有关福尔摩斯的英语短文

有关福尔摩斯的英语短文

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,who first appeared in publication in 1887.He is the creation of Scottish-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.A brilliant London-based consulting detective,Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess,and is renowned for his skillful use of "deductive reasoning" while using abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation) and astute observation to solve difficult cases.
Personality and habits
Monument of Sherlock Holmes in LondonHolmes describes himself and his habits as "Bohemian." In his personal habits,he is very disorganised,as Watson notes in "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual," leaving everything from notes of past cases to remains of chemical experiments scattered around their rooms and his tobacco inside a Persian slipper.Dr.Watson also states in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" that Holmes is generally late to rise.In A Study In Scarlet,however,Watson states that Holmes would undoubtedly have eaten breakfast and left their apartment before he woke up every morning.
Holmes often went without food during his more intense cases:
“ My friend had no breakfast for himself,for it was one of his peculiarities that in his more intense moments he would permit himself no food,and I have known him to presume upon his iron strength until he has fainted from pure inanition