低字五笔怎么打高级英语第九课
I. Additional Background Material:
戒骄戒躁的意思Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), America’s most famous humorist and the author of popular and outstanding autobiographical works, travel books and novels. The first 36years of Clemens’ life as a boy in a little town in Missouri, as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, as a reporter on the far western frontier and as a traveler abroad supplied him with copious material which he ud later for his best and most successful writings.
1) Boyhood
Born in the small village of Florida, Missouri on Nov.30, 1835, young Clemens was the third son and sixth child of a storekeeper (and at times also a lawyer). As Father’s business failed, the family had moved to Hannibal when Samuel was 4, where he spent his boyhood, enchanted by the romance and awed by the violence of river life--- the steamboats, keelboats, and giant lumber rafts and also the human flotsam washed up by the river, professional gamblers and hustlers—people quick with fist, knife or gun. Nevertheless, Hannibal was an ideal place for a boy to grow up.
2) Early life
Sam had relatively little schooling. After his father’s death, he had to help the family by taking up odd jobs during summers or after school. He left school at 13, and became a full-time apprentice to a printer. At 18, he became a tramp printer, and went to New York, then to Philadelphia and Washington, and finally to Iowa to t type for his brother’s local paper. By then he had tried his hand at writing juvenile burlesque.（滑稽讽刺作品）
3) Experiences on the Mississippi River
At 22, he t out again, with the intention of eking his fortune in South America, along the Amazon. But on his way down the Mississippi toward New Orleans, he ran out of funds and was persuaded by a steamboat pilot to become his apprentice. About two years later, he was licend as a pilot on his own right. He worked on the river till 1861. He found his life during this period both instructive and interesting.
4) Journey West and the birth of “Mark Twain”e
Owing to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, river traffic halted. Twain joined the Militia on the Confederate side for two weeks; then “retired”. He then joined his brother in a trip to Nevada. The West was still an exciting new frontier and there were rumoors about fortunes to be made in Nevada
and California. He tried prospecting, mining, speculating, but failed. And then he did reporting for local papers. It was in Virginia City on February 3, 1863, that“Mark Twain” was born when Clemens, then 27, signed a humorous travel account with that pudonym. The new name was appropriate, for it was a riverman’s term for water that was just barely safe for navigation. In 1865, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caveras County” was published and became an immediate success.
5) Career as a journalist
He took the trip to Honolulu as a correspondent for the Sacramento Union in 1866; the following year he boarded the steamship Quaker City” for a voyage to Europe and the Holy Land; in 1869, the book version of his travel sketches was published under the title “The Innocents Abroad”
6) His most productive years
He married in 1870, and moved to Hartford, conn., where he
数据分列lived his most productive years. The move was a turning-point in his life. Up till now, he had been mainly accumulating material. N ow he began to write out of that accumulation. “Tom Sawyer” was written in 1876; “Huckleberry Finn” in 1884.
7) Financial difficulties and personal misfortunes
He started his own printing shop, invested largely on a new type-tting machine and became bankrupt. Heavily in debt, he made a lecturing tour abroad and succeeded in paying all his debts, but ruined his own health. In this period occurred the death of his son, daughters and wife.
8) Last years
He wrote “What is Man?”“ The Mysterious Stranger ”and dictated his autobiography. He died in 1910. Some of his major works are “Roughing It”, “The Gilded Age”, “The Prince and the Pauper”.
II. Explain Some of the Important Words and Explanations:
1. mirror: a person who gives a true reprentation or description of the country
2. father: author; creator
3. every bit: altogether, entirely
Their design is every bit as good as ours.他们的设计方案同我们的相比毫不逊色
The children have eaten up that pudding every bit. 孩子们吃掉了那块布丁，全部吃掉了。
4. cynical: sarcastic; sneering
5. obsd with: distresd by
The old lady is always obsd with the idea of death/ He is obsd with the fear of unemployment
6. frailties: the moral weakness
7. tramp printer: a person who gets around doing odd jobs of printing
8. procutor: one who explores and arches for valuable ores such as gold, silver, oil空成语接龙
9. starry-eyed: romantic, dreaming
10. acid-tongued: sharp, sarcastic in speech
11. range across: wander or travel across
12. attested: proved
13. keelboat: a large shallow freight boat with a keel formerly ud on the Mississippi, Missouri, etc.
14. molass: thick dark syrup drained from raw sugar, usu. ud as a singular noun
廊坊华航航空学校15. drain: receive the waters of this area and carry them to the ocean.
16. a cub pilot: a young inexperienced pilot
17. the cast of characters: the t of actors in a play or movie
18. cosmos: univer; ud figu. Here, meaning a place where one can find all types of characters
19. hustler: a person who gets things through deceit. Now in the U.S the word means a street walker.
20. thug: violent criminal
21. dry up: cau to become completely dry
22. motley: having many different or clashing elements; varied stagecoach: hor-drawn public vehicle
23. succumb to: die of
24. dig his way to regional fame: work hard to gain regional fame
25. a mining strike: success in finding esp. a mineral in the
earth; an oil strike
26. hotbed:: a place that fosters rapid growth or extensive activity, oft. ud of sth. evil 温床
27. muscle: writing skill
28. scathing columns: vere and harsh articles
29. the rough country: the country not easily travelled over or through becau rocky， overgrown, wild, etc.
30. ring: produce, as by sounding, a specified impression on the hearer, e.g. to ring true
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The encouraging words of her friends rang in her ears她耳边回响着朋友们鼓舞的话。
The church rang with music教堂响彻音乐声
31. trend tting: taking the lead in starting new trends or new ways of doing things.
Set a new trend in women’s apparel开创女性服饰的新潮流
32. dash and daring: energy and courage
33. wild: not easily restrained or controlled; unruly and rough
大道之行也天下为公
34. a pleasure crui: a voyage for pleasure of sighteing,
a tourist expedition by ship
35. the holy Land: Palestine, region on the east coast of the Mediterranean, the country of the Jews in Biblical Times. The region where Jesus Christ preached and lived.
36. of sorts: of a sort, here in a n, in a way. It suggests that what is referred to here does not really derve the name.
He could speak English of sorts.他勉强能说几句英语
