And then he quotes Mark Twain's disparaging remark about golf.

然后他引了马克·吐温对高尔夫的轻蔑评论。

Mark Twain suggested that an ingredient was missing in the American ambition when he said: " What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges."

马克·吐温认为，美国人的理想中缺少了种成分。他说：“如果我们能偶尔地躺下来好好放松休息下，使我们的棱角始终保持锋利，那么我们将有可能成为么朝气蓬勃的民族，么富有思想的民族啊！

Mark Twain, which means watermark two, was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi, to warn shipmates that they were coming into shallow water.

“马克·吐温”的原意是“（吃水）刻度二”，为防止水手进入浅水区，密西西比河上的船员会使这词。

Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman were among the thousands who flocked to see the magical electric light at work.

查尔斯·狄更斯、马克·吐温、西格蒙德·弗洛伊德、赫尔曼·梅尔维尔和沃尔特·惠特曼等数千人蜂拥前来观看神奇的电。

Mark Twain produced that timeless classic, and many more.

马克·吐温创作了这部永恒的经典作品，以及许其他作品。

Mark Twain, in Roughing It, a book that many people don't know about—but I highly recommend to anybody of any age to read it. He and his brother crossed the United States in a stagecoach. How romantic can you get?

马克·吐温的《艰难程》是本很人都不知道的书，但我强烈建议任何年龄的人都去读这本书。他和他的兄弟乘坐公共马车穿越美国。你感受下这有浪漫？

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the wrong word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.

马克·吐温说，正确词和错误词的区别就是闪电和萤火虫的区别。

Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Jordan, Mark Twain, Thurgood Marshall?

马丁·路德·金，迈克尔·乔丹，马克·吐温，还是瑟古德·马歇尔？

The story would be taken from Mark Twain's famous book, Huckleberry Finn.

这故事将取自马克·吐温的著小说《哈克贝利·费恩险记》。

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism.

马克·吐温的小说《哈克贝利·芬》 即是美国反智主义的例证。

Mark Twain's famous dictum comes to mind: " I have lived through many disasters, " he said, " only a few of which actually happened" .

这里就让人想到了马克·吐温的言：“我经过许灾难，但只有少数灾难真正发生了”。

If it was a safe 12 feet deep, he'd shout " Mark Twain" .

如果河水有12英尺深，行船的人便会大喊“马克·吐温”。

Few books are better on motivation than Mark Twain's " Tom Sawyer" .

很少有书比马克·吐温的《汤姆·索亚险记》更会写激励。

Ralph Waldo Emerson's life was not as exciting as the lives of some other American writers -- Herman Melville, Mark Twain or Ernest Hemingway.

爱默生的生活不像其他些美国作家的生活那样精彩，比如赫尔曼·梅尔维尔，马克·吐温或欧内斯特·海明威。

Word experts say American writer Mark Twain created the term " Gilded Age."

词汇专家称，美国作家马克·吐温创造了“镀金时代”词。

I'd like to close with a quote from Mark Twain.

我想引马克? 吐温的段话来作为结束。

The writing of these stinging letters made Mark Twain feel better.

写完这些挖苦人的信以后，马克·吐温感到痛快了。

Mr. Mark Twain wrote the book and most of it is true.

这本书是马克·吐温写的，书里的大部分是真实的。

The book in question was The Adven tures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's 1876 classic of American literature-a work approved by the state of Massachusetts as part of the public-school curriculum.

有争议的那本书是马克·吐温1876年发表的经典美国文学作品《汤姆·索亚险记》，这部作品被马萨诸塞州列为公立学校课程的部分。

I'm not referencing Mark Twain, me from the past, I'm referencing Benjamin Franklin, who was probably himself quoting the unfortunately named playwright Christopher Bullock. Listen.

我不是引马克·吐温，过去的我，我在引本杰明·富兰克林，而他很有可能在引不幸被为克里斯托弗·布洛克的剧作家。听着。