英语词汇reports of my death are greatly exaggerated的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. A traditional story has it that in 1897 an American newspaper bannered Mark Twain’s death. When another paper sent a reporter to check the story Twain came to the door of his Connecticut home and gave him the following statement: “James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago, but is well now. The reports of my illness grew out of his illness. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Nothing any scholar says will change this tale, which is by now part of American folklore, but the true story is that a reporter from the New York Journal called on Twain while the author was staying in England—to check out a rumor that Twain was either dead or dying in poverty. Twain explained to the reporter that his cousin had been seri- ously ill in London and that reports of his own illness grew out of his cousin’s illness, that “the report of my death was an exag- geration.” But then maybe Twain had the facts wrong. “When I was younger,” he confided toward the end of his life, “I could re- member anything, whether it had happened or not; but my fac- ulties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remem- ber any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.”

词汇	reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
词源	reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. A traditional story has it that in 1897 an American newspaper bannered Mark Twain’s death. When another paper sent a reporter to check the story Twain came to the door of his Connecticut home and gave him the following statement: “James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago, but is well now. The reports of my illness grew out of his illness. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Nothing any scholar says will change this tale, which is by now part of American folklore, but the true story is that a reporter from the New York Journal called on Twain while the author was staying in England—to check out a rumor that Twain was either dead or dying in poverty. Twain explained to the reporter that his cousin had been seri- ously ill in London and that reports of his own illness grew out of his cousin’s illness, that “the report of my death was an exag- geration.” But then maybe Twain had the facts wrong. “When I was younger,” he confided toward the end of his life, “I could re- member anything, whether it had happened or not; but my fac- ulties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remem- ber any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.”
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