，我们便海阔天空、东拉西扯地闲聊起来，从高尔夫球俱乐部到黄赤一交一角变化的原因，最后谈到返祖现象和遗传适应一性一，讨论的要点是：一个人的出众才能有多少出于遗传，又有多少出于自身早年所受的训练。

“拿你本人来说，”我说道，“从你告诉过我的情况看来，似乎很明显，你的观察才能和独到的推理能力，都取决于自身的系统训练。”

1 reticence   

n.沉默，含蓄

参考例句：

• He breaks out of his normal reticence and tells me the whole story.他打破了平时一贯沈默寡言的习惯，把事情原原本本都告诉了我。
• He always displays a certain reticence in discussing personal matters.他在谈论个人问题时总显得有些保留。

2 inhuman   

adj.残忍的，不人道的，无人性的

参考例句：

• We must unite the workers in fighting against inhuman conditions.我们必须使工人们团结起来反对那些难以忍受的工作条件。
• It was inhuman to refuse him permission to see his wife.不容许他去看自己的妻子是太不近人情了。

3 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

4 deficient   

adj.不足的，不充份的，有缺陷的

参考例句：

• The crops are suffering from deficient rain.庄稼因雨量不足而遭受损害。
• I always have been deficient in selfconfidence and decision.我向来缺乏自信和果断。

5 orphan   

n.孤儿；adj.无父母的

参考例句：

• He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine.他把一个孤儿养大，并且把自己的医术传给了他。
• The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大。

6 desultory   

adj.散漫的，无方法的

参考例句：

• Do not let the discussion fragment into a desultory conversation with no clear direction.不要让讨论变得支离破碎，成为没有明确方向的漫谈。
• The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.警察漫不经心地拦着不让他们靠近谷仓。

7 obliquity   

n.倾斜度

参考例句：

• It is here that the obliquity factor makes a crucial difference. 正是在这里，倾斜因子构成了重要的差别。 来自辞典例句
• The obliquity of the ecliptic is the fundamental cause of the seasons. 黄道的倾角是季节的基本成因。 来自辞典例句

8 hereditary   

adj.遗传的，遗传性的，可继承的，世袭的

参考例句：

• The Queen of England is a hereditary ruler.英国女王是世袭的统治者。
• In men,hair loss is hereditary.男性脱发属于遗传。

9 aptitudes   

（学习方面的）才能，资质，天资( aptitude的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They all require special aptitudes combined with special training. 他们都应具有专门技能，并受过专门训练。
• Do program development with passion. has aptitudes for learning. research. innovation. 热爱程序开发工作。具有学习。钻研。创新的精神。

10 ancestry   

n.祖先，家世

参考例句：

• Their ancestry settled the land in 1856.他们的祖辈1856年在这块土地上定居下来。
• He is an American of French ancestry.他是法国血统的美国人。

11 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。

12 peculiar   

adj.古怪的，异常的；特殊的，特有的

参考例句：

• He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
• He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。

13 deduction   

n.减除，扣除，减除额；推论，推理，演绎

参考例句：

• No deduction in pay is made for absence due to illness.因病请假不扣工资。
• His deduction led him to the correct conclusion.他的推断使他得出正确的结论。

14 systematic   

adj.有系统的，有计划的，有方法的

参考例句：

• The way he works isn't very systematic.他的工作不是很有条理。
• The teacher made a systematic work of teaching.这个教师进行系统的教学工作。