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Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes(夏洛克•福尔摩斯), the greatest of all fictional detectives(虚构的侦探)was the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(英作家柯南•道尔)(1859—1930),who published 60 stories about him,including three full-length novels. The character(角色)was in part suggested by that of Dr Joseph Bell,an eminent(有名的)Edinburgh surgeon(外科医生),under whom Conan Doyle studied medicine. The author’s experience as a doctor also gave him the necessary background for the creation of Dr Watson,the supposed narrator(讲述者) of the Holmes stories,who served as a foil(陪衬)for the great detective and became almost as famous as his companion(同伴).
Sherlock Holmes arrived at his solutions by acute(敏锐的)observation and brilliant reasoning. His first case was A Study in Scarlet(《红字的研究》),a full-length novel.
But it was not until short stories began to appear regularly in the Strand Magazine(《海滨杂志》)that he and his creator became famous. After the stories had been collected in two books,Conan Doyle became tired of his hero(厌倦所塑造的主人公)and arranged a suitably heroic death for him in a struggle with his great enemy Moriarty. However, the public refused to accept that Holmes’ life really ended in that struggle, so the detective was resurrected(复活), and Conan Doyle continued to write about him until his own death.
Apart from Holmes, Conan Doyle wrote other fine stories, including The Lost World, The White Company and The Prison Belt. He was also the author of a History of Spiritualism, and histories of the South African War and the British campaigns(战役)on the Western Front in the First World War.
He Knows a Little English
In pre-Hitler days(希特勒统治前的日子),in Berlin, Erich Maria Remarque(德小说家雷马克),the author of All Quiet on the Western Front(《西线无战事》)(描写一战最著名的作品)was talking to an American girl.
The American, speaking in German, asked Remarque why he had never visited the United States. His answer was that he knew only a few sentences in English.
“What are the sentences?”inquired the girl.
“Whereupon(于是),”Remarque, speaking slowly in somewhat guttural(难听的)English said:“How do you do?I love you. Forgive(原谅)me. Forget me. Ham(火腿)and eggs, please.”
“Sakes alive(天呀)!”ejaculated(突然说)the American girl.“Why, with that vocabulary you could tour my country from Maine to California.”
Sherlock Holmes(夏洛克•福尔摩斯), the greatest of all fictional detectives(虚构的侦探)was the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(英作家柯南•道尔)(1859—1930),who published 60 stories about him,including three full-length novels. The character(角色)was in part suggested by that of Dr Joseph Bell,an eminent(有名的)Edinburgh surgeon(外科医生),under whom Conan Doyle studied medicine. The author’s experience as a doctor also gave him the necessary background for the creation of Dr Watson,the supposed narrator(讲述者) of the Holmes stories,who served as a foil(陪衬)for the great detective and became almost as famous as his companion(同伴).
Sherlock Holmes arrived at his solutions by acute(敏锐的)observation and brilliant reasoning. His first case was A Study in Scarlet(《红字的研究》),a full-length novel.
But it was not until short stories began to appear regularly in the Strand Magazine(《海滨杂志》)that he and his creator became famous. After the stories had been collected in two books,Conan Doyle became tired of his hero(厌倦所塑造的主人公)and arranged a suitably heroic death for him in a struggle with his great enemy Moriarty. However, the public refused to accept that Holmes’ life really ended in that struggle, so the detective was resurrected(复活), and Conan Doyle continued to write about him until his own death.
Apart from Holmes, Conan Doyle wrote other fine stories, including The Lost World, The White Company and The Prison Belt. He was also the author of a History of Spiritualism, and histories of the South African War and the British campaigns(战役)on the Western Front in the First World War.
He Knows a Little English
In pre-Hitler days(希特勒统治前的日子),in Berlin, Erich Maria Remarque(德小说家雷马克),the author of All Quiet on the Western Front(《西线无战事》)(描写一战最著名的作品)was talking to an American girl.
The American, speaking in German, asked Remarque why he had never visited the United States. His answer was that he knew only a few sentences in English.
“What are the sentences?”inquired the girl.
“Whereupon(于是),”Remarque, speaking slowly in somewhat guttural(难听的)English said:“How do you do?I love you. Forgive(原谅)me. Forget me. Ham(火腿)and eggs, please.”
“Sakes alive(天呀)!”ejaculated(突然说)the American girl.“Why, with that vocabulary you could tour my country from Maine to California.”