高中英語閱讀短文馬克吐溫
Ⅰ 雙語故事馬克吐溫給年輕人的忠告
獲悉人們希望我在這里講幾句時,我就問他們我該講些什麼。接下來,我給大家准備了雙語 故事 馬克吐溫給年輕人的忠告,歡迎大家參考與借鑒。
雙語故事馬克吐溫給年輕人的忠告
Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice.
獲悉人們希望我在這里講幾句時,我就問他們我該講些什麼。他們希望我講些適合年輕人的東西-一些教誨性、有 教育 意義的東西,或是一些好的建議。
Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends-and I say it beseechingly, urgingly.
這太好了!我倒是一直想給年輕人提點建議呢,因為人在年輕時期,好的建議極易在心底紮根,並能終生受用。那麼,首先,年輕朋友們-我要真 誠地告誡你們:
Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don’t, they will make you.
一定要聽父母的話,長遠來講這是最聰明的做法,如果你不聽話,他們就會逼著你聽話。
Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
大多數父母認為他們知道得 比你們多,在這種情況下,與其基於自己的判斷行事,還不如迎合他們的想法,這樣你會收獲更多。
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient.
如果你有上級的話,請尊重他們,對陌生人和他人也是如此。如果某個人得罪了你,而你也不知道他是否是故意的,那就不要採用極端做法,而要等待時機,給他當頭一棒,這就夠了。
If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didn’t mean to.
如果發現他並非有意傷害你,那麼,你就應該站出來,坦白承認教訓他的事;要像一個男子漢一樣承認錯誤並說明自己 並非有意。還有就是,切勿使用暴力。
Yes, always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
在這個和平友好的年代, 暴力已經過時了。讓我們譴責這些低俗的舉止、粉碎暴力吧!
Go to bed early, get up early- this is wise. Some authorities say get up with the sun; some say get up with one thing, others with another. But a lark is really the best thing to get up with.
早睡早起-這是十分明智的。有些人主動起床,也有些人被迫起床。當然在百靈鳥的歌聲中起床是最愜意不過了。
It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark; and if you get the right kind of lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half past nine, every time-it’s no trick at all.
當人人都知道你與百靈鳥同迎清晨,你便會備受稱贊,如果你得 到一隻中意的百靈鳥,並按自己的意願訓練它,讓他九點半, 甚至是任何時候起床都不是件難事-當然,這並不是說要耍詭計。
Now as to the matter of lying, you want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be in the eyes to the good and the pure, what you were before.
現在,我們來談談說謊吧。要說謊,就得小心謹慎,否則 很容易穿幫。一旦被揭穿,別人就不再認為你是善良的和純潔的,他們眼中的你就不是從前的你了。
Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill finished lie, the result of carelessness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all.
很多年輕人就因為一個笨拙或並不圓滿的謊言永遠地傷害了自己,原因在於他們不夠謹慎且缺乏訓練。有些人認為,年輕人不能撒謊。
That of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, andI believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.
當然,這有些偏激。我不會這么偏激,而是始終相信自己是有道理的,我 認為,年輕人應適當運用這門偉大的藝術,通過訓練和實踐, 他們將變得自信、優雅和精確,而這些恰恰可以使他們完美出色地完成任務。
Patience, diligence, painstaking attention to detail-these are requirements; these in time, will make the student perfect; upon these only, may he rely as the sure foundation for future eminence.
耐心、勤奮和對細節的認真揣摩-都是年輕人必須具備的條件。隨著時間的流逝,這些要素將會使你們日臻完美,而你們也只有仰仗這些要素才能成就日後的輝煌。
Think what tedious years of study, thought, practice, experience, went to the equipment of that peerless old master who was able to impose upon the whole world the lofty and sounding maxim that "Truth is mighty and will prevail the most majestic compound fracture of fact which any of man born has yet achieved.
