福爾摩斯經典語錄

天夜弦

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1.犯罪調查的第一法則就是:你必須尋找各種可能解釋事情的方法,然後想辦法看看能否試圖推翻它。
1.One should always look for a possible alternative and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.

2.將異常的東西和神秘混淆起來是十分錯誤的。
2.It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

3.在沒有事實作為參考以前妄下猜測(論點)是個很可怕的錯誤.感覺不正確的人總是用事實去套自己固有的猜測(論點),而不是按正確的方法根據得到的事實來推導結論,看它能否吻合已得到的事實。
3.It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

4.沒有什麼比一個顯而易見的事實更能迷惑人了。
4.There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

5.我從不假設例外,例外會打破調查的原則。
5.I never make an exception. An exception disproves the rule.

6.你是在看,而不是在觀察。
6.You see, but you do not observe.

7.犯罪是普遍的,而邏輯是難得的.因此,你思考是更該關注邏輯上的成立多於犯罪本身。
7.Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore, it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

8.任何確實得到的事實都要強於不確定的猜測。
8.Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

9.在解決這類問題時,先前假定的觀點必須能夠向前回溯成立。
9.In solving a problem of this sort, the grant thing is to be able to reason backward.

10.越是稀奇古怪的東西,通常包含隱密的成分越少。
10.The more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

11.一些缺乏天賦的人卻擁有一種非凡的激發別人(也就是指福自己啦)靈感的力量。
11.Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

12.我從不猜測.那是破壞思維的壞習慣。
12.I never guess. It is a shocking habit.

13.鑑於此,我想說,沒有比平凡的事物更不尋常,更值得研究了。
13.Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

14.我以了解事物為生.也許我已經把自己訓練得能看穿別人看過卻會忽略的東西了。
14.It is my business to know things. Perhaps, I have trained myself to see what others overlook.

15.你永遠不可能預言任何一個單個的人將要做什麼,但你卻可以對人類做出準確的定性的評價.個別總可能是特例的異常,可總的來說,就是那樣。
15.You can never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant.

16.恐懼來自於想像。(或者說，恐懼來自於未知？)
16.Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.