1. He is a red head

He has been dying his hair black for a while for Sherlock and kept it dark for Star Trek. In fact， Cumberbatch has much lighter auburn2） hair.

2. He almost wasn't an actor

"My parents worked incredibly hard to give me a very privileged education so I could do anything but be as stupid as them and become an actor，" the actor said. Indeed， Cumberbatch intended to become a lawyer at the urging of his parents. "Unfortunately I didn't pay any attention， like a lot of children， to my parents' wise words，" he said.

3. He moonlights3） as an audiobook reader

The next time you buy a book on tape， listen much more attentively to the person reading the prose. Cumberbatch has lent his voice to many audiobooks including a Shakespeare title and Sherlock Holmes： The Rediscovered Railway Mysteries and Other Stories.

4. He doesn't understand why he's

a sex symbol

Cumberbatch has women swooning4）， and the actor is taken aback5） by all the attention. He told The Mirror： "Do I like being thought of as attractive？ I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't， but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I've lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts6） for certain things about me. It's not me being humble. I just think it's weird."

1. 他長著一頭紅發(fā)

拍攝《神探夏洛克》時，卷福暫時把頭發(fā)染成了黑色，在拍攝《星際迷航》時也一直保留著黑發(fā)。事實上，他的發(fā)色淺多了，是紅棕色的。

2. 他差一點就當不了演員

“我父母極其賣力地工作，讓我接受精英教育，這樣我就可以從事任何其他行業(yè)，而不必像他們那樣傻乎乎地去做演員?！边@位演員說道。其實，在父母的強烈要求下，卷福本來打算做一名律師?！斑z憾的是，和許多小孩一樣，我沒有把父母給我的明智建議放在心上?！彼f。

3. 他兼職擔任有聲讀物朗誦者

下次再買有聲讀物時，要更加專心地聽朗誦者讀。卷福已為多部有聲讀物“獻聲”，其中包括莎士比亞的一部作品（譯注：即《暴風雨》）以及《福爾摩斯：再現(xiàn)鐵路之謎和其他故事》。

4. 他不明白自己為什么會是一位性感偶像

女人們?yōu)榫砀Ｉ窕觐嵉?，而他卻對所有這些關注驚訝不已。他曾在《鏡報》上說：“我喜歡被別人認為有魅力嗎？我不知道天底下有誰會不喜歡，可我真覺得這挺逗的。我從鏡子中能看到35年來一直陪伴我的各種缺點，但粉絲們卻近乎瘋狂地喜歡我的某些方面。我不是謙虛，我只是覺得這很怪異。”

1. stealthy [?stelθi] adj. 悄悄的；偷偷摸摸的

2. auburn [???b?n] adj. （頭發(fā)）紅棕色的

3. moonlight [?mu?nla?t] vi. 兼職（尤指不為專職工作的雇主和稅收部門知道）

4. swoon [swu?n] vi. 癡迷；神魂顛倒

5. take aback： 使震驚；使驚呆

6. nuts [n?ts] adj. [俗]發(fā)瘋的；發(fā)狂的endprint