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“It saved me from ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

“And you are a benefactor of the race,” said I.

He shrugged his shoulders. “Well, perhaps, after all, it is of some little use,” he remarked. “‘L’homme c’est rien—l’œuvre c’est tout,’ as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand.”

- End of The Red Headed League

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지난 줄거리: 홈즈의 아름다운 추리에 왓슨은 감탄합니다.

“It saved me from ennui,”

("이 사건은 나를 권태감에서 구해냈지.")

✔✔✔ ennui: 권태감.

he answered, yawning.

(홈즈가 하품을 하며 대답했다.)

✔✔✔ yawn: 하품하다, 하품.

“Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me.

("이런! 벌써 권태감이 덮쳐 오는 게 느껴지네.)

✔✔✔ close: 가까이 다가오다, 접근하다. 가까운. 닫다.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

(내 삶은 존재의 평범함에서 탈출하려는 하나의 긴 노력에 바쳐지지.)

✔✔✔

commonplace: 평범한 일. 별로 특별하지 않은 일.

existence: 존재

✔✔✔

These little problems help me to do so.”

(이런 작은 문제들이 나의 그러한 노력에 도움이 돼.)

“And you are a benefactor of the race,” said I.

("자네는 인류의 은인이야." 내가 말했다.)

✔✔✔

benefactor: 은인, 후원자.

race: 인류. 인종. 혈통.

✔✔✔

He shrugged his shoulders.

(홈즈는 어깨를 으쓱했다.)

✔✔✔ shrug: 으쓱하다.

“Well, perhaps, after all, it is of some little use,” he remarked.

("뭐, 어쩌면, 조금 도움이 될 수도 있겠지." 홈즈가 말했다.)

“‘L’homme c’est rien—l’œuvre c’est tout,’ as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand.”

('한 사람은 아무것도 아니다. 종합적인 업적이야말로 모든 것이다.' 귀스타브 플로베르가 조르주 상드에게 편지로 썼던 말이지.)

✔✔✔ L’homme c’est rien—l’œuvre c’est tout: 프랑스어를 영어로 번역하면 다음과 같은 뜻이라고 합니다. [The individual] man is nothing. The overall work [or mankind] is everything.

참고로 코넌 도일은 1859년생, 플로베르는 1821년생, 상드는 1801년생입니다.

끝.

“Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson’s presence—in other words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night.”

“You reasoned it out beautifully,” I exclaimed in unfeigned admiration. “It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings true.”

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지난 줄거리: 왓슨은 홈즈에게 그들이 오늘밤에 일을 시도하리라는 것을 어떻게 알았느냐고 묻습니다.

“Well, when they closed their League offices

(그게 말이지, 그들이 연맹 사무실을 폐쇄했을 때)

that was a sign

(그건 신호였어)

that they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson’s presence

(그들이 자베즈 윌슨 씨가 집에 있는지에 대해 더 이상 신경쓰지 않게 되었다는)

✔✔✔ presence: 존재함, 출석. 그들은 터널을 만드는 동안 윌슨의 absence(집에 없음)가 필요했습니다.

—in other words, that they had completed their tunnel.

(-달리 말하면, 그들이 터널을 완료했다는) [신호였어]

But it was essential that they should use it soon,

(그런데 그들이 그 터널을 곧 사용해야 한다는 건 필수였지.)

✔✔✔ essential: 필수불가결한, 중요한.

as it might be discovered, or the bullion might be removed.

(그 터널이 발견될 수도 있거나, 금괴가 옮겨질 수도 있으니까.)

✔✔✔

bullion: 금괴

remove: 제거하다, 치우다.

✔✔✔

Saturday would suit them better than any other day,

(토요일은 다른 어떤 날보다 그들에게 딱 좋았을 거야.)

✔✔✔ suit: 어울리다, 적합하다, 딱 좋다.

as it would give them two days for their escape.

(그러면 도망가는 데 이틀이 주어질 테니까.)

For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night.”

(이 모든 이유로 해서 나는 그들이 오늘밤에 올 거라 예상했지.)

“You reasoned it out beautifully,”

(아름답게 추리해 냈군.)

✔✔✔ reason: 추론하다, 근거를 바탕으로 합리적인 결론을 내다.

I exclaimed in unfeigned admiration.

(나는 진심으로 탄복하여 외쳤다.)

✔✔✔

exclaim: 외치다.

unfeigned: 진실한, 거짓 없는.

admiration: 감탄, 칭찬, 존경.

✔✔✔

“It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings true.”

(참으로 긴 사슬인데, 모든 연결 고리가 맞아떨어지네.)

