马克吐温(英文版)
马克吐温的名言英文版
马克吐温的名言英文版1. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.2. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience:this is the ideal life.3. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.4. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.5. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.6. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.7. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.The world owes you nothing. It was here first.8. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.9. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.10. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.11. The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.12. Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.13. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.14. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.15. The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.16. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.17. Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.18. There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.19. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.20. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.21. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.22. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.23. The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.24. The lack of money is the root of all evil.25. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.26. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.27. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.28. The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.29. The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.30. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.31. When in doubt, tell the truth.32. The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.33. There are lies, damned lies and statistics.34. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.35. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.36. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.37. Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.38. Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.39. If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.40. The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.41. Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.42. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.43. There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.44. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.45. The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.46. Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.47. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.48. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.49. Out of the public schools grows the greatness of a nation.50. Repartee is something we think of 24 hours too late.51. Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.52. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.53. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.。
马克吐温英文介绍PPT课件
The Name of Mark Twain
Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens."Mark Twain",which means"watermark two",was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warn shipmates that they were coming into shallow water.
Fourth part. (Others)
1.His Famous Words 2.A Mirror of America
PART ONE
First part. (His exeperience) 1.Early life experience 2.His Marriage 3.In His Middle Ages 4.His Later Life 5.His Death
Second part. (His writing) 1.Mark Twain and the Mississippi. 2.Major Works. 3.Writing Features
third part. (Writing style) 1.Life and Writing 2.a Local Colorist e of Vernacular 4.Humor
MARK TWIN OF MISSISSIPPI
A Mirror of America
LET’S GO
CONTENTS
First part. (His exeperience) 1.Early life experience 2.His Marriage 3.In His Middle Ages 4.His Later Life 5.His Death
英文介绍马克吐温
1、真相比小说还要不可思议。 The truth is even more incredible than fiction. 2、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. 3、在所有的动物中，只有人类是残忍的。他们是唯一将快乐建立在制造痛苦之上的动 物。 Of all the animals, only human beings are cruel. They are the only animals that will be happy to create pain. 4、勇气不是缺乏恐惧心理，而是对恐惧心理的抵御和控制能力。 Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to resist and control the fear.
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Marriage and children
Charles Langdon showed a picture of his sister, Olivia, to Twain; Twain claimed to have fallen in love at first sight.
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Travels
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Later Life
马克吐温作者简介英语版
马克吐温作者简介英语版Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, and passed away on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut.Twain began his writing career working as a journalist in the American west, writing for various newspapers and journals. He rose to fame with his novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," published in 1876, and its sequel, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published in 1885, which is widely considered to be his masterpiece.In addition to his writing, Twain was also a successful businessman, investing in various ventures, including typesetting machines and a publishing house. He was also a popular lecturer, touring the United States and Europe to give speeches on a wide range of topics.Twain was known for his wit and humor, and his writing often dealt with social and political issues of the time, including slavery, race relations, and imperialism. He was a satirist who used his humor to expose the flaws and hypocrisy of society.Mark Twain remains one of America's most beloved and influential writers, and his works continue to be read and enjoyed by people all over the world.。
百万英镑(马克.吐温)t