想想那位無可匹敵的大師吧,多年沉悶乏味的學習、思考、實踐 和練習才使他得以在世人面前說出這樣的經典語句一一 「真理 有著巨大的力量,並將戰勝一切」-這是最偉大的悖論,是凡人所能達到的最高境界。
For the history of our race, and each indivial’s experience, are sewn thick with evidences that a truth is not hard to kill, and that a lie well told is immortal. There is in Boston a monument of the man who discovered anesthesia; many people are aware, in these latter days, that that man didn’t discover it at all, but stole the discovery from another man. Is this truth mighty, and will it prevail? Ah no, my hearers, the monument is made of hardy material, but the lie it tells will outlast it a million years.
歷史和個人的經歷都深刻地表明真理易被推翻,但絕妙的謊言卻永遠顛撲不破。波士頓立有一座紀念麻醉術發明者的紀念碑。但後來,很多人發現,這個人 根本不是麻醉術的發明者,他不過是竊取了他人的成果。真理的力量真的很強大嗎?它能戰勝一切嗎?哦,不,朋友們,那座紀念碑是用很堅固的材料做成,但它所昭示的謊言將比紀念碑本身還要久一百萬年。
An awkward, feeble, leaky lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid; such a lie as that has no more real permanence than an average truth. Why, you might as well tell the truth at once and be done with it. A feeble, stupid, preposterous lie will not live two years-except it be a slander upon somebody.
笨拙、沒有說服力和漏洞百出的謊言是你應當通過不斷學習去避免的,這樣的謊言還不及一般真理長久。為什麼呢,你還是說出真相吧,現在就說。一個沒有說服力、可笑、荒謬的謊言不會存在兩年-除非它是對某人的誹謗。
It is indestructible, then of course, but that is no merit of yours. A final word: begin your practice of this gracious and beautiful art early-begin now. If I had begun earlier, I could have learned how.
當然,這樣的謊言牢不可破,但這對你的名譽沒有什麼 f好處。一句話:盡早練習這門高尚而美麗的藝術吧-現在就開始。要是我當年入門早,現在就已經學會了。
There are many sorts of books; but good ones are the sort for the young to read. Remember that. They are a great, an inestimable, and unspeakable means of improvement. Therefore be careful in your selection, my young friends; be very careful; confine yourselves exclusively to Robertson’s Sermons, Baxter’s Saint’s Rest, The Innocents Abroad, and works of that kind.
書有各種各樣的,但好書才適合年輕人閱讀。請記住,好 書能讓你不斷完善自身,這種作用力強大,不可估量且難以名 狀。因此,年輕的朋友們,請謹慎選擇你們的讀物,要十分謹慎。你們應該專門讀羅伯遜的《道德啟示錄》、巴克斯特的《聖徒的安息》和《傻瓜 出國 記》等作品。
But I have said enough. I hope you will treasure up the instructions which I have given you, and make them a guide to your feet and a light to your understanding. Build your character thoughtfully and painstakingly upon these precepts, and by and by, when you have got it built, you will be surprised and gratified to see how nicely and sharply it resembles everybody else’s.
我說得已經夠多了。我希望你們能珍惜這些建議,讓它們成為你的向導,點燃你們思想的火花。按照這些建議去努力培養自己的性格吧。慢慢地,一旦你塑造好了自己的性格,你將驚喜而欣慰地發現自己和他人是如此相似。
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Ⅱ 寫馬克吐溫的作文英語作文50詞
寫作思路:介紹馬克吐溫的身份和他的成就。正文如下:
Mark Twain(1835-1910),one of the best known American writers in the 19th century,was born in Missouri in the middle part of the United States.
Mark Twain』s hometown lay on the banks of the Mississippi River,where he spent his childhood. When he grew up he worked as a pilot on a river boat for some time. Mark Twain is his pen name. He took it from the shout of the sailors measuring the depth of the water when the water was two marks deep on the lead line.
Mark Twain wrote a lot of novels,one of which is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,the masterpiece which brought him fame and honor. Some of his writings have been translated into many languages. He and his works are deeply loved by readers throughout the world.
