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丢失的白象英文读书笔记
The Stolen White Elephant
Mark Twain wrote' The Stolen White Elephant in 1879 as part of his book A Tramp Abroad. However, he didn't include the story in the book and published it as part of a collection of short stories in 1882.
薪酬调查The story is a comedy. It makes fun of the New York Police Department and its Chief, Inspector Blunt, and their attempts to find a white elephant that has gone missing in New York City. The story is bad on a real event that happened in 1878 and which Twain read about in the newspapers. The body of a multi-millionaire,Alexander T. Stewart is stolen from the family crypt in Boston. The story is in all the newspapers and the police force immediately gets all their men on the job. The nsational newspaper reports plus the unsuccessful attempts of the police force to find the body gave Twain the material he needed to write his comic masterpiece.
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The term 'white elephant' is also ud to mean an unwanted gift. Some people think the term comes from Thail and where the white elephant was considered to be sacred. When the King gave someone a gift of a white elephant they had to keep it alive at all costs. Naturally very few people wanted a gift of a white elephant.
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马克·吐温这个名字是河船俚语。为了沿着河流安全航行，河水必须有两英寻深。马克·吐温的意思是“马克二”或两英寻。当河水足够深可以安全航行时，船夫们大声呼喊“马克--吐温”。《丢失的白象》
when you say nothing at all马克·吐温于1879年写了《丢失的白象》，作为他《国外流浪汉》一书的一部分。然而，他并没有将这个故事纳入书中，而是在1882年作为短篇小说集的一部分出版。china train>bounded
这个故事是喜剧。它取笑纽约警察局以及探长布朗特，以及他们试图寻找一只在纽约市失踪的白象。这个故事是根据1878年发生的一个真实事件改编的，叶温在报纸上读到过这件事。亿万富翁亚历山大·T·斯图尔特的尸休在波十顿的家中被偷走。所有的报纸都报道了这件事，警察立即让所有的人都去工作。耸人听闻的报纸报道，加上警方未能找到尸体，给了吐温创作喜剧杰作所需的素材。
bridesmaid都很好“白象”这个词也被用来指不想要的礼物。有些人认为这个词来自泰国，在那里白象被认为是神圣的。当国王送给某个人一头白象时，他们必须不惜一切代价让它活着。当然，很少有人会想要一头白象作为礼物。
