Марк твен сообщение на английском с переводом. Рассказ Luck на английском языке

Талант — talent [ˈtælənt]

герой – hero [ˈhɪərəʊ]

псевдоним — pseudonym [ˈsjuːdənɪm]

Настоящее имя нашего героя Сэмюэл Клеменс. The real name of our hero is Samuel Clemens.

Он рассказывал, что свой псевдоним придумал во время работы лоцманом на пароходе, используя термины из речной навигации. He said that he had invented his pseudonym while he was a pilot on a steamer, using terms from river navigation.

Сочинение

Марк Твен родился в штате Миссури в 1845 году. Позже время семья сменила место жительства, переехав в город Ганнибал. В своих книгах жителей этого города он описывал чаще всего.

Когда умер глава семейства, и вся ответственность перешла на юных мальчиков. Старший брат занялся издательским делом, чтобы хоть как-то обеспечивать семью. Марк Твен пытался внести свою лепту, поэтому помогал брату в качестве наборщика текста, а позже – автором статей.

Перевод:

Mark Twain was born in Missouri in 1845. After some time, the family changed their place of residence, moving to the city of Hannibal. He described the inhabitants of this city most often in his books.

Soon the head of the family died, and all the responsibility was transferred to the young boys. The elder brother went into publishing to at least somehow support the family. Mark Twain tried to make his own contribution, so he worked as a composer for his brother, and later — as an author of articles.

Диалог

— Разве имеет какое-то отношения к науке Марк Твен?

— Конечно! Он очень интересовался новыми идеями и теориями. Его хорошим другом был Никола Тесла, с котором они вместе занимались некоторыми опытами.

— Чем ещё увлекался Марк Твен?

— Он был прекрасным оратором и часто выступал на публике, находил юные дарования и помогал им пробиться, проявить свой талант.

Перевод:

— Does Mark Twain have anything to do with science?

— Of course! He was very interested in new ideas and theories. His good friend was Nikola Tesla, with whom they were engaged in some experiments.

— What else was Mark Twain interested in?

— He was an excellent speaker and often spoke in public, found young talents and helped them to get through, to show their talent.

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Тема по английскому языку: Марк Твен

Топик по английскому языку: Марк Твен (Mark Twain). Данный текст может быть использован в качестве презентации, проекта, рассказа, эссе, сочинения или сообщения на тему.

Ранние годы

Марк Твен родился в штате Миссури в Соединенных Штатах 30 ноября 1835. Он считается великим юмористом американской литературы 19 века. Отец Твена был неудачливым юристом. В 1838 семья Марка переехала в Ганнибал, Миссури, на реке Миссисипи, где молодой Твен испытал волнение, увидев красочные достопримечательности набережной. Как и многие другие авторы своего времени, он не получил положенного образования. Он даже не окончил среднюю школу. Он начал работать в возрасте 12 лет. Два года Твен работал в маленькой газете своего старшего брата и печатником, и репортером. 1853 Марк покинул Ганнибал, чтобы путешествовать. По пути в Новый Орлеан он убедил речного пилота научить его своему мастерству. К весне 1859 Марк Твен был лицензированным лодочным пилотом.

Литературный псевдоним

Настоящее имя Марка Твена было Самюэль Клеменс. Его литературный псевдоним в речной тематике означает «две морские сажени».

Первый популярный рассказ

С началом Гражданской войны в США Твен решил не вмешиваться в происходящие события и переехал в Карсон-Сити, штат Невада. После неудачной попытки добычи золота и серебра он был зачислен в штат газеты в Вирджиния-Сити, штат Невада. Твен написал свой первый популярный рассказ в 1865; он назывался «Прыжки лягушки Калаверас Каунти».

Приключения Тома Сойера

В 1876 Марк написал «Приключения Тома Сойера», которые принесли ему мировую славу. Книга была чрезвычайно популярна и переведена почти на каждый язык мира. Позже были изданы «Приключения Гекльберри Финна», «Том Сойер за границей», и «Том Сойер – детектив». Персонажи историй Твена всегда хорошо изображены; сами истории являются жизненными, а сюжеты искусно выстроены.

