Lesson15TheDamnedHumanRaceMarkTwain英语课件.ppt

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country《卡拉维拉斯县有名的跳娃》 The Innocents Abroad《傻瓜出国记》 A series of newspaper articles after his European trip later was published as this book. It explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era. The Gilded Age《镀金时代》 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer《汤姆·索亚历险记》 The Prince and the Pauper《王子和贫儿》 The Adventures of Huckberry Finn《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》 In this book, Finn was a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience”.It is one of the best works produced by Mark Twain, and it has always been regarded as one of the great books of western literature and western civilization. Hemingway described it as the book from which“ all modern American literature comes”. Brood over Brood: to keep thinking about something that you are worried or upset about Dont sit at home brooding all day. brood over/about/on Theres no point brooding over it - shes gone. by consent agreement about something The chairman was elected by common consent (=with most people agreeing) . divorce by mutual consent (=by agreement between both the people involved) be alive to a fact/possibility/danger etc to know that a particular fact etc exists and that it is important The company is alive to the threat posed by foreign imports. * * Lesson 15 The Damned Human Race Mark Twain Pre-class work: What do you know about Mark Twain? Can you name some books he wrote? About the author: Mark Twain (1835---1910) was born Samuel Langhorne Clements in Florida, Missouri, but lived as a child in Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. He took the pen name Mark Twain from the call of the pilots on the river steamers, which indicated that the water was twelve feet deep, a safe depth for a steamer.During his early years, he worked as a riverboat pilot, newspaper reporter, printer, and gold prospector. But