By Sunita Nahar, BBC News

媒体英语会带大家一起学习BBC撰稿人在报道世界大事时常用到的单词和短语。

Background:背景：英国著名侦探小说人物夏洛克•福尔摩斯将在新的作者笔下起死回生。福尔摩斯新小说预计将在今年9月出版。

The character of Sherlock Holmes was originally created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle who featured him in four novels and more than 50 short stories.

After his death, his son Adrian wrote several stories featuring the famous Victorian detective, but critics say he was never that popular.

But it's the first time that the Arthur Conan Doyle estate has officially asked an author to write a new novel.

He has been named as Anthony Horowitz and is best known his Alex Rider children's series.

So was he dauntedby the challenge?

Anthony Horowitz:

"Well obviously, it was daunting to a certain extent and you are dealing with probably the most iconicdetective in the whole history of literature.

And the one thing I didn't want to do was to disappoint those really devoutfans, the sort of Sherlock Holmes Society and people who love these books.

But to be honest with you, I actually found it fairly easy to write because I have loved those books since I was 16 years old, I've read them two or three times during the course of my lifetime – in fact, my whole life as a writer of crime fiction myself was to a certain extent inspired by Doyle and I find the book not so scary as I thought it might be."

Anthony Horowitz says he's a devoted fan and aims to produce a first rate mystery for a modern audience.

• character [´kæriktə]   n.特性；性质；人物；字   (初中英语单词)
• writer [´raitə]   n.作者；作家   (初中英语单词)
• detective [di´tektiv]   n.侦探 a.侦探的   (初中英语单词)
• estate [i´steit]   n.财产；庄园；等级   (初中英语单词)
• obviously [´ɔbviəsli]   ad.明显地；显而易见地   (初中英语单词)
• extent [ik´stent]   n.长度；程度；范围   (初中英语单词)
• disappoint [,disə´pɔint]   vt.使失望；使....落空   (初中英语单词)
• actually [´æktʃuəli]   ad.事实上；实际上   (初中英语单词)
• mystery [´mistəri]   n.神秘；秘密；故弄玄虚   (初中英语单词)
• audience [´ɔ:diəns]   n.听众；观众；接见   (初中英语单词)
• originally [ə´ridʒənəli]   ad.本来；独创地   (高中英语单词)
• dealing [´di:liŋ]   n.交易；来往   (高中英语单词)
• lifetime [´laiftaim]   n.一生，终生，寿命   (高中英语单词)
• fiction [´fikʃən]   n.小说；虚构；谎言   (高中英语单词)
• scottish [´skɔtiʃ, ´skɑtiʃ]   a.&n.苏格兰人(的)   (英语四级单词)
• officially [ə´fiʃəli]   ad.以职员身份；正式   (英语四级单词)
• devoted [di´vəutid]   a.献身...的，忠实的   (英语四级单词)
• victorian [vik´tɔ:riən]   a.维多利亚女王时代的   (英语六级单词)
• devout [di´vaut]   a.虔诚的；热心的   (英语六级单词)