Mark_Twain______马克.吐温英文简介
Early life
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835, to a Tennessee country merchant, John Marshall Clemens(August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847), and Jane Lampton Clemens (June 18, 1803 –October 27, 1890).[4]John Marshall Clemens was the first of five children born to Samuel B Clemens and Pamela Goggin (1775–1844), who married on October 29, 1797 in Bedford County, Virginia.[5]
Twain was the sixth of seven children. Only three of his siblings survived childhood: his brother Orion(July 17, 1825 –December 11, 1897); Henry, who died in a riverboat explosion (July 13, 1838 – June 21, 1858); and Pamela (September 19, 1827 –August 31, 1904). His sister Margaret (May 31, 1830 – August 17, 1839) died when Twain was three, and his brother Benjamin (June 8, 1832 – May 12, 1842) died three years later. Another brother, Pleasant (1828–1829), died at six months.[6] Twain was born two weeks after the closest approach to Earth of Halley's Comet. On December 4, 1985, the United States Postal Service issued a stamped envelope for "Mark Twain and Halley's Comet." [7]
When Twain was four, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri,[8]a port town on the Mississippi River that inspired the fictional town of St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.[9] Missouri was a slave state and young Twain became familiar with the institution of slavery, a theme he would later explore in his writing.
Twain’s father was an attorney and a local judge.[10]The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was organized in his office in 1846. The railroad connected the second and third largest cities in the state and was the westernmost United States railroad until the Transcontinental Railroad. It delivered mail to and from the Pony Express.[11]
In March 1847, when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia.[12]The next year, he became a printer's apprentice. In 1851, he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper owned by his brother Orion. When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. He joined the union and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider information than at a conventional school.[13] At 22, Twain returned to Missouri.
On a voyage to New Orleans down the Mississippi, the steamboat pilot, Horace E. Bixby, inspired Twain to be a steamboat pilot. As Twain observed in Life on the Mississippi, the pilot surpassed a steamboat's captain in
prestige and authority; it was a rewarding occupation with wages set at $250 per month,[14]roughly equivalent to $72,400 a year today. A steamboat pilot needed to know the ever-changing river to be able to stop at the hundreds of ports and wood-lots. Twain studied 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of the Mississippi for more than two years before he received his steamboat pilot license in 1859.
While training, Samuel convinced his younger brother Henry to work with him. Henry was killed on June 21, 1858, when the steamboat on which he was working, the Pennsylvania, exploded. Twain had foreseen this death in a dream a month earlier,[15] which inspired his interest in parapsychology; he was an early member of the Society for Psychical Research.[16]Twain was guilt-stricken and held himself responsible for the rest of his life. He continued to work on the river and was a river pilot until the American Civil War broke out in 1861 and traffic along the Mississippi was curtailed.
Missouri was considered by many to be part of the South, and was represented in both the Confederate and Federal governments during the Civil War. Twain wrote a sketch, "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed", which claimed he and his friends had been Confederate volunteers for two weeks before disbanding their company.[17]
luck 马克吐温 中英文
I was at a dinner in London given in honor of one of the most celebrated1 English military men of his time. I do not want to tell you his real name and titles. I will just call him Lieutenant2 General Lord Arthur Scoresby. 我出席了一次在伦敦举行的为当时最著名的英国军人举行的宴会。我不想告诉你他真实的名字和头衔，我只想叫他阿瑟.斯考兹比爵士。 I cannot describe my excitement when I saw this great and famous man. There he sat, the man himself, in person, all covered with medals. I could not take my eyes off him. He seemed to show the true mark of greatness. His fame had no effect on him. The hundreds of eyes watching him, the worship of so many people, did not seem to make any difference to him. 当我见到这位伟大而著名的人物的时候，兴奋之情无以言表。他独自一人坐在那里，浑身戴满了勋章。我的注意力无法从他身上挪开，他好象就是真正伟大的标志。他的名望对他根本没什么影响，成百上千双敬佩的眼睛，那么多人的崇敬似乎对他没有一丝影响。 Next to me sat a clergyman, who was an old friend of mine. He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich. There was a strange look in his eye as he leaned toward me and whispered –“Privately –he is a complete fool.” He meant, of course, the hero of our dinner. 坐在我旁边的是一位牧师，我的一位老朋友。他并不是一直是个牧师，他的前半生在吾尔维希的军校当一名老师。当他向我斜着身子轻声说话的时候，眼睛里有一种奇怪的表情：“别跟别人说，他是个十足的傻子。”他，当然指的是宴会上的那位英雄。 This came as a shock to me. I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if he had said the same thing about Napoleon, or Socrates, or Solomon. 他的话使我感到很震惊。这比他说拿破伦或者苏格拉底或者所罗门王是傻子更令我吃惊。 But I was sure of two things about the clergyman. He always spoke3 the truth. And, his judgment4 of men was good. Therefore, I wanted to find out more about our hero as soon as I could.Some days later I got a chance to talk with the clergyman, and he told me more. These are his exact words: 但是，对于这位牧师，我有两点可以确信：他总是说实话和他对人的判断总是对的。因此，我想尽快找出我们那位大英雄的更多的秘密。几天以后，我找到了一个和这位牧师谈话的机会。下面就是他跟我说的，原文是：
