2020-12-05每日美文阅读和英语学习(第250天)

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The Story Behind Sherlock Holmes

Every year, thousands of people visit one of the world's most famous addresses: 221b Baker Street, London.

The address is famous for being where the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived in the well-known stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

福尔摩斯背后的故事

每年，成千上万的人参观世界上最著名的地址之一：伦敦贝克街221b号。

这个地址以亚瑟·柯南·道尔爵士著名小说中虚构的侦探夏洛克·福尔摩斯居住的地方而闻名。

A lot of people are so taken with the stories that they forget Sherlock Holmes wasn't a real person and therefore didn't ever actually live at the address. In fact, there was no house there when Conan Doyle wrote the stories.

So, if Sherlock Homes was a made up character, why do so many people think of him like a real person?

很多人被这些故事迷住了，以至于忘记了夏洛克·福尔摩斯不是一个真实的人，因此从来没有真正住在这个地址。事实上，柯南·道尔写这些故事的时候，那里没有房子。

那么，如果夏洛克·霍姆斯是一个虚构的角色，那么为什么有那么多人认为他是一个真实的人呢？

It is often said that the character Sherlock Holmes was based on a real person named Benjamin Bell, a forensic surgeon for whom Conan Doyle worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal infirmary.

Sherlock Holmes' problem-solving ability and powers of observation are based on the surgeon. Bell was even called on by the police to join several investigation, just as Sherlock Holmes did.

Conan Doyle found the inspiration for the name of his famous detective elsewhere, though. He was an expert cricket player and combined the names of to other well-known players, Shacklock and Sherwin, to make the name "Sherlock".

人们常说福尔摩斯这个角色是以一个名叫本杰明·贝尔的真人为原型的。本杰明·贝尔是柯南·道尔在爱丁堡皇家医务室工作的法医。

福尔摩斯解决问题的能力和观察力是以外科医生为基础的。贝尔甚至像夏洛克·福尔摩斯一样，被警方召集参加了几次调查。

不过，柯南·道尔在其他地方找到了他的著名侦探名字的灵感。他是一个板球专家，他把其他著名球员沙克洛克和舍温的名字结合起来，取名为“夏洛克”。

Another thing that makes the character seem like a real person is his distinctive habits. He rarely ate breakfast and had three pipes which he enjoyed smoking.

Although his famous methods for solving mysteries started in fiction, many of them became part of modern-day policing.

Although the character is made-up most of the locations are real. One of Conan Doyle's strengths as an author is describing a London that seems so real to the reader.

Most of the famous locations in the books are in London and Sherlock Homes fans love to visit the locations in the books and those used later in the movies.

另一个让这个角色看起来像一个真实的人的另一个原因是他独特的习惯。他很少吃早餐，有三个烟斗，他喜欢抽烟。

尽管他著名的破解谜团的方法始于小说，但其中许多都成为现代警务的一部分。

虽然角色是虚构的，但大部分的位置都是真实的。柯南·道尔作为一个作家的长处之一，就是描述一个在读者看来如此真实的伦敦。

书中大部分著名的地点都在伦敦，夏洛克之家的粉丝们喜欢参观书中的地点以及后来在电影中使用的地点。

美文阅读

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