把下面的文章翻译成英文，不用翻译软件，翻译要准确。

Question

《汤姆·索亚历险记》是美国小说家马克·吐温1876年发表的代表作品，小说的故事发生在19世纪上半世纪美国密西西比河畔的一个普通小镇上。主人公汤姆·索亚天真活泼、敢于探险、追求自由，不堪忍受枯燥乏味的生活，幻想干一番英雄事业。小说的时代在南北战争前，写的虽是圣彼得堡小镇，但该镇某种程度上可以说是当时美国社会的缩影。小说通过主人公的冒险经历，对美国虚伪庸俗的社会习俗、伪善的宗教仪式和刻板陈腐的学校教育进行了讽刺和批判，以欢快的笔调描写了少年儿童自由活泼的心灵。

Answer 1

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is the American novelist Mark Twain representative works published in 1876, the story of the novel takes place in the first half of the 19th century the American century, an ordinary small town along the Mississippi River. Hero Tom Sawyer lively, daring adventure, the pursuit of freedom, unbearable boring life, do something heroic fantasy career. Age novel before the Civil War, though it is written in the small town of St. Petersburg, but the town can be said to some extent a microcosm of American society at the time. Novels by the hero's adventures, vulgar hypocrisy of American social customs, religious hypocrisy and rigid stereotypes of school education was satire and criticism to describe the children's cheerful tone free and lively mind.