I later joked that I knew I was in trouble when, at the ten-minute mark, the American Samoan delegation started roasting a pig.

后来我开玩笑说，在演讲进行到十分钟的时候，美国萨摩亚人代表团开始“在火上烤起乳猪来”，我知道我的演讲要搞砸了。

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"MARK TWAIN had it backwards," Steve Schneider joked, in a lecture he gave to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1972.

1972年，史蒂夫·施奈德在美国科学促进会(AAAS)演讲时开玩笑地说：“马克·吐温也有言及不到的地方。”

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Mark Twain joked at, yes.

马克·吐温在开玩笑，是的。

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