高级英语课文翻译马克吐温
2009-05-03 21:00 高级英语Lesson 9. Mark Twain ---Mirror of America Noel Grove Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. In-deed, this nation's best-loved author was every bit as ad-venturous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined. I found another Twain as well – one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him, a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night. Tramp printer, river pilot , Confederate guerrilla, prospector, starry-eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic: The man who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life, digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer. He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days, signaling two fathoms (12 feet) of water -- a navigable depth. His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print, and translations are still read around the world. The geographic core, in Twain's early years, was the great valley of the Mississippi River, main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart. Keelboats ， flatboats , and large rafts carried the first major commerce. Lumber, corn, tobacco, wheat, and furs moved downstream to the delta country; sugar, molasses , cotton, and whiskey traveled north. In the 1850's, before the climax of westward expansion, the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States. Young Mark Twain entered that world in 1857 as a cub pilot on a steamboat. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied a cosmos . He participated abundantly in this life, listening to pilothouse talk of feuds , piracies, lynchings ,medicine shows, and savage waterside slums. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well. From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are. His four and a half year s in the steamboat trade marked the real beginning of his education, and the most lasting part of it. In later life Twain acknowledged that the river had acquainted him with every possible type
高级英语第一册马克吐温课文翻译以及词汇精编版.docx
???????????????????????最新料推荐??????????????????? 在大多数美国人的心目中，马克 ?吐温是位伟大作家，他描写了哈克 ?费恩永恒 的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程和汤姆 ?索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇 的故事。的确，这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及 幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。但我发现还有另一个不同的马克?吐温—— 一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克 ?吐温，一个为人 类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。 印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的 讽刺家：马克 ?吐温原名塞缪尔 ?朗赫恩 ?克莱门斯，他一生之中有超过三分之一 的时间浪迹美国各地，体验着美国的新生活，尔后便以作家和演说家的身分将他 所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。他的笔名取自他在蒸汽船上做工时听到的报告 水深为两口寻 (12 英尺 ) ——意即可以通航的信号语。他的作品中有二十几部至今 仍在印行，其外文译本仍在世界各地拥有读者，由此可见他的享誉程度。 在马克 ?吐温青年时代，美国的地理中心是密西西比河流域，而密西西比河是 这个年轻国家中部的交通大动脉。龙骨船、平底船和大木筏载运着最重要的商品。木材、玉米、烟草、小麦和皮货通过这些运载工具顺流而下，运送到河口三 角洲地区，而砂糖、糖浆、棉花和威士忌酒等货物则被运送到北方。在19 世纪50年代，西部领土开发高潮到来之前，辽阔的密西西比河流域占美国已开发领 土的四分之三。 1857 年，少年马克 ?吐温作为蒸汽船上的一名小领航员踏人了这片天地。在 这个新的工作岗位上，他接触到的是各式各样的人物，看到的是一个多姿多彩的 大干世界。他完全地投身到这种生活之中，经常在操舵室里听着人们谈论民间争 斗、海盗抢劫、私刑案件、游医卖药以及河边的一些化外民居的故事。所有这一 切，连同他那像留声机般准确可靠的记忆所吸收的丰富多彩的语言，后来都有机 会在他的作品中得以再现。 蒸汽船的甲板上不仅挤满了富有开拓精神的人们，而且也载着一些娼妓、赌 棍和歹徒等社会渣滓。从所有这些形形色色的人身上，马克?吐温敏锐地认识了人类，认识了人们的言与行之间的差距。他在蒸汽船上工作的四年半时间是他真 正接受教育的开端，而且也是最具有深远意义的教育。到了晚年，马克?吐温还声 言是密西西比河使他了解了各种各样的人的本性。这种生活体验对他的全部创作都 起了促进作用，然而他描写得最为成功的还是那些密西西比河上的人物。 随着铁路运输的发展，社会上对汽船领航员的需求日渐减少，而内战的爆发 又阻碍了商业贸易的发展。这时，马克 ?吐温便离开了密西西比河流域。他在南方 邦联游击队的一支杂牌队伍里当了两个星期的兵。那支队伍想方设法避免与敌军交战。在确信“我比发明撤退的人更精通撤退”之后，马克 ?吐温离开了那支队伍。 他乘驿站马车来到西部，在内华达州的华苏地区受到当时正流行的淘金热的 诱惑。同那只有既幸运而又锲而不舍的追求者才能取得的巨大财富三心二意地打 了八个月交道之后，他遭到了失败。在破产和灰心之余，他接受了为弗吉尼亚市
马克吐温的英语名言
马克吐温的英语名言 导读：本文是关于马克吐温的英语名言，如果觉得很不错，欢迎点评和分享！ 1、真相比小说还要不可思议。 The truth is even more incredible than fiction. 2、预言是人类唯一一项无法经由练习而改善的技术。 Prophecy is the only technology that can not be improved through practice. 3、人的思想是了不起的，只要专注于某一项事业，就一定会做出使自己感到吃惊的成绩来。 The human mind is great, as long as the focus on some cause, it will produce surprising results. 4、我在这一刻所看到的，将永远留在我的记忆里，永不消失，我会天天看到它，夜夜梦到它，直到我死。 At this moment, I will always stay in my memory and never disappear. I will see it every day and dream about it till I die. 5、经常要坦白地承认一项过失错误，这将使你的上司意料防备不及，才会给你一个机会去犯更多的错误。 Often frankly admit a mistake, it will make your boss to expect too much, will give you a chance to make more mistakes.
