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Memoir · Travel · 1883

Life on the Mississippi

미시시피강의 삶

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Mark Twain recalls his years as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi before the Civil War. He then describes a return trip along the river years later.

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“Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world--four thousand three hundred miles.” Life on the Mississippi · Mark Twain

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THE Mississippi is well worth reading about.

미시시피 강은 읽어볼 만한 가치가 있습니다.

It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable.

이 강은 평범한 강이 아니라 오히려 모든 면에서 놀라운 강입니다.

Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world--four thousand three hundred miles.

미주리강을 본류로 생각하면 세계에서 가장 긴 강은 4,300마일이다.

It seems safe to say that it is also the crookedest river in the world, since in one part of its journey it uses up one thousand three hundred miles to cover the same ground that the crow would fly over in six hundred and seventy-five.

또한 이 강은 세상에서 가장 구불구불한 강이라고 해도 무방할 것 같습니다. 왜냐하면 이 강은 여정의 한 부분에서 까마귀가 675마일을 날아가는 거리를 1,300마일이나 지나가기 때문입니다.

It discharges three times as much water as the St. Lawrence, twenty-five times as much as the Rhine, and three hundred and thirty-eight times as much as the Thames.

이 강은 세인트로렌스 강보다 세 배, 라인 강보다 스물다섯 배, 템스 강보다 삼백삼십팔 배나 많은 물을 방류합니다.

No other river has so vast a drainage-basin: it draws its water supply from twenty-eight States and Territories; from Delaware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope--a spread of forty-five degrees of longitude.

다른 어떤 강도 이처럼 광대한 유역을 가지고 있지 않습니다. 이 강은 28개 주와 준주에서 물을 끌어옵니다. 대서양 연안의 델라웨어 주에서부터 태평양 연안의 아이다호 주까지의 모든 지역, 즉 경도 45도에 걸쳐 펼쳐져 있습니다.

The Mississippi receives and carries to the Gulf water from fifty-four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels.

미시시피 강은 증기선으로 항해 가능한 54개의 지류 강과 평저선 및 용골선으로 항해 가능한 수백 개의 지류 강으로부터 물을 받아 멕시코만으로 운반합니다.

The area of its drainage-basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Turkey; and almost all this wide region is fertile; the Mississippi valley, proper, is exceptionally so.

그 유역의 면적은 잉글랜드, 웨일스, 스코틀랜드, 아일랜드, 프랑스, ​​스페인, 포르투갈, 독일, 오스트리아, 이탈리아, 터키의 면적을 합친 것만큼 크고, 이 넓은 지역의 거의 전부가 비옥하며, 특히 미시시피 계곡은 매우 비옥합니다.

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Book details

Title
Life on the Mississippi (미시시피강의 삶)
Author
Mark Twain
First published
1883
Genre
Memoir, Travel, History
Original language
English
Translations in app
21 languages
Price
Free

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