Другие работы

Между 1873 и 1889 Твен написал несколько романов, включая «Принц и нищий» и «Янки из Коннектикута при дворе короля Артура». Марк Твен был также автором сатир и критики, которые открывали правду об американском образе жизни.

Смерть

Он умер в 1910.

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Mark Twain

Early years

Mark Twain was born in the state of Missouri in the United States on 30 November, 1835. He is considered the greatest humorist of 19th Century American literature. Twain’s father was an unsuccessful lawyer. In 1839 Mark’s family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River where young Twain experienced the excitement and colorful sights of the waterfront. Like many authors of his day the future writer had little formal education. He didn’t even finish secondary school. He started working at the age of 12. For two years Twain worked for his elder brother’s small newspaper both as a printer and reporter. In 1853 Mark left Hannibal in order to travel. On a trip to New Orleans he persuaded a riverboat pilot to teach him his skill. By the spring of 1859 Mark Twain was a licensed riverboat pilot.

Pen name

Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Clemens. His pen name means “two fathoms” in riverboat-talk.

First popular story

At the outbreak of the American Civil War Twain chose not to get involved and moved to Carson City, Nevada. After an unsuccessful attempt at gold and silver mining he joined the staff of a newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada. Twain wrote his first popular story in 1865; it was called The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

In 1876 Mark wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which brought him world fame. The book was extremely popular and translated into nearly every language of the world. Later were published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer the Detective. The characters of Twain’s stories are always well-drawn; the stories themselves true-to-life and the plots are skillfully built up.

Other works

Between 1873 and 1889 Twain wrote several novels, including The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Mark Twain was also the author of satires and critical pages revealing a good deal of the truth about American way of life.

It was at a banquet in London in honour of one of the two or three conspicuously illustrious English military names of this generation. For reasons which will presently appear, I will withhold his real name and titles, and call him Lieutenant-General Lord Arthur Scoresby, V.C., K.C.B., etc., etc., etc. What a fascination there is in a renowned name! There say the man, in actual flesh, whom I had heard of so many thousands of times since that day, thirty years before, when his name shot suddenly to the zenith from a Crimean battle-field, to remain for ever celebrated. It was food and drink to me to look, and look, and look at that demigod; scanning, searching, noting: the quietness, the reserve, the noble gravity of his countenance; the simple honesty that expressed itself all over him; the sweet unconsciousness of his greatness--unconsciousness of the hundreds of admiring eyes fastened upon him, unconsciousness of the deep, loving, sincere worship welling out of the breasts of those people and flowing toward him.

The clergyman at my left was an old acquaintance of mine--clergyman now, but had spent the first half of his life in the camp and field, and as an instructor in the military school at Woolwich. Just at the moment I have been talking about, a veiled and singular light glimmered in his eyes, and he leaned down and muttered confidentially to me--indicating the hero of the banquet with a gesture,--"Privately--his glory is an accident-- just a product of incredible luck."

This verdict was a great surprise to me. If its subject had been Napoleon, or Socrates, or Solomon, my astonishment could not have been greater.

Some days later came the explanation of this strange remark, and this is what the Reverend told me.

About forty years ago I was an instructor in the military academy at Woolwich. I was present in one of the sections when young Scoresby underwent his preliminary examination. I was touched to the quick with pity; for the rest of the class answered up brightly and handsomely, while he--why, dear me, he didn"t know anything, so to speak. He was evidently good, and sweet, and lovable, and guileless; and so it was exceedingly painful to see him stand there, as serene as a graven image, and deliver himself of answers which were veritably miraculous for stupidity and ignorance. All the compassion in me was aroused in his behalf. I said to myself, when he comes to be examined again, he will be flung over, of course; so it will be simple a harmless act of charity to ease his fall as much as I can.

I took him aside, and found that he knew a little of Caesar"s history; and as he didn"t know anything else, I went to work and drilled him like a galley-slave on a certain line of stock questions concerning Caesar which I knew would be used. If you"ll believe me, he went through with flying colours on examination day! He went through on that purely superficial "cram", and got compliments, too, while others, who knew a thousand times more than he, got plucked. By some strangely lucky accident--an accident not likely to happen twice in a century--he was asked no question outside of the narrow limits of his drill.