✔✔✔

so long a chain: so 뒤에 형용사와 명사가 함께 올 경우, 관습적으로 관사를 형용사 뒤로 보냅니다. 하지만 만약 so 대신 such를 쓴다면 such a long chain처럼 씁니다.

and yet: 그런데도

link: 연결 고리

ring true: 진짜처럼 들린다. 그럴듯하다.

✔✔✔

The only remaining point was what they were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend’s premises, and felt that I had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank directors, with the result that you have seen.”

“And how could you tell that they would make their attempt to-night?” I asked.

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지난 줄거리: 홈즈는 전당포에서 조수의 무릎을 보고 그들이 터널을 파고 있음을 확인했습니다.

The only remaining point was what they were burrowing for.

(유일하게 남은 점은 그들이 무엇을 위해 터널을 파고 있느냐였지.)

I walked round the corner, saw the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend’s premises,

(나는 그 모퉁이를 돌아서, 우리 친구의 건물에 접해 있는 '시티 앤드 서버번 은행'을 보았어.)

✔✔✔

abutted: 인접한, 맞붙어 있는.

premises: 건물, 부동산.

✔✔✔

and felt that I had solved my problem.

(그리고 내가 나의 문제를 해결했다고 느꼈지.)

✔✔✔

When you drove home after the concert

(콘서트 후에 자네가 귀가한 후에)

✔✔✔

I called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank directors,

(나는 런던 경시청과 은행 이사회 의장을 방문했어.)

✔✔✔ Scotland Yard: 런던 경시청. 53화를 참고하세요.

with the result that you have seen.”

(그리고 자네가 본 결과가 나왔지.)

“And how could you tell that they would make their attempt to-night?” I asked.

("그러면 그들이 오늘밤에 시도할 거라는 사실을 자네는 어떻게 알았나?" 내가 물었다.)

“So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of those hours of burrowing.

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지난 줄거리: 홈즈는 전당포 조수가 지하실에서 오랜 시간이 걸리는 작업을 했으며, 그것은 터널을 파는 일 외에는 생각할 수 없었다고 추리합니다.

“So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action.

(우리가 현장을 방문하러 갔을 때 나는 그 정도만큼 알고 있었다.)

✔✔✔

so far: 그 정도. 우리는 '지금까지'(until now)의 뜻으로 많이 쓰지만, 여기서는 '그 정도만큼 (알고 있었다)'의 뜻입니다.

so far I had got when...: ...했을 때 나는 그 정도만큼 알고 있던 상태였다. when절이 과거형이므로, 주절에서는 그보다 앞선 과거완료형을 썼습니다.

즉, 현장을 방문하러 가기 전까지 홈즈가 추리한 바는 다음과 같습니다. '그들은 전당포 주인을 밖으로 꾀어낸 후 전당포 지하실에서 매일 오랜 시간 동안 무언가를 했으며, 그 일이란 터널을 파는 것 외에는 생각할 수 없다.'

✔✔✔

I surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick.

(나는 지팡이로 도로 위를 때려서 자네를 놀라게 했지.)

I was ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind.

(나는 그 지하실이 전당포 앞과 뒤 중 어느 쪽으로 뻗어 있는지 확인하고 있었어.)

✔✔✔

ascertain: 조사 등을 통해 확인하다.

stretch: 뻗다.

✔✔✔

It was not in front.

(앞쪽은 아니었어.)

Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the assistant answered it.

(그리고 나는 초인종을 울렸고, 내가 바랐던 대로, 그 조사가 나왔지.)

We have had some skirmishes, but we had never set eyes upon each other before.

(우리는 예전에 사소한 충돌이 좀 있었지만, 한 번도 서로의 눈을 마주친 적은 없었어.)

✔✔✔ skirmish: 작은 충돌, 논쟁.

I hardly looked at his face.

(나는 그의 얼굴을 거의 쳐다보지 않았어.)

✔✔✔ hardly: 거의 ...하지 않다.

His knees were what I wished to see.

(그의 무릎이 내가 보고 싶었던 거였지.)

You must yourself have remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were.

(자네가 봤더라도 그의 두 무릎이 얼마나 해지고, 주름지고, 더러웠는지 말했을 거야.)

✔✔✔

must have [과거분사]: ...했음이 틀림없다. 여기서는 yourself를 같이 써서, '자네였다면 말했을 것이 틀림없다'라는 의미입니다. 왓슨이 그날 실제로 그 조수의 무릎을 본 것은 아니었습니다. 여기서 홈즈는 가정법으로 '만약 네가 봤더라도 틀림없이 정말 무릎이 더럽다고 말했을 것이다. (그 정도로 더러웠다)'라고 말하고 있습니다.

remark: 말하다.

worn: wear-wore-worn. 해진, 낡은.

wrinkled: 주름이 진.

stained: 얼룩이 묻은. 더러운.

