Mark twain poked fun at it in a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court . 马克吐温在《在亚瑟王朝廷里的一个康涅狄格州扬荃》一本书中对它取笑。
Twain wrote ceaselessly and even gave lectures to earn enough money to overcome his financial losses . 为了挣钱渡过经济难关,马克吐温不停地写作,甚至还去讲演。
Like so many of his contemporaries, twain was not whole-hearted in his praise of industrialism . 马克吐温如同他许多同时代的人一样,在赞扬工业文明的时候有点三心二意。
If we are to deal purely with twain the humorist, we have to fall back upon the details of his art . 假如我们把马克吐温当作一个单纯的幽默作家来看待,我们得转回头分析他的技巧。
His defects have been mercilessly indicated by mark twain in the essay entitled "fenimore cooper's literary offences" . 马克吐温在《库珀创作上的大病》一文中毫不客气地指出过他的缺点。
Who else could have been on terms of intimate friendship with two writers as immensely unlike as mark twain and henry james ? 除了他,还有谁能与气质各异的马克吐温和詹姆斯都成为莫逆之交呢?
Mark twain would have cut it out himself, being much more anxious than the brahmins to achieve good taste . 马克吐温自己也可能把它拿掉的,因为他在讲究“风雅”方面比起绅士派人来有过之无不及。