单词Mencken
n.: 门肯
网络: 孟肯；亨利·路易斯·门肯；门肯文集
门肯(H.L.,1880—1956,美国著名教育家、评论家)
门肯〔姓氏〕
He would not be quite able to comprehend why a black boy would want to read Mencken.
他不太能搞清楚为什么一个黑孩子要读门肯的书。
I had admired and almost idolized Mencken as a writer long before I got to meet him, about 1930 or so.
在见到他之前，我一直把他当做作家来崇拜，几乎把他当做偶像；大约1930年时，我才见到了他。
I wondered what on earth this Mencken had done to call down upon him the scorn of the South.
我在想这位门肯先生到底做了什么事以至于引得南方对他嘲弄。
Then what ideas did Mencken hold that made a newspaper like the Commercial Appeal castigate him publicly?
那么门肯持有什么样的观点使得象《商业呼声》这样的报纸公开攻击他？
I used the word "nigger" to make the librarian feel that I could not possibly be the author of the note have some books by H. L. Mencken?
我使用了“黑鬼”这个词是为了让图书管理员不认为我写这张便条？？借几本H.L。门肯的书好吗？
But many young people thought Mencken was a hero whose only crime was writing the truth.
但是，许多年轻人觉得门肯是一个英雄，他唯一的罪过就是写下事实。
Mencken once declared that "nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the great American public" .
曾宣称，“从来没有人因为低估美国大众的品味而破产”。
America, Mencken"s homeland, executes around 40 people a year for murder. Yet it still has a high murder rate.
门肯的祖国，美国每年因为谋杀罪要处死大约40人，然而谋杀率依然居高不下。
"I don"t know what he wants by Mencken, " she said under her breath.
“我不知道他要门肯的什么书？”她低声说道。
Social criticism also was central to the writing of the newspaper writer H. L. Mencken, from the eastern city of Baltimore.
报纸作家H•L•门肯来自东部城市巴尔的摩，社会批评也是他的作品里的主流。