✔✔✔

They spoke of those hours of burrowing.

(그 더러운 무릎은 많은 시간 동안 터널을 팠음을 말해 주었지.)

✔✔✔ burrow: 구멍을 파고 나아가다. 굴 속에 숨다.

The Red-headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle

(...)

“You see, Watson,” he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, “it was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the Encyclopædia, must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was no doubt suggested to Clay’s ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice’s hair. The £ 4 a week was a lure which must draw him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for securing the situation.”

“But how could you guess what the motive was?”

“Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The man’s business was a small one, and there was nothing in his house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant’s fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London. He was doing something in the cellar—something which took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel to some other building.

(...)

I thought of the assistant’s fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London. He was doing something in the cellar—something which took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel to some other building.

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지난 줄거리: 홈즈는 범인들이 전당포 주인을 밖으로 내보내야 했던 동기가 집 밖에 있다고 추리했습니다.

I thought of the assistant’s fondness for photography,

(나는 그 조수가 사진을 좋아한다는 사실을 생각했지.)

✔✔✔ fondness: 좋아함. 애호.

and his trick of vanishing into the cellar.

(그리고 지하실로 사라진다는 속임수를) [생각했지.]

✔✔✔

trick: 속임수. (홈즈는 76화에서 말했듯이 조수가 반값으로 일한다는 사실에서 이미 속셈이 있다고 판단했습니다.)

vanish: 사라지다.

✔✔✔

The cellar!

(지하실!)

There was the end of this tangled clue.

(이 뒤얽힌 단서의 실마리가 거기에 있었어.)

✔✔✔

tangled: 뒤얽힌

the end of this tangled clue: 이 구절 전체가 마치 '뒤엉킨 실뭉치' 같은 이미지를 표현합니다. 뒤엉킨 실뭉치를 풀기 위해서는 우선 실 끄트머리를 발견해야 하는데, 그 실 끄트머리가 바로 the end(끝)입니다. 그러니까 end라고 해서 '끝났다'라는 의미가 아니라, 오히려 '실마리'라는 뜻입니다.

✔✔✔

Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant

(그리고 나는 이 수수께끼의 조수에 관해 질문을 해서)

✔✔✔

make inquiries: 질문하다.

as to: ...에 관해.

✔✔✔

and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London.

(런던에서 가장 냉철하고 대담한 범죄자 중 한 사람을 상대해야 한다는 사실을 알아냈지.)

✔✔✔

deal with: 처리하다, 상대하다.

cool: 냉정한, 냉철한.

daring: 대담한, 과감한.

criminal: 범죄자.

✔✔✔

He was doing something in the cellar

(그자가 지하실에서 무언가를 하고 있었던 거야.)

—something which took many hours a day for months on end.

(-하루에 몇 시간씩 걸리는 일을 몇 달 동안 계속 하는 무언가를.)

✔✔✔ on end: 계속해서. 연달아. (시간을 나타내는 표현 바로 뒤에 나올 때.)

What could it be, once more?

(또 한 번 더, 그것은 과연 무엇이었을까?)

✔✔✔ 77화에서도 what could it be?(그 동기는 무엇이었을까?)라는 같은 질문을 했습니다. 그때의 it은 범인들의 동기를 가리켰다면, 여기서의 it은 지하실에서 하고 있었던 무언가를 가리킵니다.

I could think of nothing

(나는 다른 것은 아무것도 생각할 수가 없었어.)

save that he was running a tunnel to some other building.

(그자가 다른 어떤 건물로 이어지는 터널을 파고 있다는 사실 외에는.)

✔✔✔

save: 여기서는 except(... 외에)의 뜻입니다.

run a tunnel: 터널을 뚫다.

✔✔✔

“But how could you guess what the motive was?”

“Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The man’s business was a small one, and there was nothing in his house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something out of the house. What could it be?

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지난 줄거리: 홈즈는 범인들이 전당포에 주인이 없는 상황을 확보하려는 분명한 동기가 있었다고 설명합니다.

“But how could you guess what the motive was?”

("하지만 그 동기가 무엇이었는지는 어떻게 추측할 수 있었나?")

