twain

twain

美 [tweɪn] 　英 [tweɪn]

• n.两
• num.二
• 网络吐温；马克·吐温；无趣名技术(Technology Without An Interesting Name)

英汉双解

习惯用语

英汉解释

n.	1. 〈古〉二,两,双,一对

英英解释

na.	1. the number 2

例句

Twain was an extremely popular personality during his day; he made friends with presidents and even European royalty.

吐温在他的年代是个炙手可热的人物。他和总统交朋友，甚至结交欧洲贵族。

Indeed, as Twain is often quoted as saying: history does not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.

事实上，拿被经常引述的马克吐温的话说：历史不会重演，但总是惊人的相似。

Betty: I don't know. Mark Twain was an important writer , but he isn't known as a great thinker like Confucius.

贝蒂：我不知道，马克·吐温是一位重要的作家，但他不像孔子那样作为一个伟大的思想家而闻名。

And yet, to paraphrase American writer and humorist Mark Twain, reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

但是，套用美国作家和幽默大师马克·吐温的话说，关于其死亡的报告被严重夸大。

Mark Twain is one of the American writers who had been introduced to China very early, and his works are quite familiar to Chinese readers.

马克•吐温是很早就被介绍到中国的著名美国作家之一，其作品广为我国读者熟悉。

German has three genders, seemingly so random that Mark Twain wondered why "a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has" .

德语有三种词性，而且似乎毫无规律可言。马克·吐温就曾提出疑问：“为什么妙龄女郎没有性别，而萝卜却有。”

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain.

习惯习惯，谁也将其扔出窗外，只能一步一步地引它下楼。---马克·吐温。

Twain softened the point with humor, but he made the point nonetheless.

马克·吐温采取幽默的笔法缓和了语气，但仍然论述了自己的观点。

In spite of his grief, Twain continued to amuse the American public with a seemingly inexhaustible store of wit and humor.

尽管他非常悲痛，马克·吐温仍以他那似乎永不枯竭的机智和幽默，使美国公众笑逐颜开。

Mark Twain to say that: "President Lincoln with a cloth napkin, facial expression happy to think: Why not put it cleaned it? "

马克吐温的说法是：「林肯总统拿著一张餐巾布，表情不悦地想著：为什麽不把它洗乾净呢？」

The twain cantered along for some time without speech, Tess as she clung to him still panting in her triumph, yet in other respects dubious.

他们两个骑着马慢慢向前跑了一阵，谁也没有说话，苔丝一直搂着他，由于战胜了对手，心里还在怦怦直跳，不过在其它方面，她心里却有些疑虑。

Twain, too, is something of the cynical pedagogue, though one of his San Francisco nicknames was the Wild Humorist of the Plains.

马克·吐温也有一点象愤世嫉俗的学究，虽然他在旧金山有一个绰号叫“平原上的野幽默家”。

Regarding the rates applicable to high earners and large estates, most Americans seem to be channeling Mark Twain.

考虑到这些税率适用于高收入人群和大地产商，多数美国人想起了马克.吐温。

My great sword seems to have been rent in twain, and being as my venture to reconstruct it has been temporarily quelled.

我的巨剑看起来变成两半了，而在我为修复它而冒险的过程中也暂时没法使用。

"Very well, since you insist on it, " said the General. He gave Mark Twain the money, led the dog away and disappeared upstairs.

“好吧，既然你坚持的话。”将军说。并把钱给了马克吐温，牵着那条狗消失在楼道上。

The death of his wife and his second daughter darkened Twain's later years, which is seen in his autobiography published after his death.

妻子和二女儿的死使晚年吐温的晚年生活黯然神伤，在他去世以后出版的自传中可以看到这一点。

In about ten minutes a middle-aged gentleman came along and began to look around. Mark Twain asked if he was looking for a dog.

大约十分钟之后，一个中年绅士走过来，东张西望。马克吐温问他是否在寻找一条狗。

Tragically, her mother and father died in a car crash when Twain was 21, forcing her to put aside music to support her younger siblings.

唐恩21岁的时候，父母不幸在一场车祸中丧生。这迫使她不得不把音乐放到一边，承担起抚养年幼弟妹的责任。

But Twain was acutely aware of his own ignorance, and his humor opened the door to self-exploration.

不过马克·吐温也敏锐地意识到自己的无知。他的幽默则为他开启了自省之门。

Sure enough, this was all Twain needed to hear, and he immediately volunteered to be a test subject.

无疑这就是一切吐温需要知道的，他听后立即表示愿意成为这项发明的实验对象。

Twain, too, is something of the cynical pedagogue, though one of his San Francisco nicknames was the Wild Humorist of the Plains.

