Sherlock Holmes

'What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,' returned my companion, bitterly. 'The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.

Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that results. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backwards, or analytically.

Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

（这句在《恶劣的新娘》里也出现过）

第一感觉有点为伦敦鸣不平，凭啥巴黎是City of light, 伦敦就是化粪池。（1877年的巴黎是不是已经改造成功了我再查查）

再读，柯南道尔爵士确实是伦敦老司机，一定是对这个城市足够了解，有足够深的感情才会说出来的话。

I cried; 'If he really wants someone to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him. I should prefer having a partner to being alone.'

花生听老同学说阿福在找室友，按捺不住激动的心情。看到'having a partner'我也不淡定了，要是新版里用了这句台词，肯定是很好的视频素材呢。

'They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pain,' he remarked with a smile. 'It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.'

'I considered that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilled workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore,not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.' 'But the Solar System!' I protested. 'What the deuce is it to me?' he interrupted impatiently. 'You say that we go round sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.'