“Had there been women in the house,

("만약 그 집안에 여자들이 있었다면)

✔✔✔

if가 생략된 조건절: if가 had 또는 should와 함께 쓰일 때, if를 생략하고 had 또는 should를 앞으로 뺄 수 있습니다. 이 문장의 경우 if there had been women...의 형태를 위와 같이 썼습니다. 마치 완료형 의문문처럼 보이지만 의문문이 아니라 if 조건절입니다. 문어체에서 주로 쓰입니다.

✔✔✔

I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue.

(나는 그저 저속한 밀회를 의심했었을 거야.)

✔✔✔

should have + [과거분사]: ...했어야 했다.

suspect: 의심하다.

mere: 그저, 단지. just.

vulgar: 저속한, 천박한, 외설적인.

intrigue: 계략, 음모. 밀회.

✔✔✔

That, however, was out of the question.

(그러나 그것은 고려할 바가 아니었지.)

✔✔✔ out of the question: 논외. 문제가 아님. 논의할 사항이 아님.

The man’s business was a small one,

(그 사람의 사업은 소규모였고)

and there was nothing in his house

(집안에는 아무것도 없었어)

which could account for such elaborate preparations,

(그런 공들인 준비를 설명할 수 있는 것은)

✔✔✔

관계대명사 which는 앞의 nothing을 수식합니다. (현대 영문법에서는 nothing을 수식하는 관계대명사는 that이어야 합니다.)

account for: ...의 이유를 설명하다.

elaborate: 공들인, 정성을 들인.

preparation: 준비.

✔✔✔

and such an expenditure as they were at.

(그리고 그들이 들인 그 정도의 비용) [을 설명할 수 있는 것은 집안에 아무것도 없었어]

✔✔✔

expenditure: 비용, 경비, 지출.

at: 비용을 뜻하는 단어 앞에 at이 와서 '비용을 들인 상태'를 의미한다고 볼 수 있습니다.

✔✔✔

It must, then, be something out of the house.

(그렇다면 그것은 집 바깥에 있는 무엇이어야만 해.)

What could it be?

(그것은 과연 무엇이었을까?)

The £ 4 a week was a lure which must draw him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for securing the situation.”

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지난 줄거리: 홈즈는 붉은 머리 연맹 사업의 핵심은 전당포 주인을 집 밖으로 끌어내는 것이었다고 설명합니다.

The £ 4 a week was a lure which must draw him,

(주당 4파운드는 전당포 주인을 끌어낼 게 틀림없는 미끼였지.)

✔✔✔

lure: 미끼. 1, 2번 음성에서 미국인은 '루어'라고 발음하고, 3, 4번 음성에서 영국인은 '류어'라고 발음하는 것을 들을 수 있습니다.

must: '주인을 끌어내어야만 하는 미끼'로 해석할 수도 있고, '주인을 끌어낼 것이 틀림없는 미끼'로 해석할 수도 있습니다. 저는 작가의 의도가 후자 쪽에 가깝다고 생각합니다.

✔✔✔

and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands?

(그리고 그게 뭐 그리 대단했겠어, 그들은 수천 파운드를 노리고 모의하고 있었는데?)

✔✔✔ who: 바로 앞의 them을 받는 관계대명사입니다.

They put in the advertisement,

(그들은 광고를 냈고)

one rogue has the temporary office,

(한 놈은 임시 사무실을 내고)

✔✔✔

rogue: 악당, 불량배.

temporary: 임시의.

✔✔✔

the other rogue incites the man to apply for it,

(다른 한 놈은 전당포 주인을 꾀어 그 사무실에 지원하게 하는 거야)

✔✔✔ incite: 꾀다. 선동하다.

and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the week.

(그렇게 그들은 함께, 일주일 동안 매일 아침 전당포 주인이 전당포를 비우는 상황을 확보하는 거지.)

✔✔✔

secure: 확보하다. 안전하게 지키다.

absence: 결석. 자리에 없음.

✔✔✔

From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages,

(그 조수가 반값의 임금으로 왔다는 얘기를 들은 순간부터)

✔✔✔ wage: 임금. 급여.

it was obvious to me

(나는 명백하다고 생각했지)

that he had some strong motive for securing the situation.”

(그에게 그 상황을 확보하려는 어떤 강한 동기가 있다는 것이) [명백하다고 생각했지]

✔✔✔ motive: 동기.

“You see, Watson,” he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, “it was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the Encyclopædia, must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was no doubt suggested to Clay’s ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice’s hair.

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지난 줄거리: 홈즈는 메리웨더에게 붉은 머리 연맹의 특별한 이야기와 독특한 경험이 보상이라고 말했습니다.