翻譯:馬克吐溫(1835~1910),生於美國Missouri,他是美國19世紀著名的作家之一。他的家鄉位於密西西北河畔。成年後,他曾在密西西北河的船上當水手。馬克吐溫是他的筆名,由水文測量標上「兩個刻度(two marks)」而得。
他寫過很多小說。其中最著名的是《湯姆索耶歷險記》(Tom Sawyer)。他的作品被譯成多國文字,深受世界讀者喜愛。
Ⅲ 介紹馬克吐溫的英語作文60詞
第一篇
Mark Twain - A Brief Assessment
As one of America's first and foremost realists a humorists, Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens usually wrote about his own personal experiences and and things he knew about from firsthand experience. His life spanned the two Americas, the frontier America that proced so much of national mythology and the emerging urban, instrial giant of the 20th century. At the heart of Twain'雹讓桐s achievement is his creation of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, who embody the mythic America, midway between the wilderness and the model state.
The Gilded Age, came in 1873. It was one of the first novels, which tried to describe the new morality (or immorality) of post-Civil War America. One of the new elements of this novel is that it creates a picture of the entire nation, rather than of just one region. Although it has a number of Twain's typically hu
第二篇
The author introce:Mark Twain, (Mark Twain l 835~1910)
American writer.The autonym fills Miu Er ·the boon of Lang He ·gram Lai door Si.Mark ·vomit is its pen name.It was born at side little city Hannibal of Mississippi's a lawyer's family with poor country, went out to do obeisance teacher apprentice since the childhood.When lead a typesetter, Mississippi sailor, south non-commissioned officer soldier, also once concted the timber instry, mineral instry and the publish instry, but valid of the work be a reporter and write humor literature. Mark ·vomit is the United States to criticize realism literature of lay foundation stone a person, the short story master of Zhao in the world.He experienced the United States from the "freedom"源坦 property origin a doctrine to imperialistic of development process, its thought and creations also expresses for adjust to smile mordacity'滑槐s irony to arrive a pessimism cynical development stage again from the agility.His earlier period create, like short story 《unexpectedly choose eparch (1870)》, 《elder brother Er Si the airtight friend once more goes abroad (1870)》etc., with humor, humorous American"the democracy elect" of the style of writing derision of absurd with the essence of"democracy heaven".Middle work, like novel 《plate with gold ages 》(1874,
Match with Warner to write), representative work novel 《admire a gram a shell inside ·the fee boon go through dangers to record (1886)》and 《simpleton Pete Wilson (1893)》etc., then with deeply sink, mordacity of style of writing irony with make public to be like an epidemic sort widely accepted in the United States of speculation, do obeisance a gold wildly hot, and the social reality of complete darkness and cruelly grow a clan bias.《Admire gram shell inside ·the fee boon go through dangers to record 》pass white man a kid admire gram with flee from home a Negro slave Ji Mu to accompany the story which wanders about in Mississippi, not only criticize the barbarism that the feudalism family becomes enemies with a turf war, make public have no of lynch reasonableness, and irony religion of false ignorant, rebuke the Xu Nu system of crime, and the song Song Negro slave's excellent quality, publicity not divide race position the everyone all possesses the progress assertion of free right.The work writing is delightfully fresh and emollient and examine angle natural and special, is see as the realism work of have the meaning of row the ages in American literary history.Turn into an imperialistic development stage along with the United States at the end of 19 centuries, mark ·vomit some swim to record, miscellaneous text, political commentary, such as 《wreath line in the equator record (1897)》, novelette 《corrupt admire virtuous Lai fortress of person (1900)》 , 《mysterious visitor (1916)》etc. of the judgment make public the meaning also dies down graally, but the despair mysterious motion then has elongation. Mark ·vomit to be praise for"Lincoln in the American literature".His main work has already mostly had Chinese to translate an origin.
第三篇
When be wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain turned Hannibal, Missouri—which he later described as a 「white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer』s morning」 — into an American literary Mecca. No other town in the country has stronger associations with an author, and Twain readily acknowledged its role in his success.
