斑点带子

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The awful scream faded into silence. 可怕的尖叫声归于沉寂。

Holmes went pale, and he lowered his cane. 福尔摩斯脸色苍白，放下了手杖。

"What was it?" 那是什么？

I asked, shaking. 我颤抖着问。

"Come and see," Holmes said. 霍尔摩斯说：“来看看吧。”

"It is finished." 成了。

We went into Dr. Roylott's room. 我们走进了罗伊洛特医生的房间。

There he sat, dead in his chair. 他坐在那里，死在他的椅子上。

And around his head, like a horrible ribbon, was a snake—a small, 在他的头周围，像一条可怕的丝带，缠绕着一条蛇——一条小小的，

deadly snake with yellow and brown spots. 有黄色和棕色斑点的致命蛇。

"The speckled band," Holmes said quietly. “斑点带，” 福尔摩斯轻声说道。

"Not a group of gypsies, as some believed. 并非一群吉普赛人，正如一些人所认为的那样。

A band around a snake." 缠绕在蛇身上的一条带子。

Then he explained the whole terrible plan. 然后他解释了整个可怕的计划。

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Roylott wanted the money, so he had to stop the girls from marrying. 罗伊洛特想要那笔钱，所以他必须阻止女孩们结婚。

He trained this deadly snake from India. 他训练了这条来自印度的致命毒蛇。

At night, he sent it through the air vent and down the fake bell-rope. 晚上，他把它通过通风口，顺着假铃绳送了下去。

It crawled onto the bed—which was fixed in place, 它爬上了床，那张床是固定不动的。

so no one could move away from it. 这样一来，就没有人能离开它了。

The snake bit his stepdaughter, and no doctor could find the cause." 蛇咬了他的继女，却没有医生能找出原因。

"But tonight," Holmes went on, "I drove it back with my cane. “但是今晚，”福尔摩斯接着说，“我用我的手杖把它赶了回去。”

Angry and hurt, it turned on its master instead." 愤怒又受伤的它，反而攻击了它的主人。

Evil often destroys the very hand that feeds it. 邪恶往往会反噬施恩者。

So Dr. Roylott died by his own cruel weapon, and Helen was finally safe. 于是，罗伊洛特医生死于他自己的残忍武器，海伦终于安全了。