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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

Mark Twain?

Nick Bullard?

Author:?

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

Chapter 1

Tom and his friends

'Oh, Aunt Polly! Quick — look behind you!'

So Aunt Polly looked, and Tom was out of the house in a second.

//這種騙人的小把戲跟誰學(xué)的來

He's going to work tomorrow!'

//即使是小學(xué), 就開始安排一些工作

//這其實是把小學(xué)生作為獨立的個體對待, 不看得太幼稚

There were hours of work in front of him and he was the unhappiest boy in the village.

//村里最不開心的孩子: 周日在粉刷柵欄

He saw his friend Joe Harper in the street, but he didn't look at him.

//"視而不見"的把戲從小就會

//早熟的Tom 看透了同伴的心思

'I am sorry, Tom.'

//hhhhh, Joe Harper 嘲諷一番

Tom put down his brush. 'You call this work?' he said.

'Perhaps it is and perhaps it isn't. But I like it,' said Tom. 'I can go to the river any day. I can't paint a fence very often.'

//hhhhh, 加上一副認(rèn)真臉, 乍一聽蠻有道理

Joe watched Tom for about five minutes. Tom painted very slowly and carefully.

//hh, 做作, 下賤, 無恥

'I'm sorry, Joe. You see, my aunt wants me to do it because I'm good at painting. My brother Sid wanted to paint, too, but she said no.'

//hh, 厚顏無恥

Tom gave Joe the brush. He did not smile, but for the first time that day he was a very happy boy. He sat down and ate Joe's apple.

//憋笑的能力很強大

//Tom 最終把最糟糕的一天變成了最幸福的男孩

More friends came to laugh at Tom, but soon they all wanted to paint, too. By the afternoon Tom had a lot of other exciting things.

//村里的玩具收割機(jī)

In the street near the school he met his friend Huckleberry Finn.

//傳奇人物 Huckleberry Finn, 后面專門有他的冒險經(jīng)歷

//看過H.F. 的冒險后, 回看Tom Sawyer 才有意思

he was always dirty, and he never had a new shirt. But he was happy.

//現(xiàn)實這么糟糕, 依然可以開心起來

//理想主義者

'At midnight. A dead cat can call ghosts out of their graves.'

//午夜傳說

//大人的本意可能是嚇退熊孩子: 不要對死貓好奇, 死了就是死了

//沒想到遇到了不怕鬼的 Huck 與 Tom

Oh, how beautiful she was! And in two seconds Tom was in love! He must sit next to her. But how?

//怎樣坐到班花旁邊

'I stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn!' he said.

//用盡全力斯嚎出在老師眼中的大事

The teacher was very, very angry.Boys were often late for school. That was bad, but talking with Huckleberry Finn was worse, much worse!

//Tom 一句話就可以讓老師非常生氣

//可以看出這位教師對不上學(xué)孩子的討厭

'Now, Tom Sawyer, you go and sit with the girls!'

//教師: 做得不錯呦, 讓我當(dāng)眾打你, 過去吧

//Tom: 嘿嘿嘿

Chapter 2

In the graveyard

He waited for Huck's meow, and at eleven o'clock it came.

//meow (喵嗚~) 是Huck 的暗號: 在Tom 家樓下學(xué)一聲貓叫

//聽有聲書知道的

//Kindle558 國產(chǎn)版, 被減配了:? 缺少有聲書商店; 沒有藍(lán)牙功能;

'Ghosts can see through trees,' said Huck unhappily. 'They can see through everything!'

//Huck 這時候很怕鬼

'Tom! They're not ghosts. That's Muff Potter.'

//Huck 這時候不怕鬼

The doctor wants a dead body, you see. He cuts it up because he wants to learn about —'

//是Huck 自己想要學(xué)習(xí)一些東西, 所以才會看見別人想學(xué)習(xí)的意愿

//禪:

應(yīng)無所住, 而生其心

//心中想什么, 才會看見什么; 心中不想, 則會視而不見

'This is bad, Muff,' said Joe. 'Why did you kill him?'

//馬福把喬當(dāng)朋友, 喬反而倒戈, 令人厭惡的行為

//遇到不喜歡的人, 大多數(shù)人的做法是屏蔽朋友圈之類, 這樣至少保持了真誠, 真誠有時候就是善良 or 智慧

//有時候會覺得：世上還是壞人多

Do you remember a day five years ago? I came to your house and asked for something to eat. And you gave me nothing. Nothing!

//下殺手的原因

'Don't hit my friend!' cried Muff Potter. He jumped on the doctor and the two men began to fight.

// Muff 是把 Joe 當(dāng)朋友

'This is bad, Muff,' said Joe. 'Why did you kill him?'

// Joe 沒把Muff 當(dāng)朋友

And there Muff sat for four weeks, and waited for his trial.

// trial n. 審判

'Muff Potter didn't kill the doctor — Injun Joe did. We saw him!'

'I know,' Huck said. 'But what can we do? We can't tell anyone.

//這時候不告訴任何人是最明智的

Chapter 3

On Jackson's Island

At night, when he was in bed, he saw Injun Joe's face in the dark, and he couldn't sleep. But he couldn't talk to anyone about it.

