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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Holmes calls the matter of the hat perfectly trivial, yet says it contains points that are interesting and even instructive. Outside, the weather is bitterly cold, and ice crystals cover the windows. Watson settles into an armchair and warms his hands before the fire while waiting to hear why the shabby object deserves attention.

I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows were thick with the ice crystals.私は彼の肘掛け椅子に腰を下ろし、ぱちぱちと燃える暖炉の火で手を温めた。厳しい冷え込みが始まっていて、窓には氷の結晶がびっしりと張りついていたのだ。
"I suppose," I remarked, "that, homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to it—that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of some mystery and the punishment of some crime."「思うに」と私は言った。「見たところありふれた帽子だが、これには何か恐ろしい話がからんでいるんだろう——何かの謎を解き、何かの罪を罰するための手がかりになるというわけだ」
"No, no.「いや、いや。
No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.罪などないよ」とシャーロック・ホームズは笑いながら言った。
"Only one of those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles.「ほんの数平方マイルの中で四百万もの人間が押し合いへし合いしていれば、どうしても起きてしまう、気まぐれでささいな出来事のひとつにすぎないのさ。
Amid the action and reaction of so dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be presented which may be striking and bizarre without being criminal.これほど密集した人の群れが互いに作用し合えば、ありとあらゆる出来事の組み合わせが起こりうるし、犯罪ではないのに人目をひく奇妙な小さな問題も、いくらでも持ち込まれるだろう。
We have already had experience of such."そういう経験なら、私たちはもう何度もしてきたじゃないか」
"So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any legal crime."「まったくだね」と私は言った。「私が記録に加えた最近の六つの事件のうち、三つは法律上の罪とはまるで無縁だったくらいだ」