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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Lesson,9,Mark Twain-Mirror of America,Objectives,To lean and master the vocabulary and expressions,To learn to paraphrase the difficult sentences,To understand the structure of the text,To appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage.,Structural Analysis,Part 1:(the first para.)Introduction,Part 2:(Tramp printer.renew our edges.)His early life,his success and comments on his works.,Section 1.(Tramp printer.the settled United States.)the setting/background knowledge,Section 2.(Young Mark.that invented retreating.)early years of life on the Mississippi and as a Confederate guerrilla,Section 3.(He went west.best-seller.)On his way to success,Section 4.(At the age.renew our edges.)Comments on his best works.,Part 3:(Personal tragedy.forget them forever.),Personal tragedy and conclusion.,Paraphrase:,1.A man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race.,2.Mark Twain digested the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.,3.The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied-a cosmos.,4.Broke and discouraged,he accepted a job as reporter with the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.,5.Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.,6.“and when she projects a new surprise,the grave world smiles as usual,and says”Well,that is California all over”“,7.Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.,Paraphrase:,1.A man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race.,a man who became constantly preoccupied by the moral weaknesses of mankind,2.Mark Twain digested the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.,Mark Twain first observed and absorbed the new American experience,and then introduce it to the world in his books or lectures.,3.The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied-a cosmos.,cast of characters:the cast of a play or a film consists of all the people who act in it,cosmos:the whole universe considered as an ordered system.,In his new profession he could meet people of all kinds.,在这个新的工作岗位上，他接触到的是各式各样的人物，看到的是一个多姿多彩的大千世界。,4.Broke and discouraged,he accepted a job as reporter with the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.,With no money and a frustrated feeling,he accepted a job as reporter with Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City,.,5.Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.,Mark Twain began working hard to became well known locally as a newspaper reporter and humorist.,6.“and when she projects a new surprise,the grave world smiles as usual,and says”Well,that is California all over”,and when California makes a plan for a new surprise,the solemn people in other states of the U.S.smile as usual,making a comment“thats typical of California”,7.Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.,The man who had made the world laugh was himself consumed by bitterness.,Now the gloves came off with biting satire.,Now Mark Twain threw away the pretended softness and gentleness he used to adopt and became outspoken,bitter and sarcastic.,His descriptions of the rough-country settlers there ring familiarly in modern world accustomed to trend setting on the West Coast(P9.),His descriptions of the rough-country pioneers there produce a familiar impression on people in modern world.People in the modern world(people in the settled United States,people on the East coast and along the Mississippi River.are now used to following the ways of doing things of the West Coast.,It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences,which she bears unto this day and when she projects a new surprise,the grave world smiles as usual,and says”Well,that is California all over.,California was made famous for organizing surprising businesses and developing them with great bravery and courage,without caring cost or result.And California keeps this fame until now.When she makes plans for a new surprise,the dull,solemn,dignified people in other parts of the States smile as usual and say:“Well,that”s typical of California,that”s just California style.”,Translation,1.I found another Twain as well one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race,who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.,2.From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race,of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.,3.All would resurface in his books,together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic.,4.Those acquaintanceships strengthened all his writing,but he never wrote better than when he wrote of the people along the great stream.,5.When railr
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