《福尔摩斯探案集·波希米亚丑闻》第2节
I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion.
注释摘要
这段文字是整篇小说的第二段，也是华生与福尔摩斯在贝克街重逢之前的背景铺陈。它从时间、空间和生活方式三个维度，交代了两人疏远的原因与现状。 先说字面意思。华生坦言婚后很少见到福尔摩斯。婚姻把他拉向了另一个方向——他获得了“完全的幸福”，被家庭中心的种种事务包围，沉浸于初为人主、拥有自己家业的满足感里。而福尔摩斯恰好相反：他以“完全的波希米亚灵魂”厌弃一切社交…