百万英镑英文版The Million Pound NoteWhen I was twenty-seven years old, I was amining-broker's clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect. My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to put it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. One day I ventured too far, and was carried out to sea. Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I was picked up by a small brig which was bound for London. It was a long and stormy voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor. When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar in my pocket. This money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours. During the next twenty-four I went without food and shelter.About ten o'clock on the following morning, seedy and hungry, I was dragging myself along Portland Place,when a child that was passing, towed by a nurse-maid, tossed a luscious big pear—minus one bite—into the gutter. I stopped, of course, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. My mouth watered for it, my stomach craved it, my whole being begged for it. But every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked indifferent, and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all. This same thing kept happening and happening, and I couldn't get the pear. I was just getting desperate enough to brave all the shame, and to seize it, when a window behind me was raised, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying:"Step in here, please."I was admitted by a gorgeous flunkey, and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. They sent away the servant, and made me sit down. They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.You will remember that the Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds each, to be used for a special purpose connected with some public transaction with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one of these had been used and canceled; the other still lay in the vaults of the Bank. Well, the brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wondering what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned adrift in London without a friend, and with no money but that million-pound bank-note, and no way to account for his being in possession of it. Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn't. Brother A said he couldn't offer it at a bank or anywhere else, because he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on disputing till Brother B said hewould bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days, anyway, on that million, and keep out of jail, too. Brother A took him up. Brother B went down to the Bank and bought that note. Just like an Englishman, you see; pluck to the backbone. Then he dictated a letter, which one of his clerks wrote out in a beautiful round hand, and then the two brothers sat at the window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to.I would have picked up the pear now and eaten it before all the world, but it was gone; so I had lost that by this unlucky business, and the thought of it did not soften my feeling towards those men. As soon as I was out of sight of that house I opened my envelope, and saw that it contained money! My opinion of those people changed, I can tell you! I lost not a moment, but shoved note and money into my vest pocket, and broke for the nearest cheap eating house. Well, how I did eat! When at last I couldn't hold any more, I took out my money and unfolded it, took one glimpse and nearly fainted. Five millions of dollars! Why, it made my head swim.I must have sat there stunned and blinking at the note as much as a minute before I came rightly to myself again.The first thing I noticed, then, was the landlord. His eye was on the note, and he was petrified. He was worshiping, with all his body and soul, but he looked as if he couldn't stir hand or foot. I took my cue in a moment, and did the only rational thing there was to do. I reached the note towards him, and said, carelessly:"Give me the change, please."Then he was restored to his normal condition, and made a thousand apologies for not being able to break the bill, and I couldn't get him to touch it. He wanted to look at it, and keep on looking at it; he couldn't seem to get enough of it to quench the thirst of his eye, but he shrank from touching it as if it had been something too sacred for poor common clay to handle. I said:"I am sorry if it is an inconvenience, but I must insist. Please change it; I haven't anything else."But he said that wasn't any matter; he was quite willing to let the trifle stand over till another time. I said I might not be in his neighborhood again for a good while; but he said it was of no consequence, he could wait, and, moreover, I could have anything I wanted, any time I chose, and let the account run as long as I pleased. Hesaid he hoped he wasn't afraid to trust as rich a gentleman as I was, merely because I was of a merry disposition, and chose to play larks on the public in the matter of dress. By this time another customer was entering, and the landlord hinted to me to put the monster out of sight; then he bowed me all the way to the door, and I started straight for that house and those brothers, to correct the mistake which had been made before the police should hunt me up, and help me do it. I was pretty nervous; in fact, pretty badly frightened, though, of course, I was no way in fault; but I knew men well enough to know that when they find they've given a tramp a million-pound bill when they thought it was a one-pounder, they are in a frantic rage against him instead of quarreling with their own near-sightedness, as they ought. As I approached the house my excitement began to abate, for all was quiet there, which made me feel pretty sure the blunder was not discovered yet. I rang. The same servant appeared. I asked for those gentlemen."They are gone." This in the lofty, cold way of that fellow's tribe."Gone? Gone where?""On a journey.""But whereabouts?""To the Continent, I think.""The Continent?""Yes, sir.""Which way—by what route?""I can't say, sir."百万英镑中文版百万英镑(马克.吐温)二十七岁那年，我正给旧金山的一个矿业经济人打工，把证券交易所的门槛摸得清清楚楚。
马克吐温的主要作品英文版
• 他指出人类应该摒弃宗教 幻想，依靠自己而不是上 帝的力量，去创造一个更 加完美的世界。
Trilogy of Mississippi (密西西比河三部曲)
Works
The mysterious stranger 《神秘的陌生人》
Other works
Writing Characteristics
Famous Saying
Trilogy of Mississippi (密西西比河三部曲)
• The innocent abroad《傻子出国记》
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg • 《败坏了哈德莱堡的人》
• Roughing It • 《苦行记》
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • 《汤姆·索亚历险记》
马克·吐温 四大名著
Life on the
Mississippi 《密西西比河上》
The Adventures
The Adventures of
of Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
（汤姆索亚历险记) 《哈克贝利•费恩历险记》
Life on the Mississippi” 《密西西 比河上》
This work is a memoir/’memwa:/ (回忆录) by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War
马克吐温mark Twain英文简介
Twain was popular, and his wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers. Upon his death he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age"，and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".
