就连乐于开怀大笑的马克吐温也说，当谈到人像照片时，“没有什么比一个又傻又蠢的微笑被永远定格更可怕的了”。

Even Mark Twain, a man who enjoyed a hearty laugh, said that when it came to photographic portraits there could be "nothing more damning than a silly, foolish smile fixed forever".

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第二天早上，我吃早餐时无精打采地看着报纸，看到了这段话：1863年，于瓦卡瓦克，34人控告州长候选人马克吐温先生作伪证。他打算掠夺一个贫穷女人的土地，她丈夫死后，这块地是她唯一的容身之所和支撑。

The next morning, as I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast, I came across this paragraph: PERJURY—Mr. Mark Twain, a candidate for Governor, was convicted of perjury by thirty-four people, in Wakawak, in 1863. He intended to rob a poor woman of her land, her only stay and support after her husband died.

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他在读一本马克吐温写的书。

He was reading a book that(which) was written by Mark Twain.

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And so part of the wilderness experience for me I think Mark Twain talks about wilderness and he says, I do it chiefly because it is difficult.

对于我来说，荒野的经验就像是,马克吐温在谈到荒野时所说，因为困难，所以我才去做。

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