Baker Street Irregular

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A casual assistant, especially in the context of detection or solving crime.
    — I'd be glad to hear anything you might dig up. You could be a kind of Baker Street Irregular yourself. But please understand, the way it stands now the Harkness death is classified as a suicide or accident.
  2. A fan of Sherlock Holmes stories.
    — This hope reflected Starrett's tongue-in-cheek faith as a Baker Street Irregular that Sherlock Holmes actually lived and that the stories about him were all factual, written by the faithful Doctor Watson from voluminous records.

词形变化

Baker Street Irregulars plural

词源

From the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, in which they were a group of street boys who assisted Holmes (who lived on Baker Street, London) with his investigations.
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