The relationship between Hannibal and Twain began in November 1839, when Twain』s father, John Clemens, decided to leave the hamlet of Florida, Missouri, and move east about 35 miles(56km) to the somewhat larger and more prosperous Hannibal, on the banks of the Mississippi River. Twain, then known as Samuel Clemens, marked his fourth birthday about a week after the family settled there. He showed little promise of becoming a long-term resident. However, because his health was so poor that his parents probably feared he would not survive childhood.
During the family』s first few years in Hannibal, Twain was too young to understand fully the changes going on around him. John Clemens, though trained as a lawyer, tried to support his family by running a store and speculating in real estate. When those ventures failed. Clemens was forced to postpone his plans to establish a permanent home for the family.
About 1843, he began concentrating on the practice of law, a decision that brought some stability to the family finances and enabled him to have a house built. Construction began in 1843, and the family moved into the new house the next year. Situated on Hill Street, near the center of town, the modest two-story frame house attracted little attention ring the years when the family called it home. The kitchen, dining room and parlor were on the first floor, and three bedrooms, along with a small wardrobe room, were upstairs.
About the time the family moved into their new home. Twain』s health improved dramatically. Instead of having to lead a quiet indoor life, he could roam the streets of Hannibal. Climb the surrounding hills, explore the area』s caves and splash about in local swimming holes. He reveled in his newfound freedom, spending nearly all his free time playing outdoors with the other boys in town and soon becoming a leader. One member of his gang was Twain』s and became a close friend. Twain』s many comrades also included girls. Across the street lived one named Laura Hawkins, with whom he often flirted.
Twain』s carefree days did not last long, His father used their house as collateral for a friend』s loan, and the creditor took possession when the loan failed. A physician who lived diagonally across the street from the family offered to let them live in his home, which was called the Pilaster House because of its decorative columns. The Clemens family moved into that house sometime in late 1846. On March 24, 1847, John Clemens died. His wife. Jane Lampton Clemens, and their oldest son, Orion, managed to regain possession of the little house on Hill Street, and the family moved back into it that summer. These events dampened but did not extinguish Twain』s cheerful disposition.
For the next six years, Twain, his brother Henry, and his sister Pamela live with their mother in the family home. Twain began taking odd jobs after school to bring in extra cash. Within a year of his father』s death, he quit school and became an apprentice printer, and when his brother Orion bought the Hannibal Journal in 1851, Twain went to work for him as a printer and editorial assistant. The stories he wrote for Orion』s paper, his first publications, taught him that he much preferred writing to typesetting. Thus, when he decided to leave Hannibal in May 1853, he already had an inkling of his future career.
Ⅳ 介紹馬克吐溫的英語文章
粗褲我相信大家都非常了解和熟悉馬克吐溫,但是大家有沒有看過他的英文版的簡介呢,下面是我帶來的,歡迎閱讀!
介紹馬克吐溫的英語文畢源章
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
手凳態Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which became very popular and brought nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well-received. Twain had found his calling.
He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, instrialists, and European royalty.
However, he lacked financial acumen. Though he made a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he squandered it on various ventures, in particular the Paige Compositor, and was forced to declare bankruptcy. With the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers, however, he eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain worked hard to ensure that all of his creditors were paid in full, even though his bankruptcy had relieved him of the legal responsibility.
Born ring a visit by Halley's Comet, he died on its return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."
Early life
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 12, 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).
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.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."
When Twain was four, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, 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.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. 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.
Samuel Clemens, age 15In March 1847, when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia. 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 ecated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider information than at a conventional school. At 22, Twain returned to Missouri.
On a voyage to New Orleans down the Mississippi, 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,roughly equivalent to $73,089 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 he was working on, the Pennsylvania, exploded. Twain had foreseen this death in a dream a month earlier,which inspired his interest in parapsychology; he was an early member of the Society for Psychical Research.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 ring 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.
Ⅳ 題為[馬克吐溫的一生]的英語作文
Mark Twin (Mark Twain), America famous writer and speaker, real name is Samuel Rangen Kremen (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). "Mark Twin" is his pen name, the original is the Mississippi River seaman used said water tested by the channel depth of terms.
