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The Name of Mark Twain Mark Twains real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens(萨缪尔·朗霍恩·克莱门斯). Mark Twain,is his pen name ,which meanswatermark two(水深两浔),was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warn shipmates that they were coming into shallow water. Mark Twain 是他的笔名，意思是水深两浔，告诉水手们，前面是浅滩。 Mark Twain was born at Florida, Missouri, a little town in Mississippi.At the death of his father in 1847, Twain ,11 years old ,had left school to be an apprentice to a printer. Then a brief but glorious career as a Mississippi River steamboat pilot ended when the river was blockaded at the beginning of the Civil War. After a short term of soldiering as a Confederate volunteer, Twain went to Nevada, hoping to strike it rich in the silver fields. 马克吐温生在密苏里州，密西西比河边的一个小镇上。他11岁就在印刷店里面当学徒，然后在密西西河上的一艘蒸汽船做导航员，知道内战爆发，密西西河被封锁。作为南方的志愿军，他短暂服役后，去了内华达州，在一个银矿上，希望能发点财。 When his mining schemes failed, he joined the staff of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, exchanged his real name, Samuel L. Clemens, for a pseudonym, “Mark Twain,” and began his career as a frontier humorist. Because of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,”《卡拉韦拉斯县驰名的跳蛙》(1865), he is known as the master of humorist all over the country. 银矿的计划失败后，他加入了弗吉尼亚的一个企业，并用上了笔名 Mark Twain， 成了一名幽默作家。 1965年，《卡拉韦拉斯县驰名的跳蛙》的发表，马克吐温一举成名。 In 1866, after six years as a miner, newspaper reporter, and lecturer, Twain went east responding to,he said,“a call to literature of a low order—i.e. humorous.” He took with him a reputation as “the wild humorist of the Pacific Slope” and a lively imagination that had led him to turn many of his newspaper “reports” into burlesques(滑稽戏)and comic sketches(喜剧小品).The success as a writer gave Twain enough financial security to marry Olivia Langdon(欧丽维亚·兰登) in 1870. 经过六年的时间，他曾做过旷工，记者和演讲者，马克吐温洗成自己为太平洋斜坡上未开化的的幽默家。他具有丰富的想象力，把新闻报道编成滑稽戏，和戏剧小品。写作上的成功也给他带来了可观的收入，1866年，与 Olivia Langdon 结婚。 While in New York, Twain was commissioned by a San Francisco paper to sail on a five-month voyage with a group