《神探夏洛克的真实面目》

主播：邱洋洋 导播：张苗 编辑：卓金金 Hello,everyone,welcome to the English broadcasting station of YunCheng university,this is FM85.0,I am Shirley. I don't know if you have read the book Sherlock Holmes? Sherlock Holmes is very thoughtful and good at reasoning. Let's read the following article to explore holmes. More than a century after first emerging into the fog-bound，gas-lit streets of Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes is universally recognizable. Even his wardrobe and accessories are icone:the inverness cape, deertalker hat, and calabash pipe. And figures such as his best friend and housemate Doctor Watson. Arch-nemesis Moriarty, and housekeeper Mrs Hudson, have become part of the popular consciousness, as have his extraordinary infallible powers of deduction utilized in the name of the law. His notorious drug use, and his popular catchphrase, " Elementary My Dear Watson" . And yet many of these most recognizable features of Holmes, don't appear in Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. Doyle's great detective solves crimes in all sorts of ways, not just using deduction. He speculates and at times even guesses, and regularly makes false assumptions. Furthermore, Mrs. Hudson is barely mentioned，(and)no one says" Elementary My Dear Watson" , and the detective and his sidekick live apart for much of the time. Moriarty, the grand villain, only appears in two stories, the detective's drug use is infrequent after the first two novels. And Holmes is rarely enthralled to the English Legal System, he much prefers enacting his own form of natural justice to sticking to the letter of law. Finally, many of the most iconic elements of the Holmesian legend, aren't Doyle's either. The deerstalker cap and cape were first imagined by Sidney Paget, the story's initial illustrator;the curved pipe was chosen by American actor William Gillette, so that audiences could more clearly see his face on stage and the phrase" Elementary My Dear Watson" was coined by author humorist P. G Wodehouse. So who exactly is Sherlock Holmes? Who's the real great detective, and where do we find him? Purists might answer that the original Sherlock, inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's university mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell is the real one. But the fact remains that version of Sherlock has been largely eclipsed, by the sheer volume of interpretation, leaving Doyle's detective largely unrecognizable. So there's another more complex, but perhaps more satisfying answer to the question. But to get there, we must first consider the vast body of interpretations of the great detective. Since Conan Doyle's first story in 1887, there have been thousands of adaptations of Holmes, making him perhaps the most adapted fictional character in the world. That process began with Victorian stage adaptations, and accelerated with the emergence of film. There were more than one hundred film adaptations of Holmes in the first two decades of the 20th century alone. And since then, there have been many thousands more in print, and on film, television, stage, and radio. Holmes has been reinterpreted by people everywhere in remarkably different and often contradictory ways. These adaptations demonstrate both Holme's popularity and his malleability. For instance, he featured in a number of allied anti-Nazi propaganda films during World War II. And both Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were avid enthusiasts. The latter even joining the Baker Street lrregulars, a Holmesian appreciation society. And nicknaming one secret service hidecout" Baker Street" . And yet, at the very same time, Holmes also appeared in various German-language film adaptions, some of which were said to have been much-loved favorites of Adolf Hitler. So let's return to our question, would the real Sherlock Homles please stand up? The truth is that this world of adaption has made him into a palimpsest. Thank you for listening,I am your friend Shirley，see you next time!