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❖ 1899 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 败坏了哈德莱堡的人
A Brief Assessment
Helen Keller : I have been in Eden three days and I saw a king .I knew he was a king when I touched him though I had never touched a king before.
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(1835-1910)
• His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. • an American author and humorist • a journalist who satirized the hypocrisy of man and society
Comments on Mark Twain
Mark Twain enjoyed immense public popularity. His keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature". He was the first real American writer, and he was called “Lincoln of the literature”.
On February 2, 1870, Twain married Olivia Langdon, the only daughter of a wealthy New York businessman. .
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By 1900 Twain had become America’s foremost celebrity. He was invited to attend anniversary gatherings, political conventions, and countless dinners. Reporters met him at every port of call, anxious to print a new quip from the famous humorist.
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• Mark Twain died of illness on April 21, 1910. When he passed away, newspapers around the country declared, “The whole world is mourning.”
Writing Characteristics of Mark Twain
• Humor • Satire.
• Colloquial idioms and syntax.
Writing Characteristics of Mark Twain
• Mark Twain was a writer who had the characteristics of United States. Twain is a true American writer born and grown in the United States. He has his own ideas, created through his eyes and unique language. He has no shadow of Europe and Feudal culture at all. He is a local, western writers of the Americas. • Mark Twain succeed of his language skills. He just a primary and learned words form the common person. He created a new style of American literature language based on the popular language, opened a new generation of American literature.
“Mark twain” was a call used by sailors.
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• In 1863,he worked at a Virginia City newspaper. Here he first used his pen name. • In 1864,Twain moved to San Francisco, still as a journalist. • His first success as a writer came when his humorous tall tale, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," was published in 1865. It brought him national attention.
T w a in ’s g re a te s t fa m e a n d h is im p o rta n c e in A m e ric a n lite ra tu re re s t la rg e ly o n h is tw o b e s t k n o w n n o v e ls ,
T he A dve nture s of T om S a w ye r 《汤姆· 索亚历险记 》
T he A dve nture s of H uckle be rry F inn 《哈克费恩历险记 》
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Running for Governor《竞选州长》 The £ 1,000,00镀金时代》 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ( his first story) 《卡拉维拉斯县驰名的跳蛙》 • The innocent abroad《傻子出国记》 • • • • • • • • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 《败坏了哈德莱堡的人》 Roughing It 《苦行记》 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《汤姆· 索亚历险记》 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝利· 费恩历险记》
the failure of his investments, his fatiguing travels and lectures in order to pay off his debts, the death of his wife and two daughters the darkening social life Some critics link these tragic events with the change of style in his later works, from an optimist and humorist to an almost despairing determinist.
During his seventeen years in Hartford (1874–1891) and over twenty summers at Quarry Farm, Twain wrote many of his classic novels： • The Prince and the Pauper (1881) 《王子与贫儿》 • Life on the Mississippi (1883) 《密西西比河上的生活》 • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) 《误闯亚瑟王宫》
Mark Twain Questions
• 1. What does "Mark Twain" mean? 12 feet deep or 3.66 meters deep. • 2. How old was Twain when he began writing stories? 32 years old • 3. How do you know that he loved Mississippi River very much? Three of his most famous books describe people on this great river. His penname is about the river.
From 1857 to 1861,Twain worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. This occupation gave him his pen name, Mark Twain.
On Mississippi riverboats, two fathoms, a depth indicating safe water for passage of boat, was measured on the sounding line.
Other works
马克· 吐温 四大名著
Writing Characteristics of Mark Twain
• • • • Early stage: Active & humor like a sharp weapon Mid-term: Satire（讽刺） Later period-Pessimistic & desperate He used a lot of colloquial idioms（俚语） and colloquial syntax（口语）and made his writing full of allegories（寓言） that lay behind the humor.
Writing Characteristics of Mark Twain
• Literature is an art of language. Mark Twain’s language is artistic and like a sharp weapon without doubt. Mark Twain is famous for his humor and satire. • Mark Twain’s humor is based on the humor of the Western in America. • He used a lot of colloquial idioms and colloquial syntax. • He often described persons who was innocent, simple, naive, and ignorant as his heroes or heroines. • He used the artistic style of hyperbole（夸张法）on the basis of the western traditional humor and made his writing full of allegories（寓意）that lay behind the humor.