sherlock
神探,夏洛克,侦探,洛克
Definitions
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Informal.
- : a private detective.
- : a person remarkably adept at solving mysteries, especially by using insight and logical deduction: Who's the sherlock who can tell me where my pen is?
Examples
Volley, for example, has some “mature” games, like Love Taps, Sherlock, and Infected, which include explicit language and content aimed at an older audience.
There was Sherlock, an old Cray model, that warmed my heart.
Sherlock Holmes is a new millennium sex symbol with books, movies, and TV episodes introducing him to a new generation of fans.
Of course, you could protest that Sherlock did not really exist and the Ripper did.
LONDON — If Sherlock Holmes was such a smart detective, why was he not put on the case of Jack the Ripper?
He is a pudgy, bespectacled, homburg-wearing cuckold of a Sherlock in those fish-grey postwar years of 1970s England.
Conan Doyle eventually left medicine and created Sherlock Holmes, a character who brought science to the masses.
Vincent Alsop died; a presbyterian clergyman, who attacked Dr. Sherlock with great wit and some seriousness.
He shone as a polite scholar and a wit, and is famous for his controversy with Dr. Sherlock on the subject of the trinity.
He spent a great deal of his time on the front porch, finding it far from unpleasant to be regarded as a second Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes is the hero of the famous detective stories of Conan Doyle.
We speak of "a Sherlock Holmes" when we mean to describe some one who is very quick at finding out things.