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精品文档Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. 马克吐温曾被叫做美国小说的发明者。And he surly deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.并且他当然值得额外的赞扬：一个普及灵活的文学的攻击对种族歧视。注：难点1, popularized 使受欢迎 使有名望 普及 推广 使通俗化 使易懂难点2, clever 聪明的 灵活的I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War.我说（他）灵活是因为反奴隶制度小说已经成为重要的部分of文学在内战前几年。H.B Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin is only the most famous example.H的汤姆叔叔的小屋是唯一的最出名的例子。These early stories dealt directly with slavery.这些早期的故事直接地解决了奴隶制。With minor expectation,Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.伴随着极少的期望，吐温安置他的攻击在奴隶制和偏见于故事，那些故事是安置在其他的某些事表面完全地。转译：那些故事在完全其他事物的表面体现出来，可以理解成表现得隐晦。He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.他把读者拉近这个观点通过把他们拉近这个故事。Again and again,in the postwar years,Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of the race.一次又一次，在战后的几年里，吐温好像被强迫去解决质疑of种族。难点1,postwar 超纲词猜测 postpone意思是推迟即往后退 post-有往后的意思 所以 postwar 是战后的意思。难点2,challenge翻译成？挑战 怀疑 质问 艰巨任务 考验 质疑Consider the most controversial, (为什么动词原形句首？)at least today, of Twains novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.考虑最具有质疑的吐温的小说，至少在今天是，A。Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twains most widely read tale.只有几本书已经被移除书架像Huckleberry Finn一样多次，那是吐温被阅读最广泛的书籍。as often as 每当; 每次; 像.一样地多次Once upon a time,people hated the book because it stuck them as rude.从前，人们恨这本书因为它钉住他们正如（把他们描述成）粗鲁的。翻译难点：stuck要会意译！没有一个基本意思对得上。stick v. 刺; 刺死; 戮; 钉住; 粘住; 陷住; 钉住; 梗塞Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book consider the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(贫民窟)”吐温自己写道：那些禁止这本书的人认为这小说垃圾并且仅适合贫民困。More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim,the escaped slave,and many occurrence of the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim for which the novel has often severely criticized,never appears in it.)最近这本书被攻击因为人物Jim，那个逃跑的奴隶，以及很多出现“nigger”的地方。（术语黑人，这本书常常严格地批评的，从未在此出现）转译：专门拿来侮辱黑人的词Nigger,也同时是这本书常常批评的（种族歧视），从未在书里出现。意思是书里面出现了Nigger但绝对不是拿来侮辱黑人的术语，因为这本书常常批评种族歧视。But the attack were and are silly-and miss the point.The novel is strongly anti-slavery.但是这些攻击曾经或是现在都是愚蠢的，并且没有get到（吐温的）point。这本书是强烈的反奴隶主义的。Jims search through the state for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic.Jim的搜索，一个穿越整个州为了找到那个家庭的搜索，那个家庭是他（逃跑时）被强迫分开的，这个搜索是英勇的。转译：Jim在逃跑之后干了一件英勇的是即回去找当年那个被强迫与他分开的家庭。As J. Chadwick has point out ,the character of Jim was a first in American fiction-a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual:Jim,the father and the man.”正如JC以及指出，Jim这个人物是第一个美国小说中的一个承认，一个认为奴隶(也)有双重性格的承认，“幸存的