不平凡的人生英语

他的人生是一段不平凡的经历，以至于他成为了一个传奇的人物He had such an extraordinary life experience, which made him a legend.

[马克.吐温,不平凡的一生] Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was not only a great writer but also a famous humorist.· He was born in a small Missouri village near the Mississippi River in 1835. His father, a poor lawyer, died when he was only twelve years old. So he had to leave school and make his own living. For ten years, he worked in printing shops in many cities. Then he became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi. In 1861, Mark Twain became a miner in Nevada. During this period, he started to write short articles. It was as this time that he adopted the pen name "Mark Twain".· Later Mark Twain worked in San Francisco for a while and then became a miner again. In his spare time, he wrote a short story called Tile Celebrated Jumping Frog ofCalaveras Coun.ty. The story made him known all over the country. In 1867, he went to New York and that year published his first book. His next book, hmocentsAbroad, was published in 1869. It gave him a national reputation.· In 1870, Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon. In the years following his marriage, he wrote the novels for which he is most famous Tom Sawyer in 1876, Tire Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884, and A Connecticut Yankee ill King Arthur's Court in 1889.

his life was a string of unusual experiences, which made him a legend

extraordinary 超凡的＝不平凡