It was stupefying. Well, although through his course I stood by him, with something of the sentiment which a mother feels for a crippled child; and he always saved himself--just by miracle, apparently.

Now of course the thing that would expose him and kill him at last was mathematics. I resolved to make his death as easy as I could; so I drilled him and crammed him, and crammed him and drilled him, just on the line of questions which the examiner would be most likely to use, and then launched him on his fate. Well, sir, try to conceive of the result: to my consternation, he took the first prize! And with it he got a perfect ovation in the way of compliments.

Sleep! There was no more sleep for me for a week. My conscience tortured me day and night. What I had done I had done purely through charity, and only to ease the poor youth"s fall--I never had dreamed of any such preposterous result as the thing that had happened. I felt as guilty and miserable as the creator of Frankenstein. Here was a wooden- head whom I had put in the way of glittering promotions and prodigious responsibilities, and but one thing could happen: he and his responsibilities would all go to ruin together at the first opportunity.

The Crimean war had just broken out. Of course there had to be a war, I said to myself: we couldn"t have peace and give this donkey a chance to die before he is found out. I waited for the earthquake. It came. And it made me reel when it did come. He was actually gazetted to a captaincy in a marching regiment! Better men grow old and gray in the service before they climb to a sublimity like that. And who could ever have foreseen that they would go and put such a load of responsibility on such green and inadequate shoulders? I could just barely have stood it if they had made him a cornet; but a captain--think of it! I thought my hair would turn white.

Consider what I did--I who so loved repose and inaction. I said to myself, I am responsible to the country for this, and I must go along with him and protect the country against him as far as I can. So I took my poor little capital that I had saved up through years of work and grinding economy, and went with a sigh and bought a cornetcy in his regiment, and away we went to the field.

And there--oh dear, it was awful. Blunders? why, he never did anything but blunder. But, you see, nobody was in the fellow"s secret--everybody had him focused wrong, and necessarily misinterpreted his performance every time--consequently they took his idiotic blunders for inspirations of genius; they did honestly! His mildest blunders were enough to make a man in his right mind cry; and they did make me cry--and rage and rave too, privately. And the thing that kept me always in a sweat of apprehension was the fact that every fresh blunder he made increased the lustre of his reputation! I kept saying to myself, he"ll get so high that when discovery does finally come it will be like the sun falling out of the sky.

He went right along up, from grade to grade, over the dead bodies of his superiors, until at last, in the hottest moment of the battle of.... down went our colonel, and my heart jumped into my mouth, for Scoresby was next in rank! Now for it, said I; we"ll all land in Sheol in ten minutes, sure.

The battle was awfully hot; the allies were steadily giving way all over the field. Our regiment occupied a position that was vital; a blunder now must be destruction. At this critical moment, what does this immortal fool do but detach the regiment from its place and order a charge over a neighbouring hill where there wasn"t a suggestion of an enemy! "There you go!" I said to myself; "this is the end at last."

And away we did go, and were over the shoulder of the hill before the insane movement could be discovered and stopped. And what did we find? An entire and unsuspected Russian army in reserve! And what happened? We were eaten up? That is necessarily what would have happened in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. But no; those Russians argued that no single regiment would come browsing around there at such a time. It must be the entire English army, and that the sly Russian game was detected and blocked; so they turned tail, and away they went, pell-mell, over the hill and down into the field, in wild confusion, and we after them; they themselves broke the solid Russia centre in the field, and tore through, and in no time there was the most tremendous rout you ever saw, and the defeat of the allies was turned into a sweeping and splendid victory! Marshal Canrobert looked on, dizzy with astonishment, admiration, and delight; and sent right off for Scoresby, and hugged him, and decorated him on the field in presence of all the armies!

And what was Scoresby"s blunder that time? Merely the mistaking his right hand for his left--that was all. An order had come to him to fall back and support our right; and instead he fell forward and went over the hill to the left. But the name he won that day as a marvellous military genius filled the world with his glory, and that glory will never fade while history books last.

