Czytaj po angielsku - Przygody Tomka Sawyera wstęp

MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were {tooltip}schoolmates{end-link}koledzy ze szkoły{end-tooltip} of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual--he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.

The {tooltip}odd{end-link}dziwaczny{end-tooltip} {tooltip}superstitions{end-link}przesądy{end-tooltip} touched upon were all {tooltip}prevalent{end-link}powszechnie występujący{end-tooltip} among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story--that is to say, thirty or forty years ago. Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.

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schoolmates- koledzy ze szkoły
odd- dziwaczny
superstitions- przesądy
prevalent- powszechnie występujący