Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835. A child of the American South, he was four years old when his family moved to the town of Hannibal, Missouri. When Twain was just 11 years old, he left school and began his lifelong study of the written language. Interestingly enough, working with words was not Twain's first dream. What he really wanted to do was to be a steamboat pilot and travel up and down the waters of the Mississippi River.

山謬•朗赫恩•克里門斯較為人所熟知的是他的筆名「馬克•吐溫」，他出生於1835年十一月三十日。他是個來自美國南方的小孩，他四歲時全家搬到密蘇里州的漢尼拔鎮。吐溫才十一歲時，他就輟學並開始他畢生對書寫語文的研究。有趣的是，文字工作並非吐溫最初的夢想。他真正想要做的是當一位汽船駕駛員，並來回行駛在密西西比河水上。 

生活必備字詞

lifelong a.終身的，畢身的
Interestingly enough, ...　　有趣的是，..
Interestingly enough, Victor did not try to deny the rumor.
steamboat n.汽船；輪船
up and down　　來來回回；上上下下
Edward jumped up and down to get his friend's attention.