早在六年前，他就已经在一篇文章中指名道姓地抨击了美国最为著名的“幽默作家”——马克•吐温。
In an essay six years earlier, he had already attacked by name the most famous American funnyman of all, Mark Twain.
150年前马克.吐温（Mark Twain ）访问大马士革时幽默的评论这座三千年的古城：“她已经见识了一千个帝国的枯骨，而在她消亡之前，它会再看到另外一千个帝国的坟墓。”
On a visit 150 years ago Mark Twain wrote wryly of the three-millennia-old city: “She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies.”
吐温于1910年4月21日逝世，享年74岁。 在他逝世前4年的时间里，他向速记员口述了大部分的自传内容。
Twain dictated most of it to a stenographer in the four years before his death at 74 on April 21, 1910.
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