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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Original
English
Translation
Japanese
Chapters
12
Paragraphs
2,531
Price
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About the book

Twelve cases from the rooms at 221B Baker Street, told by Dr. Watson. A king fears a photograph held by the one woman who ever outwitted Holmes; a pawnbroker is paid to copy out the encyclopaedia because of the colour of his hair; a stolen jewel turns up inside a Christmas goose; and a terrified young woman hears a low whistle in the night, in the room where her sister died. Each begins with a visitor and a puzzle, and ends with Holmes explaining what everyone else looked at and did not see.

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote these stories for The Strand Magazine in 1891 and 1892, and they made the detective a household name. Every story stands alone and can be read in a single sitting, the narration is plain and brisk, and the dialogue carries most of the plot. That makes the collection a good book for learners who want a complete story at a time, with the Chinese translation beside each paragraph.

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The opening of A Scandal in Bohemia, with the English original beside its Japanese translation, the way the reader shows it.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer—excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

シャーロック・ホームズにとって、彼女はいつでも「あの女性」である。彼が彼女をそれ以外の名で呼ぶのを、私は滅多に耳にしたことがない。彼の目には、彼女はすべての女性を圧倒し、際立つ存在として映っていたのだ。かといって、アイリーン・アドラーに対して恋愛に似た感情を抱いていたわけではない。およそ感情というもの、とりわけ恋愛感情などは、彼の冷徹で精密、かつ見事なまでに調和の取れた精神にとっては忌むべきものであった。思うに、彼は世に類を見ないほど完全無欠な推論と観察の機械であったが、恋人という立場に身を置けば、自らを偽ることになっただろう。彼は淡い情愛などについて語るとき、皮肉と嘲笑を交えずに口にすることは決してなかった。そうした感情は、観察者にとっては見事な対象であり、人間の動機や行動の覆いを剥ぎ取るにはうってつけである。しかし、鍛錬を積んだ論理的思考者が、自らの繊細で精巧に調整された気質の中にそうした夾雑物の侵入を許すことは、自らの知的能力が導き出すあらゆる結果に疑念を抱かせかねない乱脈因子を招き入れることにほかならなかった。彼のような性質の持ち主にとって、激しい感情の動揺は、精密機器に入り込んだ砂粒や、自身が用いる高倍率レンズのひび割れ以上にかき乱されるものであったのだ。それにもかかわらず、彼にとって「あの女性」と呼ぶべき存在はただ一人しかいなかった。そしてその人こそ、いまは亡き、芳しからぬ疑惑の記憶を残すアイリーン・アドラーその人だったのである。

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Chapters

  1. A Scandal in Bohemiaボヘミアの醜聞
  2. The Redheaded League赤毛連盟
  3. A Case of Identity花婿失踪事件
  4. The Boscombe Valley Mysteryボスコム谷の謎
  5. The Five Orange Pipsオレンジの種五つ
  6. The Man with the Twisted Lip唇のねじれた男
  7. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle青い紅玉
  8. The Adventure of the Speckled Bandまだらの紐
  9. The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb技師の親指の冒険
  10. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor貴族の独身者
  11. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet緑柱石の宝冠
  12. The Adventure of the Copper Beechesぶな屋敷

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