马克吐温(英文版)PPT

was American, but he was nearly
as much appreciated by
Englishmen and people of other
countries as by his own
countrymen. He has made an
enduring part of American
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apprentice. In
1851, he began
working as a
typesetter and
crous sketches
for the Hannibal
Journal
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When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York City.
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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.
They got married in February 1870 .
Twain passed through a period of deep depression, which began in 1896 when his daughter Susy died. Olivia's death in 1904 and Jean's on December 24, 1909, deepened his gloom. On May 照片下2的0留, 1言9：0好9好, h的i，s close friend 你将会H孤e独n。ry马R克o·吐ge温rs died suddenly.19
He formed a club in 1906 for girls he viewed as surrogate granddaughters, the Angel Fish and Aquarium Club.
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Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Redding, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.
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Twain's journey ended in the silverTwain failed as a mining town of miner and found Virginia City, work at a Virginia where he City newspaper, became a Here he first used miner. his famous pen name.
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During his tour of Europe and the
Middle East, he wrote a popular
collection of travel letters, which
were later compiled as The
Innocents Abroad in 1869.
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Travels
Twain and his brother traveled for more than two weeks on a stagecoach across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, visiting the Mormon community in Salt Lake City along the way.
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Early Life
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835, to a Tennessee country merchant 4
a port town on
the Mississippi
They had four children,
while the only son was died
at 19 months.
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The couple's marriage lasted 34 years, until Olivia's death in 1904.
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Later Life
with the
institution of
slavery, a theme
he would later
explore in his
writing.
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when Twain was 11, his
father died of pneumonia.
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The next year, he
became a printer's
At 22, Twain returned to Missouri.
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He worked as a river pilot
until the American Civil War broke out in 1861 and traffic along the Mississippi was curtailed(缩减).
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"Mark Twain gave pleasure – real
intellectual enjoyment – to
millions, and his works will
continue to give such pleasure to
millions yet to come... His humor
River
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When Twain was four, his mother died, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri 6
At that time,
Missouri was a
slave state, and
young Twain
became familiar
车票 他一次乘火车外出，火车开得很慢。 当查票员过来查票时，他递给他一张儿 童票。查票员调侃道：“我还真没看出 您还是个孩子呢！”
他回答：“现在我已经不是孩子了， 但我买票上车时还是个孩子哩。”
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Mark Twain’s
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Early Life
Travels
Marriage and children Later Life
literature."
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马克·吐温一股密西
西比河的洪流
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Tell the truth forever, such of words you need not recorded you to once say somewhat.
永远说实话，这样的话你就不用去记你曾
经说过些什么。
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Rather shut up don't talk, don't be eager to expressing oneself, either.
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He joined the union and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider sources of information than he would have at a conventional (一般 的） school.
宁愿闭口不说话，也不要急 于表现自己。
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Such of the characteristic can make the comity support life long-as long as don't think the other party borrows money.
这样的特质可使友谊维系终身——只 要不向对方借钱。