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What Do You Make of It?
Holmes has promised Wilson an answer by Monday and sent the red-haired client home. Left alone, Holmes and Watson discuss the remarkable affair. Watson admits that he cannot make sense of it at all. Holmes responds with a surprising theory about why bizarre cases may be easier to solve than crimes that appear entirely ordinary.
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Holmes has promised Wilson an answer by Monday and sent the red-haired client home. Left alone, Holmes and Watson discuss the remarkable affair. Watson admits that he cannot make sense of it at all. Holmes responds with a surprising theory about why bizarre cases may be easier to solve than crimes that appear entirely ordinary.
"Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what do you make of it all?"「さて、ワトソン」客が帰ってしまうと、ホームズが言った。「きみはこの一件をどう思うね？」
"I make nothing of it," I answered frankly.「さっぱり分からないね」と私は正直に答えた。
"It is a most mysterious business."「なんとも不可解な話だよ」
"As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.「たいていの場合」とホームズは言った。「奇妙なことほど、かえって謎は浅いものなのだ。
It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.本当に頭を悩ませるのは、ありふれた、何の特徴もない犯罪のほうで、平凡な顔がいちばん見分けにくいのと同じことさ。
But I must be prompt over this matter."だが、この件は急いで手を打たねばならない」
"What are you going to do, then?" I asked.「それで、どうするつもりなんだい？」と私は尋ねた。