Lesson One
The Delicate Art of the Forest
林中高招
Mark Twain
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1 Cooper's gift in the way of invention was not a rich endowment; but such as it was he liked to work it, he was plead with the effects, and indeed he did some quite sweet things with it. In his little box of stage-properties he kept six or eight cunning devices, tricks, artifices for his savages and woodsmen to deceive and circumvent each other with, and he was never so happy as when he was working the innocent things and eing them go.
Cooper
COOPER
Grammar
As it was
= as it was not rich
= though it was not rich
Vocabulary
delicate Marked by nsitivity of discrimination: a critic's delicate perception.
invention the act of producing something new for the first time
endowment /en`daumEnt/ 让老公感动哭的话简短n. 1. The act of supplying with income, or a talent. 2.Funds or property donated to an institution, an individual, or a group as a source of income. 3. A natural gift, ability, or quality.
stage-property things, objects ud on stages except scenery, costumes
cunning Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness
文殊菩萨坐骑
device A plan or scheme, especially a malign one.
artifice skillful tricks
savage Not civilized; barbaric
circumvent outwit; to defeat or outwit by cleverness or stratagem; to surround or encircle with enmity
moccasin A soft leather slipper traditionally worn by Native Americans
twig Any small, leafless branch of a woody plant 薪金是什么意思
handy Readily accessible
vesl A craft, especially one larger than a rowboat, designed to navigate on water
steer a.离家的诗句 To direct the cour of. b. To maneuver (a person) into a place or cour of action.
ietsskipper The master of a ship
undertow The award pull of receding waves after they break on a shore.
sailorcraft
cannon A large, mounted weapon that fires heavy projectiles. Cannon include guns, howitzers, and mortars.
promptly immediately
daisy Slang One that is deemed excellent or notable.
trail A mark or trace left by something that has moved or been dragged by.
stump To clear stumps from; To bring to a halt; baffle
slush Soft mud; slop; mire.
vacate To cea to occupy or hold; give up
译文
库伯的发明天份并不怎么样，虽然如此，他却不厌其烦地运用它，而且还自鸣得意。他还真的用它几件十分惬意的事。在他的舞台道具盒里，只有七八个高招、秘诀和妙计，
能够让他的土人和林子中的人相互蒙来蒙去。他最大的快事就是摆弄这些天真的把戏，看（欣赏）它们起作用。
Key words
Cooper's gift (invention/ endowment) was not rich; but he liked to work it, and did some quite sweet things with it. His stage-properties (for his savages and woodsmen to deceive and circumvent each other with) are only six or eight cunning devices (tricks, artifices), and he was happy to work them and e them go.
Text
A favorite one was to make a moccasined person tread in the tracks of the moccasined enemy, and thus hide his own trail. Cooper wore out barrels and barrels of moccasins in working that trick.
译文
其中一个他喜欢的，就是让一个穿鹿皮鞋的人踩着另一个也穿鹿皮鞋的敌人的脚印，借以掩盖自己的行踪。干这个让库伯不知磨烂了多少双鹿皮鞋（靴筒）。
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Another stage-property that he pulled out of his box pretty frequently was his broken twig. He prized his broken twig above all the rest of his effects, and worked it the hardest. It is a restful chapter in any book of his when somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig.
译文人才济济
另一个他常常从他的盒子里拿出来的道具就是他的断树枝。他比什么都喜欢干树枝，所以不遗余力地使用它。他的书要是有哪一章没有人踩上干树枝，惊动周围二百码内的印地安人和白人，那就谢天谢地了。每回库伯笔下的人碰到危险，而一分安静一分金的时候，他保准要踩上一根干树枝。 内外墙涂料
