neidr | "Элементарно!"

1) "Interesting, though elementary," said he as he returned tohis favourite corner of the settee (The Hound of the Baskervilles).

2) "Excellent!" I cried.
"Elementary", said he. "It is one of those instances where the reasoner can produce an effect which seems remarkable to his neighbour, because the latter has missed the one little point which is the basis of the deduction. The same may be said, my dear fellow, for the effect of some of these little sketches of yours, which is entirely meretricious, depending as it does upon your retaining in your own hands some factors in the problem which are never imparted to the reader. Now, at present I am in the position of these same readers, for I hold in this hand several threads of one of the strangest cases which ever perplexed a man's brain, and yet I lack the one or two which are needful to complete my theory. But I'll have them, Watson, I'll have them!" (The Crooked Man).

3) "I'm sure, Watson, a week in the country will be invaluable to you", - he remarked. "It is very pleasant to see the first green shoots upon the hedges and the catkins on the hazels once again. With a spud, a tin box, and an elementary book on botany, there are instructive days to be spent" (The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge).

4) "The train of reasoning is not very obscure, Watson," said Holmes with a mischievous twinkle. "It belongs to the same elementary class of deduction which I should illustrate if I were to ask you who shared your cab in your drive this morning" (The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax).

Вот все elementary в речи Холмса, которые нашлись. Причём строгое соответствие только одно - во втором примере. В первом это характеристика дела ("интересное, но простое"), в третьем - книги, а в четвёртом Холмс прохаживается насчёт ценности раздумий в поездах.