6、不要把事实告诉不值得的人。 Don't tell the truth to people who don't deserve it. 7、如果你实在没有办法从别人那得到一句赞美，那就自己送自己一句吧。 If you really have no way to get a compliment from others, then give yourself a bar. 8、可是最糟糕的还是你们男人家不愿意让女子受到能有所作为的教育，不愿意让她们凭自己的努力赚到堂堂正正的生活。她们所受的教育只是为了装装门面，好像她们一辈子只应该受人爱怜，靠男人吃饭，永远不会遭到不幸似的。 But the worst or you men reluctant to let the woman can make a difference in education, not willing to let them by their own efforts to earn a dignified life. Their education just to keep up appearances as if they a lifetime should only be lovingly, depend on a man to eat, never was unfortunate like. 9、谎言已走了半个世界，真话才在动身。 Lies have gone half of the world, the truth is leaving. 10、强者，藐视困难，弱者，仰视困难。 The strong, despise difficulties, the weak, look up to difficulties. 11、朗费罗幽默的秘密源泉并不是欢乐而是悲伤。天堂里没有幽默。
马克吐温课文翻译
高级英语第一册 unit9 - unit11的课文翻译 第九课 马克?吐温——美国的一面镜子 (节选) 诺埃尔?格罗夫 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 在大多数美国人的心目中，马克?吐温是位伟大作家，他描写了哈克?费恩永恒的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程和汤姆?索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇的故事。的确，这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。但我发现还有另一个不同的马克?吐温——一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克?吐温，一个为人类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。 印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的讽刺家：马克?吐温原名塞缪尔?朗赫恩?克莱门斯，他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间浪迹美国各地，体验着美国的新生活，尔后便以作家和演说家的身分将他所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。他的笔名取自他在蒸汽船上做工时听到的报告水深为两口寻(12英尺)——意即可以通航的信号语。他的作品中有二十几部至今仍在印行，其外文译本仍在世界各地拥有读者，由此可见他的享誉程度。 在马克?吐温青年时代，美国的地理中心是密西西比河流域，而密西西比河是这个年轻国家中部的交通大动脉。龙骨船、平底船和大木筏载运着最重要的商品。木材、玉米、烟草、小麦和皮货通过这些运载工具顺流而下，运送到河口三角洲地区，而砂糖、糖浆、棉花和威士忌酒等货物则被运送到北方。在19世纪50年代，西部领土开发高潮到来之前，辽阔的密西西比河流域占美国已开发领土的四分之三。 1857年，少年马克?吐温作为蒸汽船上的一名小领航员踏人了这片天地。在这个新的工作岗位上，他接触到的是各式各样的人物，看到的是一个多姿多彩的大干世界。他完全地投身到这种生活之中，经常在操舵室里听着人们谈论民间争斗、海盗抢劫、私刑案件、游医卖药以及河边的一些化外民居的故事。所有这一切，连同他那像留声机般准确可靠的记忆所吸收的丰富多彩的语言，后来都有机会在他的作品中得以再现。 蒸汽船的甲板上不仅挤满了富有开拓精神的人们，而且也载着一些娼妓、赌棍和歹徒等社会渣滓。从所有这些形形色色的人身上，马克?吐温敏锐地认识了人类，认识了人们的言与行之间的差距。他在蒸汽船上工作的四年半时间是他真正接受教育的开端，而且也是最具有深远意义的教育。到了晚年，马克?吐温还声言是密西西比河使他了解了各种各样的人的本性。这种生活体验对他的全部创作都起了促进作用，然而他描写得最为成功的还是那些密西西比河上的人物。 随着铁路运输的发展，社会上对汽船领航员的需求日渐减少，而内战的爆发又阻碍了商业贸易的发展。这时，马克?吐温便离开了密西西比河流域。他在南方邦联游击队的一支杂牌队伍里当了两个星期的兵。那支队伍想方设法避免与敌军交战。在确信“我比发明撤退的人更精通撤退”之后，马克?吐温离开了那支队伍。
Mark_Twain______马克.吐温英文简介
Early life Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835, to a Tennessee country merchant, John Marshall Clemens(August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847), and Jane Lampton Clemens (June 18, 1803 –October 27, 1890).[4]John Marshall Clemens was the first of five children born to Samuel B Clemens and Pamela Goggin (1775–1844), who married on October 29, 1797 in Bedford County, Virginia.[5] Twain was the sixth of seven children. Only three of his siblings survived childhood: his brother Orion(July 17, 1825 –December 11, 1897); Henry, who died in a riverboat explosion (July 13, 1838 – June 21, 1858); and Pamela (September 19, 1827 –August 31, 1904). His sister Margaret (May 31, 1830 – August 17, 1839) died when Twain was three, and his brother Benjamin (June 8, 1832 – May 12, 1842) died three years later. Another brother, Pleasant (1828–1829), died at six months.[6] Twain was born two weeks after the closest approach to Earth of Halley's Comet. On December 4, 1985, the United States Postal Service issued a stamped envelope for "Mark Twain and Halley's Comet." [7] When Twain was four, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri,[8]a port town on the Mississippi River that inspired the fictional town of St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.[9] Missouri was a slave state and young Twain became familiar with the institution of slavery, a theme he would later explore in his writing. Twain’s father was an attorney and a local judge.[10]The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was organized in his office in 1846. The railroad connected the second and third largest cities in the state and was the westernmost United States railroad until the Transcontinental Railroad. It delivered mail to and from the Pony Express.