He is just as good and sweet and lovable and unpretending as a man can be, but he doesn"t know enough to come in when it rains. He has been pursued, day by day and year by year, by a most phenomenal and astonishing luckiness. He has been a shining soldier in all our wars for half a generation; he has littered his military life with blunders, and yet has never committed one that didn"t make him a knight or a baronet or a lord or something. Look at his breast; why, he is just clothed in domestic and foreign decorations. Well, sir, every one of them is a record of some shouting stupidity or other; and, taken together, they are proof that the very best thing in all this world that can befall a man is to be born lucky.

Mark Twain (30.11.1835 - 21.04.1910) - American author.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on 30 November 1835 in Florida. His parents were John and Jane Clemens. After moving to Missouri John met Jane and some years later they married. There were seven children in their family but only four survived: Samuel, Henry, Orion and Pamela. Samuel was the sixth child.

At the age of 4 his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri. This town impressed him and it was later described in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Missouri was known as a slave state and this theme became apparent in his writings.

Mark Twain’s father was a judge. In 1847 he died when Samuel was eleven. In 1848 Samuel became an assistant of a printer. In three years he started working as a typesetter. His brother, Orion, owned a magazine and Mark worked on different articles for its content. At the age of eighteen Mark Twain left the town and began to work as a printer. He worked in different cities of the USA.

While a voyage to New Orleans Mark Twain met Horace E. Bixby who was a steamboat pilot. He later inspired a young author to be a pilot too. Afterwards Mark Twain persuaded his brother Henry to work together. In 1858 Henry died when the steamboat exploded. It is known that Mark Twain foresaw this accident in his a dream. After this he was interested in parapsychology. In 1859 Mark Twain got a steamboat pilot license. Samuel worked as a pilot until 1861.

Mark Twain had a wife Olivia Langdon. They married in 1870 though she refused his first marriage proposal. They lived in Buffalo, New York. He started working as a writer and editor in the newspaper. The married couple had 3 daughters: Jean, Clara and Susy. His son died of diphtheria. In 1904 Olivia died. They lived together for 34 years.

Mark Twain spent a lot of time in Hartford and at Quarry Farm where he wrote his famous writings including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn etc. In 1880 Mark Twain wrote A Tramp Abroad where he described his tour of Europe. While a tour he was in London and Heidelberg.

Mark Twain became a famous American author and orator. A lot of critics and peers appreciated his wit. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn made him noted. Mark Twain used different pen names that’s why some of his works are not known.

There was a period when Mark Twain felt low. In 1896 his daughter Susy died of meningitis. In 1904 his wife died and in 1909 Jean died. He also had a close friend, Henry Rogers, who died in 1909 too.

Mark Twain was born during a visit by Halley"s Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it”. This prophecy was exact. Mark Twain died of a heart attack in 1910. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery.

In 1867 Twain took a trip on the ship "The Quaker City." The collection of sketches "Innocents Abroad" which he wrote about the journey brought him fame.

In 1876 he published his world famous book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and only eight years later he finished his masterpiece "Huckleberry Finn."

In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote that "Huckleberry Finn" was the first and best book in American literature. William Faulkner said the same in 1955. Before Mark Twain, they said, there was only an American dialect, but after him there was an American language.

Many critics say that Twain’s books give a better picture of the period than history books.

Mark Twain died in 1910.

Notes

Samuel L. Clemens was born… — Самуэль Л. Клеменс родился… Глагол to bear (bore, born) употреблен в страдательном залоге в Past Indefinite Tense (формула страдательного залога: to be в соответствующем времени, лице и числе + Participle II , то есть причастие прошедшего времени смыслового глагола ).
he joined miners searching for silver — он присоединился к старателям, которые искали серебро (залежи серебра) . Глагол to search употреблен в форме причастия настоящего времени (Participle I). В данном предложении Present Participle выступает в функции определения (после существительного, к которому оно относится).
"The Jumping Frog" was published — Знаменитая скачущая лягушка из «Калавераса» была напечатана. Глагол to publish употреблен в страдательном залоге в Past Indefinite Tense (см. примеч.1).
"The Quaker City" — «Город квакеров» (название парохода).
there was an American language — появился американский язык (Фолкнер и Хемингуэй имели в виду «литературный язык»).

