Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous 1)private detectives 2)known to the world. 3)Operating out of London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sherlock Holmes was a 4)fictional 5)character 6)created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He 7)started off life between the 8)covers of a magazine in 1887 when the novel A Study in Scarlet was first published as a 9)serial. Doyle wrote a total of 4 novels and 56 short stories that 10)featured Sherlock Holmes during his career, which ended with his death in 1930.
・Words:
1) private detective 私家偵探 2) known to… 為…所知 3) operate (v.) 工作,運作 4) fictional (adj.) 虛構的 5) character (n.) 角色 6) create (v.) 創造 7) started off… 開始… 8) cover (n.) 書封,書底 9) serial (n.) 連載小說 10) feature (v.) 以…為主角