[11] In March 1847, when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia.[12]The next year, he became a printer's apprentice. In 1851, he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper owned by his brother Orion. When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. He joined the union and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider information than at a conventional school.[13] At 22, Twain returned to Missouri. On a voyage to New Orleans down the Mississippi, the steamboat pilot, Horace E. Bixby, inspired Twain to be a steamboat pilot. As Twain observed in Life on the Mississippi, the pilot surpassed a steamboat's captain in
马克吐温简介 英文
If you have nothing to say, say nothing. ----- Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better recognized as Mark Twain, whose quotes are as famous as the man himself. He is the most famous humorist of America and the author of travel books，novels and popular and outstanding autobiographical works. T oday I’d like to say something about him. One day, Mark Twain received a letter from a young man, who wanted to ask him about his secret of becoming a great writer. He wrote like that, dear writer, I have heard about that the fish contains much nutrition which is good for our brain, then I guess you must have eaten a lot of fish, but I wonder，which kind of fish you chose and how much you ate? And Mark Twain replied, well, it seems that you should take a whole big shark. Ok, boys and girl. I don’t know if you have understood the story. If not, I suggest you read some of his novels by yourself, which will never disappoint you. And after amused by his attractive stories, I‘d like to say something about the significance behind his humor, combining with satire. This kind of writing style has much to do with the way of his upbringing and the times in which he lived. Firstly, Mark Twain had experienced ups and downs in his whole life. Born in a poor family, he lost his father in 12. Struggling for a lifetime, he was trapped by heavy debt. Although succeeded in paying all his debts by making a lecturing tour abroad, he ruined his own health. What’s worse, in this period it occurred that the deaths of his son, daughters and wife. Through his rough experience, you may understand his changing from idealism to pessimism in his novels, especially the novels of his later life. Secondly, he lived in the stirring years in American history, and that’s why he was called him mirror of America. As an outstanding representatives of critical realism, he exposed the hypocrisy of American democracy and freedom, he showed us racial discrimination in the civil War by the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, criticized consumerism in the Gold Rush by the Million Pound Note, uncovered expansion and aggression in The American-Mexican War and The American-Spanish war and denounced the church's hypocrisy by The Story Of The Bad Little Boy. As is known to all, Mark Twain is a great humorist and satirist. But his humor is not for amusement, but to make human beings more perfect and more ideal by enlarge the posters by exaggeration.
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A: Good morning, everyone. Happy to see you all in the English corner. I’m your friend, Vivian. B: I’m Shawn. In today’s program, we’ll introduce a famous American author Mark Twain. A: ok, let’s start. A: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel.’’ Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry. He developed a close and lasting friendship with Nicola Tesla, and the two spent much time together in Tesla's laboratory. B: Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse, but evolved into a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, with Huckleberry Finn, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative and social criticism. Twain was a master at rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language. Many of Twain's works have been suppressed at times for various reasons. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been repeatedly restricted in American high