跳蛙-美国文学课件.pptVIP

the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County卡拉维拉斯县驰名的跳蛙 ;自1862年年底起，马克·吐温先后在几家报馆当记者。这期间，他开始发表幽默小品，当时这类取材民间风俗和趣事的小故事很受一般民众的欢迎。他的第一篇短篇小说《卡拉维拉斯县驰名的跳蛙》就这样应运而生。小说诙谐风趣，但也没有什么深意。马克·吐温意识到：“不能一味逗乐，要有更高的理想。”在此后的创作中，他加大了社会批判的力度，尽可能增强文学作品的教谕功能。马克·吐温的成名作《卡拉维拉斯县驰名的跳蛙》（简称《卡县名蛙》）1865年11月18日在《星期六新闻》发表时，曾让“整个纽约顿时大笑”。小说的基本题材来自美国西部边疆，原来这些赌徒轶事仅在边疆流传，但经马克·吐温的加工改造后，“跳蛙”故事迅速传遍美国，成为家喻户晓的经典笑料。从此，年轻的马克·吐温“一举成名，成为闻名全美的幽默大师”。虽然《卡县名蛙》篇幅不长，但它在文学史上却有着重要的意义，是美国边疆文学的代表性作品之一。; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain, his first great success as a writer, bringing him national attention. In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Twain describes him: If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he is bet you how long it would take him to get to—to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. “要是他看见一只屎壳郎朝哪个方向走，他就跟你赌它几天才能到——不论到哪儿都行；只要你接茬，哪怕是去墨西哥，他也会跟着那只屎壳郎，看看它到底去不去那儿，路上得花几天的时间。”;The narrator is sent by a friend on an errand to visit an old man, Simon Wheeler, to find an old acquaintance of his friend, Leonidas W. Smiley. The narrator finds Simon at the decayed mining camp of Angels The narrator asks the fat, bald-headed man about Leonidas. Simon responds that he doesnt know a Leonidas Smiley, but he knows of a Jim Smiley. From there Simon tells the story of Jim. ;story;He was the most unusual man. Parson Walkers wife was very sick once, for a long time, and it seemed as if they were not going to save her. But one morning he come in, and Smiley asked him how was his wife, and he said she was better, thank God. And Smiley, before he thought, says, Well, Ill risk my money she will not get well.; 有一个人叫斯迈利，十分古怪。特别喜欢打赌，并且他不管输赢，只要跟他赌他就称心了。他有一匹马，小伙子们都叫它“大蜗牛”，不过，它总比蜗牛快些。但斯迈利总是把赌注押在“大蜗牛”身上，而斯迈利总是赢。因为别人通常会让它二、三