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诺克斯十诫[url=]编辑[/url]
1 The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow.
罪犯必须是故事开始时出现过的人，但不得是读者可以追踪其思想的人。
2 All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.
侦探不能用超自然的或怪异的侦探方法
3 Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable.
犯罪现场不能有超过一个秘密房间或通道
4 No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end.
作案时候，不能使用尚未发明的毒药，或需要进行深奥的科学解释的装置
5 No Chinaman must figure in the story.
不准有中国人出现在故事里(备注1)
6 No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.
侦探不得用偶然事件或不负责任的直觉来侦破案件
7 The detective must not himself commit the crime.
侦探不得成为罪犯
8 The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader.
侦探不得根据小说中未向读者提示过的线索破案
9 The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader.
侦探的笨蛋朋友，比如华生，必须将其判断毫无保留地告诉读者，此人的智力须轻微低于读者的平均水平。
10 Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.
小说中如果有双胞胎或双重身份的人时，必须提前告诉人们
*备注1 说一下，诺克斯十戒第五条并不存在歧视或者妖魔化。事实上，诺克斯十戒第五条和第二条并不相同，并不是为了排除超自然现象。诺克斯也没认为亚洲人有什么奇异的能力。诺克斯十戒第五条想表达的意思是：“不准有武林高手出现在故事里。”
第五条是为了避免出现下面这样的情况：
假定一个被害者被砸碎头颅而死，却始终找不到凶器。铺垫了一大堆到最后却告诉你凶手其实是个练家子，徒手把人脑袋砸了。或者，被害人心脏突然停止而没有其它外伤，最后却告诉你是被人近距离以寸拳击中心窝。 这两种情况都不是超现实的东西，练过的人的确是可以徒手砸碎椰子壳（人头颅和椰子壳强度类似），寸拳（也被称为死拳）也的确可以瞬间让心脏停搏致死。但是，这种现实本身就和秘密通道一样是一种对读者的作弊行为，因为读者并不会去考虑这种作者不说就不可能知道的可能性。 |
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