When Mark Twin was 12 years old, his father died, he had to drop out of school, to the factory as a laborer. He then changed a lot of occupation, had done the Mississippi River pilot, miners and journalists work. By writing some interesting pieces, began his writing career. [1]
Mark Twin wrote a lot of works, the theme involves all aspects of novels, plays, essays, poetry.From the content that ugliness, his works to criticize the unreasonable phenomenon or human nature, express the as a compositor and seaman writer has a strong sense of justice and theordinary people's care; from the style of speaking, the experts and general readers think, humor and satire is writing his characteristics.
Mark Twin is the founder of American critical realism literature, his major works have been mostlyhave Chinese versions. He experienced American from the development process of earlycapitalism to imperialism, his thought and creation as well as from a kid to irony to be pessimistic and worldweary development stage, the irony is, at the later stage of the language more exposed to intense. Known as the "American literature history of Lincoln". He died on April 21, 1910, aged seventy-five, was buried in New York Elmar.
看看這樣行不行,自己根據網上的資料改變的,很累的,採納吧
Ⅵ 2013年高考英語江蘇卷 - 閱讀理解D
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
馬克·吐溫被稱為美國小說的創始人,他推廣了聰明文學以抨擊種族歧視,理應受到額外褒獎。
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe』s Uncle Tom』s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
之所以說是聰明是因為反奴隸制小說在內戰前就已經是文學的重要組成部分了。H.B.斯托的《湯姆叔叔的小屋》就是其中最著名的例子。這些早期的小說直指奴隸制,但也有少數列外,馬克·吐溫將他對奴隸制和偏見的攻擊植入故事裡,而故事表面看起來則是是其他的事情。他通過小說吸引讀者讓他們參與這場討論。
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain』s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn , Twain』s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck the mass rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel 「trash and suitable only for the slums」. More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurrences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)
戰後,馬克·吐溫似乎不得不一次又一次地應對種族主義的挑戰,至少現在馬克·吐溫的《哈克貝利·費恩歷險記》仍是最受爭議的小說。馬克·吐溫被廣泛閱讀的的小說中只有幾本書像《哈克貝利·費恩歷險記》一樣經常被下架。從前,人們討厭這本書,因為人們認為它很粗魯。馬克·吐溫寫道,那些禁止這本書的人認為這部小說是"垃圾,只適合貧民窟"。最近這本書因為書中的人物,逃跑的黑奴吉姆以及頻繁出現的「黑鬼」一詞而備受抨擊(備受抨擊的的"黑鬼吉姆"這個詞從未出現過)。
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim』s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction — a recognition that the slave had two personalities, 「the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the indivial: Jim, the father and the man.」
但這樣的攻擊無論是過去還是現在都很愚蠢,沒有抓住重點。這部小說強烈地反對奴隸制。吉姆從他被強行帶走的蓄奴州開始搜尋家人的行為是一種英雄主義的行為。J. Chadwick指出,吉姆這個角色是美國小說中第一個承認奴隸有雙重人格的,即"一個是生存於白人奴隸文化之中的聲音,另一個是作為個體的聲音,吉姆本人,是父親,也是男人"。
