卷福和柯南·道爾真是親戚嗎

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卷福和柯南·道爾真是親戚嗎

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Is Benedict Cumberbatch "Directly Related" to Conan Doyle

"Sherlock" star Benedict Cumberbatch is "directly related" to the man who created his onscreen①onscreen adj. 銀幕上的adv. 銀幕上character around 130 years ago, according to Ancestry.com researchers.

Elementary, though, this discovery is not. The actor and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of a series of detective stories featuring the fictional②fictional 英 ['f?k??nl] adj. 虛構的；小說的Sherlock Holmes, are 16th cousins twice removed, the site claims.

Their common ancestor is John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and son of the 14th-century King Edward III of England. Gaunt is Cumberbatch's 17th great-grandfather③great-grandfather 曾祖父and Doyle's 15th great-grandfather. Living between 1340 and 1399, he became a patron④patron 英 ['pe?tr(?)n] 美 ['petr?n] n. 贊助人；保護人；主顧and close friend of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales.

"In this case, that proof came from documents that show family relationships. We looked at everything from church records of christenings and burials, censuses, newspaper announcements, land deeds, and tombstones⑤tombstone 英 ['tu?mst??n] 美 ['tumston] n. 墓碑；墓石," Ancestry.com historian Michelle Ercanbrack said in a statement. "When we

家譜網的研究員表示，“卷福”的扮演者本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇與130年前創作了福爾摩斯這個角色的那個人有“直接聯系”。

雖然，這個發現尚不完善，但家譜網聲稱，演員康伯巴奇與偵探小說系列《夏洛克·福爾摩斯》的作者柯南·道爾先生是隔了兩輩的第十六代表親。

他們共同的祖先是14世紀英國國王愛德華三世的兒子蘭開斯特公爵約翰·岡特。岡特是康伯巴奇的第十七代曾祖父，而且也是道爾的第十五代曾祖父。岡特生活于1340年～1399年，他是《坎特伯雷故事集》的作者杰弗里·喬叟的密友和贊助人。

“假若如此，證據就來自展示家族關系的文獻。我們查閱了教堂洗禮和葬禮的記錄、人口普查、報刊公告、地契以及墓碑等所有的記錄。”家譜網的歷史學家米歇爾·艾瑞坎布蘭克在一份聲明中說道，“在我們確定本尼迪克confirmed Benedict's connection to British Royalty, we tapped into well-established⑥well-established 英 ['weli'st?bli?t]adj. 得到確認的；固定下來的v. 已確立起來；固定下來（well-establish的過去分詞）genealogies⑦genealogy 英 [d?i?n?'?l?d??; d?en-]美 ['d?in?'?l?d?i] n. 宗譜；血統；家系；系譜學that opened up a lot of interesting possibilities."

Since 2010, Cumberbatch has played the famous sleuth⑧sleuth 英 [slu?θ] 美 [sluθ]n. 偵探；警犬vi. 做偵探；偵查alongside Martin Freeman's Dr. John Watson in the popular BBC series.

After a three-year hiatus, it returned for a fourth season ―with three new episodes ― on PBS.特和英國王室的聯系的時候，我們就挖掘了一下確立已久的宗譜，這也為我們提供了許多有趣的可能性。”

自2010年起，康伯巴奇就在英國廣播公司的這部熱播劇中飾演這位著名的偵探，并與扮演約翰·華生醫生的馬丁·弗里曼演對手戲。

停更三年后，《神探夏洛克》第四季在公共電視臺回歸，為觀眾奉上全新的三集內容。