//不過，有時候死人也會有用途，就看人放對地方

'Let's get away from here!' said Tom, suddenly. 'Let's go and do something exciting somewhere.'

'OK,' said Joe. 'But what? And where?'

'I know,' Tom said. 'Let's run away. Let's go and live on Jackson's Island.?

//Tom 想去其他地方玩耍轉(zhuǎn)移注意力，為了暫時忘記煩惱

//找小伙伴出去玩的時候要先想好去哪里：

//A：讓我們出去玩吧

//B：好，去哪

//A：我也不知道

//B：那你還找我出去（生氣離開）

//可能 A 決定找 B 一起出去已經(jīng)花費了所有的力氣，可能 A 想要一起討論去哪里，總之，A 在這一點上沒有 Tom 有智慧，也就是：只有心沒有力

//A 花費的力氣：決定出去玩（不是學(xué)習(xí)、做家務(wù)），決定找 B （不是找 C）。力氣想不到第三層就用光了

Then they cooked some of the meat over the fire, and oh, that meat was good — the best dinner in the world!

// 英文筆記裝載準(zhǔn)備，發(fā)射

//if I write wrong word or grammar, I don't want to know please.

//The children always eat parents lunch. It is very easy to boring. Please buy something sometimes.

Then Huck and Joe woke up, and the three boys ran down to the river to swim. After that, they fished, and soon they had about six big fish for their breakfast.

//It is so fun. To swim, fished, breakfast etc.

The boys watched the boats. Suddenly, Tom cried, 'I know who's dead! It's us! They're looking for us!'

//One human is full of body, the family are not hungry.

'Can we smoke, too?' asked Tom. 'I want to learn.'

So Huck made pipes for Tom and Joe, and the three boys sat and smoked.

//Smoking is just for fun. Life is long, is not it?

But after ten minutes Tom and Joe got quieter and quieter and their faces went an interesting colour.

//Laugh Out Loud

The two boys came back an hour later. But they didn't smoke their pipes again.

//When smoking is not fun, quit.

And little Becky Thatcher did not stop crying for one second.

//Tom's girlfriend is so ture. Poor Becky Thatcher.

And into the church came the three dead boys — Tom first, Joe next, and then Huck.

//walk out with bright light

It was St Petersburg's happiest funeral.

//Could a funeral be happy, in St Peterburg it could be.

Questions, questions, questions. Answers, answers, answers. And the answers were all bad for Muff Potter.

// Muff is just saying truth.

'Thomas Sawyer, where were you on the seventeenth of June, at the hour of midnight?'

'In the graveyard.'

'Why?'

'I went there to see ghosts. With a — a — dead cat.'

// It is a smart answer, but is not a BOY's answer.

Crash! Injun Joe jumped through the window, and was out and away in a second.

// Well, 'one second' is better than 'a second', if I wrote this story.

Chapter 4

Treasure

There is a time in every boy's life when he wants to go and dig for treasure. And that time came for Tom.

// Yes, I used to dig a money bag in my family's old house.

They took the pick and shovel with them, went down the hill

//When a boy understands how to use a tool, he always wants do something.

// Hammer always wants to find a nail.

There were holes in the floor, and through them the boys could see into the rooms downstairs.

// The money is flying to the sky

'Yes,' said Injun Joe. (Happy faces upstairs.) 'No! (Very unhappy faces upstairs.) Let's put it under the cross — nobody goes there. We can take it there tonight.'

// There is no bank but there is the cross.

Chapter 5

In the cave

There were some older children on the boat too, but all the mothers and fathers stayed at home. Picnics are better without them!

And it was a very happy, noisy picnic.

//Parents are not welcome at parties.

The tunnels went up, down, and into the hill for miles. You could walk for days in McDougal's Cave.

// It is so huge Cave: walk for days

Huck Finn saw the boat…He did not go to birthday picnics, of course, because the mothers of St Petersburg did not like him.

// All the mothers did not like Huck, poor boy.

There were hundreds of bats in this room…

Time went by. Was it day, or night? They didn't know.

"Since then sun, moon, and stars can do what they will—I haven’t the faintest notion whether it is day or night. The world around me has vanished."

----The Sorrows of Young Werther. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hand moved, and Tom saw an arm and a face. It was Injun Joe! Tom was very afraid, but Injun Joe was afraid too, and he quickly ran away down the tunnel.

// What are you doing, Injun Joe.

We were five miles from the mouth of the cave!'

Tom was very tired after his three days in the cave…

// mile: a unit of linear measure equal to 1,760 yards (approximately 1.609 kilometres).

// far away from the mouth of the cave about 8 km?

There are big doors across the cave mouth now — and nobody can open them!'

Injun Joe was on the ground, dead, his face to the door and his knife in his hand.

// dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die

Chapter 6

Under the cross

It's in the cave — I know it is! Why was Injun Joe in the cave? Because he took the box of money there! Right?'

// It is not smart just wisdom

// Asking some question because of already know something

They went eight miles down the river

// Tom is driving a boat finding the money, so exciting.

When somebody finds treasure, everybody hears about it very quickly.

// just like bad news flies around the world

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