There is much more. Twain』s mystery novel Pudd』nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain』s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master』s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold south, switched him for the master』s baby by his wife. The slave』s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the ecation of the slave-holding class. The master』s wife』s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
這樣的例子還有很多。馬克·吐溫的懸疑小說《傻瓜威爾遜》對種族信仰,甚至是許多自由派的種族信仰發起了挑戰。當時人們普遍認為黑人不如白人聰明,尤其是智力方面,馬克·吐溫的小說寫了孩子出生時將兩個孩子互換的故事。一個奴隸生下了她主人的孩子,生怕孩子被賣到南方去,於是就用自己的孩子換了他主人妻子的孩子。奴隸的淺膚色小孩生長在白人家庭,並在蓄奴階級的態度和教育思想中長大,而主人妻子的小孩被送到黑人家庭,並在奴隸的態度和教育思想中長大。
The point was difficult to miss: nurture, not nature, was the key to social status.The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech,for example—were,to Twain,indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
有一點很明確:決定社會地位的關鍵是養育而不是本性。人們歧視的是黑人本身的一些特點,比如說話的方式。馬克·吐溫認為,這些特點正是奴隸制強加給奴隸的。
Twain』s racial was not perfect . One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography about how much he loved what were called 「nigger shows」 in his youth--mostly with white men performing in black-face---and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
馬克·吐溫的種族論調並不完美。依然令人不安,例如,他在自傳中用了很長的篇幅來講述他在青年時期非常喜歡"黑鬼秀",而那些表演大多是由白人扮成黑人,他母親嘲笑表演者時他很開心。但我們沒有理由認為馬克·吐溫把這個表演看成是現實的寫照。他經常攻擊奴隸制和種族歧視表明他擁有敏銳的意識。
Was Twain a racist? Asking the questioning the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the 「wisdom」 of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
馬克·吐溫是一個種族主義者嗎?在21世紀,問這個問題就如同問林肯是不是一個種族主義者一樣睿智。如果我們用當前經過深思熟慮的道德標准作為辨別的「智慧」來解讀過去的文字和態度,那麼我們只會發現錯誤。林肯認為黑人不如白人,只有戰斗並且贏得戰爭,才能解放他們。馬克·吐溫生長在一個蓄奴州,當過兵,創作了吉姆這個形象,跟過去任何一個小說家相比,他也許更能提醒人們種族之間的不公並且喚醒他們的集體良知。
Ⅶ 高一英語必修三,百萬英鎊全文翻譯!
分析如下:
百萬英鎊課文翻譯
講述人:那是1903年的夏天。一對年老而富有的兄弟,羅德里克和奧利弗,打了一個賭。奧利弗相信一個有一百萬英鎊的人能夠在倫敦生活一個月。他的哥哥羅德里克懷疑這一點。就在這個時候,他們看了見一個一貧如洗的年輕人在他們房子外面的人行道上徘徊。他叫亨利 亞當斯。他在倫敦迷失了,也不知道該做些什麼。
羅德里克:小夥子 你能進來一下嗎? 亨利:誰?我嗎.,先生?
羅德克里:是的,就是你。 奧利弗:從你的左邊的前門進來。
亨利:(一個僕人打開門)謝謝。
僕人:早上好,先生。請進?請允許我來帶路吧。
奧利弗:(亨利進來了)謝謝你,詹姆斯。這沒你什麼事了。
羅德克里:你好,先生……呃……?
亨利:亞當斯,亨利。亞當斯
羅德里克:過來坐下,亞當斯先生。……
亨利:謝謝
羅德里克:你是美國人?
亨利:對,我來自舊金山。
羅德里克:你對倫敦了解的多嗎?
亨利:一點也不了解,我是第一次來這。
羅德里克:亞當斯先生,不知你是否介意我們問你一些問題?
亨利:別客氣,請問吧。
羅德里克:我們想問你在英國干什麼,你有什麼計劃嗎?
亨利:哦,我不能說我有什麼計劃,我只希望能找份工作。實際上,我是偶然來到英國的。
奧利弗:這怎麼可能呢?
亨利:哦,你知道,我在家裡有一條自己的船。大概一個月前,我正准備駛出海灣……
奧利弗:哦,接著說。
亨利:好的,夜幕降至,我發現颳起了強烈的風,這都是我的錯。第二天早上,我還是迷失了方向,幸好有艘船發現了我。
奧利弗:那麼就是那艘船帶你來到英格蘭了。
亨利:是的,事實上他們讓我在船上幫工才免了我的船費,這就是我為什麼會衣冠不整的原因了。我去美國大使館求助,但是……
羅德里克:哦,你不必擔心了,這也是你的優勢。
亨利:先生,我不是很贊同你的觀點。
羅德里克:亞當斯先生,對我們說說你在美國從事的工作。
亨利:我在船廠上班,你們能不能給我提供一份工作啊?
