By edited by M.Minderhoud – own work based on PD map, Public Domain, Link He and Papa were in command of the troops at the Andaman Islands, so they were thrown a great deal together.[The Sign of Four] 안다만 제도는 자라와족과 센티널족을 포함한 여러 토착 부족으로 구성된 원주민 집단인 안다만족의 고향이다. 일부 섬은 허가받아 방문할 … Read More
What was I, an army surgeon with a weak leg and a weaker banking account, that I should dare to think of such things? She was a unit, a factor — nothing more.[The Sign of Four] 열등감에 시달리는 왓슨의 자조 섞인 고백이다. 메리 모스턴에게 반한 후 비루한 자신의 처지를 비관하는 상황이다. 나이도 얼추 삼십 대 … Read More
“Let me recommend this book — one of the most remarkable ever penned. It is Winwood Reade’s Martyrdom of Man. I shall be back in an hour.”[The Sign of Four] 셜록이 홀로 조사를 하러 외출하면서 왓슨에게 권한 책이다. 윌리엄 윈우드 리드(1838-1875)는 영국의 역사가, 탐험가, 철학자였다. 그의 가장 유명한 저서인 『인간의 순교』(1872)는 “성운에서 국가로”라는 제목으로 요약되는 … Read More
He smiled gently. “It is of the first importance,” he cried, “not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was … Read More
저자: Isabelle Grosjean ZA – Self-published work by ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0, 링크 “He was a man of untidy habits — very untidy and careless. He was left with good prospects, but he threw away his chances, lived for some time in poverty with occasional short intervals of prosperity, and finally, taking to drink, he … Read More
CC BY-SA 3.0, 링크 “Yes, I have been guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one ‘Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos.’ In it I enumerate a hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco, with coloured plates illustrating the difference in … Read More
“The only unofficial detective?” I said, raising my eyebrows. “The only unofficial consulting detective,” he answered.[The Sign of the Four] 셜록 홈즈가 자기 직업을 정의하는 장면이다. “단 하나의 비공식적인 컨설팅 탐정”.
Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it.[The Sign of the Four] 셜록의 약물 투입이 하루에 세 번이나 있었다는 왓슨의 증언
“Which is it to-day,” I asked, “morphine or cocaine?” He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. “It is cocaine,” he said, “a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?”[The Sign of Four] 홈즈는 두 가지 모두 즐기셨군.