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全国汤姆索尔日(National
Tom
Sawyer Days)
地方性遗产
汤姆索尔及跳蛙有什么共通点？这两个故事拥有同一位创作人：马克吐温。原名塞缪尔朗赫恩克里门斯(Samuel
Clemens：马克吐温是他的笔名)的马克吐温于四岁时，随着家人一起搬到了密苏里州，位于密西西比河西岸的汉尼拔。吐温在此度过他的童年时期，并对河边的生活深感着迷，包括蒸气船、巨大的木伐及在其上工作的人。
「卡拉韦拉斯县驰名的跳蛙」(The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County)是吐温最爱的短篇故事之一，而汤姆历险记(The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer)则是他的着名小说之一。全国汤姆日会举办不同的活动，旨在颂扬上述两件作品。照片中的小男孩，为他的青蛙报名参加跳跃竞赛。现场也会举办漆栏杆比赛，看看谁能最短的时间内完成油漆工作。这项竞赛的主意来自于汤姆历险记书中一幕，书中的汤姆被告知要将屋前的栏杆上漆，但那天的天气晴朗，汤姆情愿去做别的事。因此当他的朋友路经他家时，汤姆说服他的朋友漆栏杆是一件有趣的事，并邀请他们一起添加这件「趣事」。当这一天退出时，栏杆已经上过三遍漆了！
虽然汤姆历险记是小说，但它的内容是根据事实改编而成。假如您有机会来到汉尼拔，别忘了看看至今仍伫立在吐温孩童时期的家外，那片白色的栏杆。
What do Tom Sawyer and jumping frogs have in common? Stories about both of them were created by one man: Mark Twain. Born Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain was his pen name), Twain was 4 when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, located on the west bank of the Mississippi. Twain grew up there and was fascinated with life along the river -- the steamboats, the giant lumber rafts, and the people who worked on them.
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is one of Twain's best-loved short stories, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of his most famous novels. Both these works are celebrated by events held during National Tom Sawyer Days. The boy in the photo entered his frog in the jumping contest. There's also a fence-painting contest to see who can paint the fastest. The idea for this contest comes from a scene in Tom Sawyer, in which Tom has been told to paint the fence in front of the house he lives in. It's a beautiful day, and he would rather be doing anything else. As his friends walk by, he convinces them it's fun to paint, and they join in the "fun." By the end of the day, the fence has three coats of paint!
Although the story of Tom Sawyer is fiction, it's based on fact. If you go to Hannibal, you'll see the white fence, which still stands at Twain's boyhood home.
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