羅德里克: 別著急,亞當斯先生,如果你不介意,我想知道你還有多少錢?
亨利:說老實話,我沒錢。 奧利弗:這太幸運了!這太幸運了!
亨利:這也許對你們來說很幸運,但是對我來說一點也不好。如果這一切不過是你們開的玩笑,我並不覺得很有趣。如果你們不介意的話我先走了。
羅德里克:請不要走,亞當斯先生。你千萬不要覺得我們不在乎你。奧利弗,把信給他。
奧利弗:對,信,這是信。 亨利:給我的?
羅德里克:是給你的。不,現在不要拆,到下午兩點再拆。 亨利: 這太滑稽了。
羅德里克:不滑稽,裡面裝著錢。
亨利:不,我不需要你們的施捨,我只需要一份工作。 羅德里克:我們知道很踏實,這也是我們把信交給你的原因。詹姆斯,送亞當斯先生出去吧。
奧利弗:祝你好運。亞當斯先生。
亨利:你們為什麼不告訴我這到底是怎麼回事? 羅德里克:你很快就會知道的。還有一個半小時。 僕人:這邊走先生。
羅德里克:亞當斯先生,到兩點拆開,能保證嗎?
亨利:我保證,再見。
拓展資料:
百萬英鎊作者簡介
馬克·吐溫(1835—1910),美國作家,真實姓名是塞繆爾·蘭霍恩·克萊門斯(或薩繆爾·蘭亨·克萊門)。「馬克·吐溫」是他的筆名,原是密西西比河水手使用的表示在航道上所測水的深度的術語。
馬克·吐溫一生寫了大量作品,題材涉及小說、劇本、散文、詩歌等各方面。從內容上說,他的作品批判了不合理現象或人性的丑惡之處,表達了這位當過排字工人和水手的作家強烈的正義感和對普通人民的關心;從風格上說,專家們和一般讀者都認為,幽默和諷刺是他的寫作特點。
Ⅷ 上海牛津英語9Bunit5課文翻譯A story by MARk Twain
馬克吐溫是美國著名作家。他寫了許多故事,其中許多是有趣的故事。這些故事仍被許多世界各地的人閱讀。除了寫作,他還非常喜歡打獵和捕魚,所以他有一年去緬因州度假,並在那裡的叢林里度過了三個非常愉快的星期。
當他回家,他開著車,帶著他的行李到火車站。在那裡,他請搬運工人把行李放進火車火車。然後,他進入吸煙車廂和坐在一個舒適的位子上。當他進去的時候這個車廂是空的,但幾分鍾後,另一名男子進來坐在到了他對面的座位。馬克吐溫看著那個男子,並認為這名男子看上去很不愉快。然而,如果在這種情況下,不說點什麼將不太禮貌,於是,他對那個男子說「早上好」,他們開始交談。
首先,他們談到了天氣,然後他們談論緬因州。陌生人說: 「我們緬因州有一些漂亮的森林。如果不在那裡呆一段時間,那將是來緬因州的一個遺憾。我想你已經到我們的叢林里去過了,是嗎? 」 「是的,我去過了」 ,馬克吐溫回答說。 「我剛剛花了三個星期在那裡,我也度過了一段美好的時光。讓我告訴你一些其他的事兒,雖然緬因州在這個季節不允許捕魚,但是我還是得到了兩百磅的非常好的魚在我的行李裡面,放在這列火車上。我喜歡吃魚,所以我把它們放進冰里帶回家起。我想請問你是誰,先生? 「
陌生人看著馬克吐溫幾秒鍾,然後回答說: 「我是警察。我的工作是抓捕那些在錯誤的時間狩獵和捕魚的人。你是誰? 」
當他聽到這兒的時候,馬克吐溫感到驚訝和害怕。他很快地想了一下,然後回答, 「嗯,我來告訴你,先生。我是美國最會說大話的人。 」
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