Watson: You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of storys.

Holmes: No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing to Dupin. Now, in my opion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends’ thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour’s silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.

下面是我的译文。

华生：你使我想起爱伦·坡笔下的杜宾。我本以为这种人只有在小说里才出现。