Because the great writer lived a colorful life, doing a great variety of jobs and traveling extensively. He met all kinds of people whom he later depicted in his work. Paraphrase
? 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.
Mark Twain is known to most Americans as the author of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and the adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant of journey through his boyhood which seems eternal and Tom Sawyer is famous for his free roam of the country and his adventure in one summer which seems never to end. The youth and summer are eternal because this is the only age and time we knew them, they are frozen in that age for all readers. ? The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied- a
cosmos.
His work on the boat made it possible for him to meet a large variety of people. It is a world of all types of character. ? All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked
up with a memory that seemed phonographic.
all would reappear in his books, written in the colorful language that he seemed to be able to remember and record as accurately as a phonograph. ? Steamboat decks teemed not only with main current of pioneering humanity, but
its floatsam of hustlers, gamblers and thugs as well.
Steamboat decks were filled with people who explored and prepared the way for others and also lawless people or social outcasts such as hustlers, gamblers and thugs. ? He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever
in Nevada’s Washoe region.
He took a hores-drawn public vehicle and went west to Nevada, following the flow of people in the gold rush. ? ..Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and
humorist.
Mark Twain began to work hard as a newspaper reporter and humorist to become well known locally. ? “it was a splendid population- for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish brained sloths stayed at
home…”
Those who came pioneering out west were energetic , courageous and recl;ess people, because those who stayed at home were the sole, dull and lazy people.
? “what a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay
ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges.”
If we relaxed, rested or stayed away from all this crazy struggle for success occasionally and kept the daring and enterprising spirit, we would be able to remain strong and healthy and continue to produce great thinkers
? The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end.
At the end of his life, he lost the last bit of his positive view of man and the world. 翻译
? 这个人出生时名字是缪塞尔。兰霍恩。克莱门斯，后来才改为马克.吐温。他一
生之中有超过三分之一的时间是游历全国各地，感受着美国的新生活，此后便以作家和演说家的身份将他所感受的一切与全世界分享。
? 所有这一切，连同他那如留声机般准确而又可靠的记忆所吸收的丰富多彩的语
言信息，后来都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创精神的主流人群，也挤满了失业流浪者、
娼妓、赌徒和恶棍等这样的社会残渣。
? 从他们所有人的身上，马克.吐温得以深刻地洞察人性，看到了人们的言与行之
间的差距
? 对一个习惯于由西海岸地区引领流行趋势的现代世界来说，他对那些落脚于尚
未开发的荒凉之地的人们的描写听上去并不陌生。
? 他不经意地揭穿了那些受人尊敬的艺术家和艺术珍品，甚至对圣地也用亵渎性
的言辞予以抨击。
? 那个寡妇要按点吃饭，按点睡觉，按点起床-什么事情都那么井井有条，规规矩
矩，简直让人受不了。
? 他和一个逃跑的奴隶一起乘坐木筏沿着密西西比河顺流而下的漂流旅程展现了
一副美国社会的动态画面全景。
高级英语第三版课后答案整理
