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Chapter 34 Poirot Explains
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Chapter 34 Poirot Explains
We were sitting in a state of tense attention to listen to Poirot’s final explanation of the case.
‘All along,’ he said, ‘I have been worried over the whyof this case. Hastings said to me the other day that the case was ended. I replied to him that the case was the man!The mystery was not the mystery of the murders, but the mystery of A B C. Why did he find it necessary to commit these murders? Why did he select meas his adversary1?
‘It is no answer to say that the man was mentally unhinged. To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and reasoned in his actions as a sane3 man—given his peculiar4 biased5 point of view. For example, if a man insists on going out and squatting6 about in nothing but a loin cloth his conduct seems eccentric in the extreme. But once you know that the man himself isfirmly convinced that he is Mahatma Gandhi, then his conduct becomes perfectly7 reasonable and logical.
‘What was necessary in this case was to imagine a mind so constituted that it was logical and reasonable to commit four or more murdersand to announce them beforehand by letters written to Hercule Poirot.
‘My friend Hastings will tell you that from the moment I received the first letter I was upset and disturbed. It seemed to me at once that there was something very wrong about the letter.’
‘You were quite right,’ said Franklin Clarke dryly.
‘Yes. But there, at the very start, I made a grave error. I permitted my feeling—my very strong feeling about the letter—to remain a mere2 impression. I treated it as though it had been an intuition. In a well-balanced, reasoning mind there is no such thing as an intuition—an inspired guess! You canguess, of course—and a guess is either right or wrong. If it is right you call it an intuition. If it is wrong you usually do not speak of it again. But what is often called an intuition is really an impression based on logical
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v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的现在分词 );非法擅自占用(土地或房屋);为获得其所有权;而占用某片公共用地。 | |
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deduction
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motive
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publicity
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lust
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killer
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incurring
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遭受,招致,引起( incur的现在分词 ) | |
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motif
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n.(图案的)基本花纹,(衣服的)花边;主题 | |
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flirt
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visualize
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fully
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dual
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alibi
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n.某人当时不在犯罪现场的申辩或证明;借口 | |
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speculations
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n.投机买卖( speculation的名词复数 );思考;投机活动;推断 | |
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speculation
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macabre
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steadily
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adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地 | |
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discrepancy
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n.不同;不符;差异;矛盾 | |
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jack
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v.弄清,确定,查明( ascertain的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n. 出租的房舍, 寄宿舍 | |
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bombastic
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Christian
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nucleus
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n.核,核心,原子核 | |
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consignment
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n.寄售;发货;委托;交运货物 | |
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accomplished
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adj.有才艺的;有造诣的;达到了的 | |
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intentionally
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ad.故意地,有意地 | |
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investigation
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n.调查,调查研究 | |
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adj.岛屿的,心胸狭窄的 | |
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sufficiently
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perspicacious
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adj.聪颖的,敏锐的 | |
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subtleties
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细微( subtlety的名词复数 ); 精细; 巧妙; 细微的差别等 | |
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annoyance
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decided
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thoroughly
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innocence
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fingerprint
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flinched
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