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● 音乐声作，戏又将开场。观众的上身往前倾——这是很自然的反应，但写文章的人能有几个会注意到这种“小节”？
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● arc of the curtain：幕是成弧状地升上去。未升之前，不见其成弧状（arc），故high与arc不能分。幕升上去，很整齐，很灵巧，很利落（坐在远处就注意不到了，所以一定要在作者座位更动后才描写），一个十一岁的女孩子看起来一定觉得很奇怪，所以说“好像是一百只看不见的小手把它提起来的”。
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● bathed：舞台“浴”于灯光之中。willowy green：杨柳似的绿（请注意作者此处选字的功夫）。
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● backdrop：作为布景的一块幕。splotched：斑斑点点地涂上去。gawkheaded：头的姿态很笨拙的。artificiality：人为性。树叶和小鸟都是画上去的，故云artificial（人为的），小孩子看舞台布景，明知是假的，但是看上去更有劲。要问什么理由，自己也说不上来。for some reason：为了某种理由。
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The dancers stepped forward, the make-up sharp on their faces.
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But how near, how human they were! Their eyes moved, their lips smiled. Rising together and beginning to twirl on the tips of their toes, they were much more admirable from here than from afar!
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● make-up：脸上的化装，脂粉油彩。sharp：很明显的。make-up和sharp之间，照一般语法书说来，该有一个现在分词“being”。
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● 作者坐近了，看得清楚了，大为兴奋。how human…：多么像人。请不要忘记：刚才只像木偶。
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● twirl：旋转。注意介词用on。
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It was a warm spring night. The sky appeared to reflect a pleasant tropical heat. Men wearing sky blue jackets leapt to girls whose dresses ruffled like swans. Their smiles mingled, their arms embroidered the air with wonderful patterns. Several more dancers came forward, carrying garlands of green and yellow flowers into which they wove themselves. And all with such remarkable enjoyment! Surely something marvelous was going to happen.
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● warm spring night：不可能指演戏的那天晚上，而是指舞台上所表现的情景。作者已经把全副精神放到台上去了。
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● reflect：反射出来。tropical：热带的。
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● jacket：短上衣。leapt to=leapt to meet：跳过去迎接，to是介词。ruffled：起皱纹像天鹅（swans）的毛一样地蓬松起来。男舞人们穿的是天蓝色上衣，舞娘们的衣服可能是白色的。
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● mingled：混合。（男女舞人的笑容怎么会混合起来的呢？）patterns：图案。embroidered：刺绣。手臂舞动，在空中绣出种种奇妙的图案。
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● garlands：花圈。into which they wove themselves：把自己也编进花圈里去。使人看得眼花缭乱，“人”“花”不分。wove是weave（编织）的过去式。
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● enjoyment：舞人们做种种动作，精神显得很是愉快。
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● 舞蹈如此，似乎已尽美矣；然而不然，这一切似乎不过都是准备。好戏还在后头。
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And then it did.
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Suddenly the music stopped. The only sound to be heard was a thin, somewhat unsteady tone of a violin. The gaily costumed characters moved back silently and made way for someone.
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A little flap in the backdrop pulled open. And a young man stepped forth.
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● And then it did.=And then something marvelous did happen.奇妙的事果然发生了。
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● unsteady：不稳定的，似断似续的；两个字都形容小提琴的声音。
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● gaily costumed：衣服色彩鲜艳的。characters：剧中人物。made way for：让开路，好让别人走。
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● flap：幕上可启闭的小门。
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The rest of the dancers departed and left him alone. The lights took on a white hue and one saw that the young man was very pale with dark-penciled eyes. He was dressed in a light blousing shirt and tight breeches of cream-colored satin.
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