高级英语(1)第三版 Lesson 6 Mark Twain Paraphrase&Translation 答案

1) 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

2) The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied-- a cosmos.

3) All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic

4) Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well.

5) He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada's Washoe region.

6) Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.

7) "It was a splendid population – for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home...

8) 'Well, that is California all over’'"

9) "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."

10) The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end.

参考答案

1) Mark Twain is known to most Americans as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel Huckleberry Finn, which are generally acknowledged to be his greatest works. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant 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 or season for all readers.

2) In his new profession he could meet people of all kinds. 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 characters.

3) 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.

4) Steamboat decks were filled with people of pioneering spirit (people who explored and prepared the way for others) and also lawless people or social outcasts such as hustlers, gamblers and thugs.

5) He took a horse-drawn public vehicle and went west to Nevada, following the flow of people in the Gold Rush.

6) Mark Twain began working hard to became well known locally as a newspaper reporter and humorist.

7) Those who came pioneering out west were energetic, courageous and reckless people, because those who stayed at home were slow, dull and lazy people.

8) That's typical of California.

9) 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. 10) At the end of his life, he lost the last bit of his positive view of man and the world.