【正文】 notations about the weather and the tedious miningcamp meals lies an entry noting a story he had heard that day – an entry that would determine his course forever: Coleman with his jumping frog – bet stranger $50 – stranger had no frog, and C. got him one – in the meantime stranger filled C. 39。1864年春季，在他加盟《領(lǐng)土開發(fā)報(bào)》還不足兩年之時，他又乘驛站馬車前往舊金山，那兒在當(dāng)時和現(xiàn)在都是有前途的年輕作家成長的搖籃。在確信“我比發(fā)明撤退的人更精通撤退”之后，馬克?吐溫離開了那支隊(duì)伍。從所有這些形形色色的人身上，馬克?吐溫敏銳地認(rèn)識了人類，認(rèn)識了人們的言與行之間的差距。龍骨船、平底船和大木筏載運(yùn)著最重要的商品。Tramp printer, river pilot , Confederate guerrilla, prospector, starryeyed optimist, acidtongued cynic: The man who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life, digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer. He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days, signaling two fathoms (12 feet) of water a navigable depth. His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print, and translations are still read around the world.印刷工、領(lǐng)航員、邦聯(lián)游擊隊(duì)員、淘金者、耽于幻想的樂天派、語言尖刻的諷刺家：馬克?吐溫原名塞繆爾?朗赫恩?克萊門斯，他一生之中有超過三分之一的時間浪跡美國各地，體驗(yàn)著美國的新生活，爾后便以作家和演說家的身分將他所感受到的這一切介紹給全世界。s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer39。The geographic core, in Twain39。Young Mark Twain entered that world in 1857 as a cub pilot on a steamboat. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied a cosmos. He participated abundantly in this life, listening to pilothouse talk of feuds, piracies, lynchings ,medicine shows, and savage waterside slums. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic 　1857年，少年馬克?吐溫作為蒸汽船上的一名小領(lǐng)航員踏人了這片天地。這種生活體驗(yàn)對他的全部創(chuàng)作都起了促進(jìn)作用，然而他描寫得最為成功的還是那些密西西比河上的人物。s enduring gratitude.　　他乘驛站馬車來到西部，在內(nèi)華達(dá)州的華蘇地區(qū)受到當(dāng)時正流行的淘金熱的誘惑?！　●R克?吐溫磨煉并試驗(yàn)了他的新筆力，但他卻因?qū)懥艘恍┘怃J的評論文章而被迫暫時離開這座城市。s frog won. 　　1864年與1865年之交的那個冬天，馬克?吐溫是在安吉爾斯礦區(qū)度過的。在紐約市，“費(fèi)城號”蒸汽船準(zhǔn)備進(jìn)行一次到歐洲和圣地的觀光航行。At the age of 36 Twain settled in Hartford, Connecticut. His best books were published while he lived there.　　三十六歲時，馬克?吐溫開始定居于康涅狄格州哈特福德鎮(zhèn)，他的最優(yōu)秀的作品全是在那段時間里問世的。s own declaration of independence came from another character. Six chapters into Tom Sawyer, he drags in the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. Fleeing a respectable life with the puritanical Widow Douglas, Huck protests to his friend, Tom Sawyer: I39。s so awful reg39。 　On the river, and especially with Huck Finn, Twain found the ultimate expression of escape from the pace he lived by and often deplored, from life39。他早期作品中的道德說教厚厚地包著一層幽默的外衣，現(xiàn)在幽默換成了辛辣的諷刺。在晚年口述自傳的時候，他以極端絕望的心情談到人從塵世的苦難中的最終解脫：“……他們從世界上消失了，在這個世界上他們無足輕重，無所成就；甚至他們的存在本身就是個錯誤，是個失敗，是種愚蠢。s final release from earthly struggle Alliteration:...the slow, sleepy, sluggishbrained sloths stayed at home...with a dash and daring......a recklessness of cost or consequences...Metonymy:...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxeSynecdoche Keelboats,...carried the first major merc