“You see, Watson,”

("그게 말이야, 왓슨.")

he explained in the early hours of the morning

(오전 이른 시간에 홈즈가 설명했다.)

as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street,

(베이커 가에서 위스키와 소다 한 잔을 놓고 앉아서)

“it was perfectly obvious from the first

("처음부터 너무나 명백했지.")

✔✔✔

obvious: 명백한, 뻔한.

from the start: 처음부터. from the beginning.

✔✔✔

that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the Encyclopædia,

(붉은 머리 연맹 광고의 이 다소 환상적인 사업, 그리고 백과사전 베끼는 일의 유일한 가능한 목적은)

✔✔✔

맨 앞의 that은 obvious에 이어지는 that절의 that입니다. 그다음 부분 전체는 that절 안에서 주어 역할을 합니다. 핵심 주어는 object(목적)입니다.

rather: 다소, 어느 정도.

advertisement: 광고.

the League: 붉은 머리 연맹을 가리킵니다.

✔✔✔

must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way

(이 많이 똑똑하지는 않은 전당포 주인을 끌어내는 것이 틀림없다는 것이) [처음부터 너무나 명백했지]

✔✔✔

문장이 길지만 문장 핵심은 다음과 같습니다.

to get him out: 그를 끌어내는 것

the object is [to get him out]: 그 목적은 [그를 끌어내는 것]이다.

the object must be [to get him out]: 그 목적은 [그를 끌어내는 것]임이 틀림없다.

it was obvious that [the object must be to get him out]: [그 목적은 그를 끌어내는 것임이 틀림없다]는 것이 명백했다.

not over-bright pawnbroker: 많이 똑똑하지는 않은 전당포 주인

get [him] out of the way: 위에서 설명을 간단히 하기 위해 저는 get him out(밖으로 끌어내다)이라고 했지만, 그게 정확한 뜻은 아닙니다. (큰 뜻에서는 맞습니다.) get ... out of the way의 원래 뜻은 '방해가 되던 것을 치우다'라는 의미입니다. the way는 범죄자들이 가고자 하던 길(은행 털이)인 셈이며, 따라서 그 길에 방해가 되는 전당포 주인을 '빼 내어야' 했습니다.

✔✔✔

for a number of hours every day.

(날마다 몇 시간 동안) [끌어내는 것]

It was a curious way of managing it,

(그건 그걸 하는 신기한 방식이었지만)

✔✔✔

주어 it은 '붉은 머리 연맹 작전'을 가리킵니다. 뒤에 나오는 manage의 목적어 it은 '전당포 주인을 몇 시간 동안 끌어내는 것'을 가리킵니다.

curious: 신기한, 호기심이 많은.

manage: 관리하다, 처리하다, 무언가를 해내다.

✔✔✔

but, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better.

(하지만 진짜로, 더 나은 방법을 제시하기는 어려울 거야.)

✔✔✔ would는 가정법을 표현합니다. it would have been difficult(더 어려웠을 거야)라고 표현할 수도 있습니다.

The method was no doubt suggested to Clay’s ingenious mind

(그 방법은 틀림없이 클레이의 독창적인 머리에 떠올랐던 거지.)

✔✔✔ ingenious: 독창적인, 똑똑한.

by the colour of his accomplice’s hair.

(공범의 머리 색깔을 보고) [떠올랐던 거지]

✔✔✔ accomplice: 공범자. 존 클레이(빈센트 스폴딩)와 함께 범죄를 벌인 덩컨 로스를 가리킵니다.

The Red-headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle

(...)

What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must have almost gone, and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint of a light.

At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones.

Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face and a shock of very red hair.

“It’s all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I’ll swing for it!”

Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes’ hunting crop came down on the man’s wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone floor.

“It’s no use, John Clay,” said Holmes blandly. “You have no chance at all.”

“So I see,” the other answered with the utmost coolness. “I fancy that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his coat-tails.”

“There are three men waiting for him at the door,” said Holmes.

“Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I must compliment you.”

“And I you,” Holmes answered. “Your red-headed idea was very new and effective.”

“You’ll see your pal again presently,” said Jones. “He’s quicker at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the derbies.”

“I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands,” remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. “You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have the goodness, also, when you address me always to say ‘sir’ and ‘please.’”

“All right,” said Jones with a stare and a snigger. “Well, would you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry your Highness to the police-station?”

“That is better,” said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the detective.

“Really, Mr. Holmes,” said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them from the cellar, “I do not know how the bank can thank you or repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience.”

“I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. John Clay,” said Holmes. “I have been at some small expense over this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of the Red-headed League.”

(...)