Words

adopt — 1. принимать 2. усыновлять
to adopt a resolution — принять резолюцию
to adopt a child — усыновить ребёнка
advise — советовать, рекомендовать
Did you advise Jill to read this book? - Вы посоветовали Джил прочитать эту книгу?
age — возраст
at an early age — в аннем возрасте
at the age of twenty — в возрасте двадцати лет
army — армия; the Confederate Army — армия конфедератов (армия конфедерации 11-ти южных штатов. которая боролась против армии северян в Гражданской войне 1862-65 гг.)
bank — берег (реки, пруда, озера)
There was a lot of people on the bank of the Mississippi River.
city — город; город, имеющий муниципалитет (в США); большой город (в Англии);
a city paper — городская газета
become (became, become) — делаться, становиться; превращаться;
to become rich — разбогатеть
before — до, раньше (во временном значении указывает на предшествование);
He came back before dinner. – Он вернулся до обеда.
begin (began, begun) — 1. начинать, приступать (к чему-либо) He began to write at the age of twenty. ; 2. начинаться; When does school begin? – Когда начинаются занятия в школе?
break (broke, broken) out — вспыхивать (о войне, пожаре, эпидемии);
When did the Civil War in the USA break out?
Civil War — Гражданская война (1862-65 гг. в США)
collection — собрание
a collection of stories — сборник рассказов
critic — критик
dialect — диалект; наречие
die — умирать
Hemingway died in 1961. – Хемингуэй умер в 1961 году.
during — в течение, во время
early — рано
east — восток
in the east — на востоке; the East — Восток, восточная часть США (территория, расположенная к востоку от р. Миссисипи)
enjoy — нравиться, получать удовольствие (от чего-л.)
to enjoy music — получать удовольствие от музыки
to enjoy every minute of it — получать огромное удовольствие (от чего-либо)
fail — 1. терпеть неудачу He failed to become a journalist. 2. подводить, не оправдывать ожиданий He failed me at the last minute. – Он подвел меня в последнюю минуту.
fame — слава, известность
to bring somebody a fame — принести кому-либо известность The first book brought the young writer fame.
famous — знаменитый, прославленный, известный
Mark Twain is a famous American writer. – Марк Твен – знаменитый американский писатель.
to become famous — стать знаменитым
fight (fought, fought) – сражаться, бороться
fight for – бороться за
finish – кончать(ся), заканчивать(ся), завершать(ся) Did you finish the book?
for — за (указывает на лицо или предмет, в поддержку или в защиту которого выступают)
give a picture of — давать представление (изображение) чего-либо
great — 1. большой, огромный 2. великий
a great city – огромный город; a great writer (painter, etc) – великий писатель (художник и т.д.)
humorist — юморист
humorous — юмористический
a humorous writer – юмористический писатель
a humorous story – юмористический рассказ
join — присоединяться
to join the army – пойти в армию Mark Twain did not want to join the Confederate Army. – Марк Твен не захотел вступить в армию конфедератов.
journey — поездка, путешествие
last — последний; last week (month, year) – на прошлой неделе (в прошлом месяце, году)
leave (left, left) school — бросить школу или окончить школу
Mark Twain had to leave school at an early age. – Марк Твен вынужден был бросить школу в раннем возрасте.
literature — литература
to study literature - изучать литературу
living — средства к существованию
to work for a living – зарабатывать на жизнь
What do you do for a living? – Кем вы работаете?
masterpiece — шедевр
miner — горняк, горнорабочий, шахтер, рудокоп
north — север in the north - на севере
period — период
periodical — журнал, периодическое издание
pilot — вести пароход (в качестве лоцмана)
printer — печатник
to work as a printer – работать печатником
pseudonym — псевдоним
to adopt a pseudonym – принять псевдоним
publish — издавать, опубликовывать
to be published – быть изданным (опубликованным) When was Mark Twain’s first book published?
reporter — – репортёр, корреспондент
rich — – богатый
to become rich – разбогатеть Mark Twain failed to become rich.
river — река
search for — искать что-либо
ship — пароход, корабль
silver — серебро
sketch — очерк, заметки