汤姆·索耶历险记中英文朗读（106）

court奉承
admire欣赏 赞叹
biographical传记的
sketch素描 略图
invest投资
income收入
exceed超过
commonplace平凡的
magnanimous宽宏的 坦荡的
hatchet斧头

Wherever Tom and Hack wet they were courted，admired，stared at. The village paper even published biographical sketches of the boys.
Widow Douglas and Judge Thatcher invested the twelve thousand dollars on behalf of Tom and Huckleberry. Each boy now had an income that far exceeded their needs.
Judge Thatcher came to have a great opinion of Tom. He said that no commonplace boy would have gotten his daughter out of the cave. When Becky told her father how Tom had taken her whipping at school，the Judge was moved.
He said that it was a noble，a generous，a magnanimous lie that was a match for George Washington＇s lauded Truth about the hatchet!
Judge Thatcher hoped to see Tom become a great lawyer or a great soldier some day.He said he would personally make sure that Tom is admitted to the National Military Academy and
afterward trained in the best law school in the country.