Synopsis of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
克莱门斯的小说《汤姆·索亚历险记》于1876年以笔名马克·吐温出版。
在昏昏欲睡的密西西比河小镇密苏里州圣彼得堡，富有想象力和顽皮的汤姆·索亚和他骄傲的兄弟希德与他们朴素善良的波莉姨妈住在一起。希德因为汤姆逃学而对他“恭维”，汤姆被罚粉刷篱笆，但他巧妙地带领他的朋友们为他做这件事，假装这是一种特权。当他的心上人贝萁·撒切尔因为汤姆透露他以前恋爱过而生气时，他临时决定放弃成为言听计从的乖孩子的努力，再次逃学，并决定成为海盗或罗宾汉一样的英雄。汤姆和他的好伙伴哈克·费恩，一个性情温和、不负责任的野孩子，在午夜去墓地玩死猫，哈克建议这样做是为了治疗疣。他们看到印第安·乔伊，一个混血罪犯，刺死了镇上的医生，并将刀放在醉酒的穆夫·波特手中。在受到波莉姨妈的进一步责骂和贝萁的进一步斥责后，汤姆和哈克、乔伊·哈珀躲在杰克逊岛附近。他们的朋友相信他们被淹死了，但他们的葬礼被迫中断，因为有人发现教堂走廊里的“尸体”正在观看他们自己的葬礼。汤姆回到学校，与贝萁和他的姨妈和解，并在穆夫·波特的审判中成为英雄，因为他揭露了印第安·乔伊的罪行。汤姆和贝萁参加了一次学校野餐，在一个山洞里迷路了几天，汤姆发现了印第安·乔伊。后来，这个混血儿被发现死了，他的宝藏被汤姆和哈克瓜分，哈克被道格拉斯寡妇收养。哈克唯一的安慰是，自从他回归普通人的幸福生活后，汤姆答应凭借他的社会地位让他加入强盗团伙。
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, , novel by Clemens, published in1876 under his pseudonym Mark Twain.
In the drowsy Mississippi River town of St.Petersburg, Missouri, Tom Sawyer, imaginative and mischievous, and his priggish brother Sid, live with their simple, kind-hearted Aunt Polly.Sid 'peaches' on Tom for playing hookey,and Tom is punished by being made to whitewash a fence, but ingeniously leads his friends to do this job for him, by pretending it is a privilege.When his sweetheart, Becky Thatcher,is angered because Tom reveals that he has previously been in love, he forsakes a temporary effort at virtue, plays hookey, and decides to become a pirate or a Robin Hood. With his boon companion, Huck Finn, a good-natured, irresponsible river-rat, Tom goes to a graveyard at midnight to swing a dead cat, an act advised by Huck as a cure for warts.They watch Injun Joe, a half-breed criminal, who stabs the town doctor to death, and places the knife in the hands of drunken Muff Potter.After being further scolded by Aunt Polly, and further spurned by Becky, Tom, with Huck and Joe Harper, hides on near-by Jackson's Island. Their friends believe them drowned, but their funeral service is interrupted by the discovery of the 'corpses,' who are listening from the church gallery. Tom returns to school,is reconciled with Becky and his aunt, and becomes a hero at the trial of Muff Potter, when he reveals Injun Joe's guilt. Tom and Becky attend a school picnic, and are lost for several days in a cave where Tom spies Injun Joe. Later the half-breed is found dead, and his treasure is divided between Tom and Huck,after which the latter is adopted by the Widow Douglas. His only consolation,since he has surrendered his state of unwashed happiness, lies in Tom's promise to admit him to his robber gang on the strength of his social
standing.