马克·吐温也有一点象愤世嫉俗的学究，虽然他在旧金山有一个绰号叫“平原上的野幽默家”。

Twain's success as an author, public speaker, husband and father, was not reflected in his choice of business investments.

吐温是个出色的作家和演说家，也是个好丈夫和好父亲，但是他在经营商业上却一事无成。

Mark Twain, the novelist of American boyhood, survived like a ghost from the nineteenth-century past until 1910.

美国早期小说家马克·吐温象一个幽灵一样，从十九世纪一直活到1910年。

Somebody said that my short novels could stand up to Mark Twain's.

有人说我的短篇小说可以和马克吐温的媲美。

All of Twain's books are molded from the clay of his past.

马克·吐温的全部作品，都取材于自身的经历。

The twain, lighting a lantern, went out to the stable.

姐俩于是点起灯笼，上了马棚。

"The light of my life, " Twain lamented, has "gone out in utter darkness. "

“生命之光已经消失，”吐温痛苦地写道，“我陷入无尽的黑暗之中。”

"Mark Twain do not mind at all and said laughingly : " Lady, If, like me telling lies there.

马克·吐温毫不介意地笑笑说：“夫人，只要像我一样说假话就行了。”

Indeed, it would be difficult to find an issue on the horizon today that Twain did not touch on somewhere in his work.

确实，如今要想在目力所及的范围内找到一个吐温在自己的作品中未曾涉及的问题，非常之难。

Twain, then known as Samuel Clemens, marked his fourth birthday about a week after the family settled there.

当一家人在那里居了大约一个星期后，吐温（当时叫塞缪尔·克莱门斯）度过了四岁的生日。

Reports of my death, like Mark Twain's, were exaggerated. Sadly there was no Guardian obituary.

有关我和马克•吐温去世的报道都被夸大其词了。伤心的是《卫报》没有发讣告。

Mark Twain, one of our most famous writers, and Charlie Chaplin, the great movie comedian, dropped out of school before 8th grade.

最闻名的作家之一马克·土温以及伟大的喜剧演员查理·卓别林都在8年级之前就退了学。

Twain was a very witty fellow his wit and satire earned him the respect of his friends as well as his enemies.

吐温是个机智的家伙，他的机智风趣让他无论在朋友圈中还是敌人眼中都赢得了尊重。

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ----Mark Twain.

每个人都是一个月球，有他未被别人看到的阴暗的一面。

Twain goes on to claim that Miss Lyon, who was nearly three decades his junior, was trying to seduce him.

接着，吐温声称：里昂小姐，在他年轻时期的近三十年时间里一直想勾引他。

Samuel Langhorne Clemens more commonly known by his pen name Mark Twain was a great American author.

萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门是一位伟大的美国作家，他的笔名马克·吐温更为人熟知。

Mark Twain, who was to make such a blighting speech at the mass meeting of the Independents last night, didn't come to time!

马克-吐温先生原定于昨晚独立党民众大会上作一次损伤对方的演说，却未履行其义务。

As Mark Twain is supposed to have said, history may not always repeat itself, but it sure rhymes.

就像据称马克-吐温（MarkTwain）说过的那样，历史也许不会总是重演，但古今定有相似之处。

By 1853, Mark Twain was tired of Missouri. He got an urge to see the world and started out with empty pockets.

到了1853年，马克吐温对密苏里感到厌倦了，他迫切地想去看看世界，于是身无分文就出发了。

Mark Twain was a important writer , but he isn't known as a great thinker like Confucius .

马克.吐温是一位重要的作家，但他并不像孔子那样作为伟大的思想家而文明于世。

In an open letter in 1869 Twain told him, "You are the idol of only a crawling swarm of small souls. "

在1869年一封公开信上，吐温说他：“你只是那群卑微的渺小灵魂的偶像。”

Mark Twain drew a vivid picture of his hometown and the Mississippi region of which he knew best in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

马克吐温吸引了他的家乡和密西西比地区，而他知道在汤姆索亚和哈克贝利费恩最生动的画面。

While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, Henry James was an admirer of ancient European civilization.

马克。吐温和豪威尔斯不时的讽刺欧洲传统，而詹姆斯却羡慕欧洲文明。

Twain's success as an author, public speaker, husband and father, was not reflected in his choice of business investments.

吐温是个出色的作家和演说家，也是个好丈夫和好父亲，但是他在经营商业上却一事无成。

Samuel Clemens's career prior to becoming the much-loved Mark Twain was as a "tramp" printer, as they were known in America.

萨缪尔.克莱门斯在成为深受人们喜爱的马克.吐温之前，就曾是一个“流浪”印刷匠，这是他们在美国的称号。

"Twain" is an old-fashioned way of saying "two" and a fathom is six feet.

是「2」的旧式说法，而一噚等于六英尺。