英语词汇sherlock holmes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Sherlock Holmes. A. Conan Doyle probably named his de- tective after sage American author Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–94), who was also a professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard. Sherlock Holmes, however, was modeled in large part on Dr. Joseph Bell (1837–1911), an eminent Edinburgh surgeon under whom Doyle studied medicine and who, like Holmes, often deduced the life and habits of a stranger just by looking at him. Doyle once admitted: “I used and amplified his methods when I tried to build up a scientific detective who solved cases on his own merits.” It is said that Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes’s Boswell, was intended as a parody of Doyle. In any event, working out of their rooms at 221B Baker Street, Holmes and Watson collaborated on some 60 cases, beginning with A Study in Scarlet (1887). In none of these stories did Hol- mes ever say, “Elementary, my dear Watson,” and although he was addicted to cocaine, the great detective never once cried, “Quick, Watson, the needle!” Today the word Sherlock has come to mean a detective.

词汇	sherlock holmes
词源	Sherlock Holmes. A. Conan Doyle probably named his de- tective after sage American author Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–94), who was also a professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard. Sherlock Holmes, however, was modeled in large part on Dr. Joseph Bell (1837–1911), an eminent Edinburgh surgeon under whom Doyle studied medicine and who, like Holmes, often deduced the life and habits of a stranger just by looking at him. Doyle once admitted: “I used and amplified his methods when I tried to build up a scientific detective who solved cases on his own merits.” It is said that Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes’s Boswell, was intended as a parody of Doyle. In any event, working out of their rooms at 221B Baker Street, Holmes and Watson collaborated on some 60 cases, beginning with A Study in Scarlet (1887). In none of these stories did Hol- mes ever say, “Elementary, my dear Watson,” and although he was addicted to cocaine, the great detective never once cried, “Quick, Watson, the needle!” Today the word Sherlock has come to mean a detective.
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