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1、,Lets learn about Mark Twain,Mark Twain (1835 1910),Brief introductionPen nameEarly life Travels,Marriage and childrenLater lifeMark Twains sayingInfluence Humor,The brief introduction of Mark Twain,Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain,
2、 was an American writer, journalist, and humorist who won a wonderful audience for his stories of the youthful adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn He was named of “the mirror of America”,He was very popular, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned praise from critics and peers. upon hi
3、s death, he was lauded as the greatest American humorist of his age. William Faulkner called him the father of American literature,The brief introduction of Mark Twain,Pen name,马克吐温”是其最常使用的笔名，一般认为这个笔名是源自其早年水手术语，马克吐温的意思是：水深12英尺，萨缪尔（即“马克吐温”）曾当过领航员，与其伙伴测量水深时，他的伙伴叫道“Mark Twain !”，意思是“两个标记”，亦即水深两浔（1浔约1.8
4、米），这是轮船安全航行的必要条件. 还有一个原因是，他的船长塞勒斯，曾是位德高望重的领航员，不时为报纸写些介绍密西西比河掌故的小品，笔名“马克吐温”。 1859年，塞勒斯船长发表了一篇预测新奥尔良市将被水淹没的文章。调皮的萨缪尔决定拿他开个玩笑，就模仿他的笔调写了一篇非常尖刻的讽刺小品。谁知这篇游戏文章竟深深刺痛了老船长的心，老船长从此弃笔不写，“马克吐温”这个笔名也从此在报纸上销声匿迹了。 四年后，当上记者的萨缪尔得悉塞勒斯船长谢世的噩耗，为自己当年的恶作剧追悔不已，决心弥补这一过失，于是他继承了“马克吐温”这个笔名，并以此开始了他的写作生涯。,Samuel Langhorne Clemen
5、s was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835, to a Tennessee country merchant,Early Life,He had seven brothers and sisters . He was the sixth of his family. His father was a local lawyer.,When Twain was four, his mother died, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri,a port town on the Mississi
6、ppi River,At that time, Missouri was a slave state, and young Twain became familiar with the institution of slavery, a theme he would later explore in his writing.,when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia.,The next year, he became a printers apprentice. In 1851, he began working as a typesett
7、er and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal,When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York City.,He joined the union and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider sources of information than he would have at a conventi
8、onal (一般的） school.,At 22, Twain returned to Missouri.,He worked as a river pilot,until the American Civil War broke out in 1861 and traffic along the Mississippi was curtailed(缩减).,Travels,Twain and his brother traveled for more than two weeks on a stagecoach across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mo
9、untains, visiting the Mormon community in Salt Lake City along the way.,Twains journey ended in the silver-mining town of Virginia City, where he became a miner.,Twain failed as a miner and found work at a Virginia City newspaper, Here he first used his famous pen name.,During his tour of Europe and
10、 the Middle East, he wrote a popular collection of travel letters, which were later compiled as The Innocents Abroad in 1869.,Marriage and children,Charles Langdon is Mark Twains friend，one day he showed a picture of his sister, Olivia, to Twain; Twain claimed to have fallen in love at first sight.
11、Then ,he visited her and lived in her home for two weeks. During these two weeks, they talked with each other a lot, and she was attracted by his sense of humor. However Olivia refused when Mark Twain proposed to her because of his low social position, as well as smoking and drinking. Nothing could
12、stop his steps on pursuing Olivia ,so he continued to write to her. Not until receiving 184 letters from him, did she finally agree to marry him,The couples marriage lasted 34 years, until Olivias death in 1904,They got married in February 1870 .,They had four children, while the only son was died a
13、t 19 months.,Twain made a substantial amount of money through his writing，but he lost a great deal through investments and publishing house，so he plunged into debt. Twain s writing and lectures, combined with the help of the friend ,enabled him to recover financially. He passed through a period of d
14、eep depression, which began in 1896 when his daughter Susy died. Olivias death in 1904 and Jeans on December 24, 1909, deepened his gloom. On May 20, 1909, his close friend Henry Rogers died suddenly.,Later Life,照片下的留言：好好的，你将会孤独。马克吐温,Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Redding, one da
15、y after the comets closest approach to Earth.,MARK TWAINS SAYING,1.Dont give up your imagination. When the imagination had no after, you can also exist, but although you living dead still. 不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。,2.Those persons who have a good book but dont read are unlike and cant read t
16、he person of these books to own any advantage. 那些有好书却不读的人不比无法读到这些书的人拥有任何优势。,3.As long as had ignorance and self-confidence, you can succeed by all means. 只要具备了无知和自信，你就必然能成功。,Comity is such a kind of intense emotion of sanctity is thus sweet, firm and honest. 友谊是如此圣洁的一种激情，是如此甜蜜、牢固和忠诚。 Such of the cha
17、racteristic can make the comity support life long-as long as dont think the other party borrows money. 这样的特质可使友谊维系终身只要不想对方借钱。,Mark Twain is 19 century American realism literature , which is one of the main founder in realism novel theory and novel language style, for the development of American literature made a prominent contribution,
