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

然后他引了·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."

·温认为，美国人的理想中缺少了一种成分。他说：“如果我们能偶尔地躺下来好好放松休息一下，使我们的棱角始终保持锋利，那么我们将有可能成为一个多么朝气蓬勃的民族，一个多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.

“·温”的原意是“（吃）刻度二”，为防手进入浅区，密西西比河上的船员会使这个词。

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、·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.

·温创作了这部永恒的经典作品，以及许多其他作品。

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?

·温的《艰难历程》是一本很多人都不知道的书，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车穿越美国。你感受一下这有多浪漫？

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

·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?

丁·路德·金，迈尔·乔丹，·温，还是瑟古德·歇尔？

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

这个故事将取自·温的著名小说《哈贝利·费恩历险记》。

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

·温的小说《哈贝利·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·温的名言：“我经历过许多灾难，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" .

如果河有12英尺深，行船的人便会大喊“·温”。

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

很少有书比·温的《汤姆·索亚历险记》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一些美国作家的生活那样精彩，比如赫尔曼·梅尔维尔，·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·温创造了“镀金时代”一词。

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

我想引? 温的一段话来作为结束。

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

写完这些挖苦人的信以后，·温感到痛快多了。

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

这本书是·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·温1876年发表的经典美国文学作品《汤姆·索亚历险记》，这部作品被萨诸塞州列为公立学校课程的一部分。

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·温，过去的我，我在引本杰明·富兰林，而他很有可能在引不幸被名为里斯托弗·布洛的剧作家。听着。