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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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Stepping forward, with casual grace, he began to dance.
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● the lights took on a white hue：灯光本来绿如春日之柳，现在绿得稍微淡一点了（hue：颜色的浓淡层次）。淡淡的绿光照着，青年舞蹈家的脸色显得苍白，相形之下，他的眼睛也很明显地看出是经过黑铅笔勾划过的。
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● light：轻飘飘的，形容shirt。blouse本意是“宽松的上衣”，因此可作动词（=to assume a blouse-like form，宽宽松松，作blouse状。解见《韦氏新国际字典》）。blousing是动词blouse的现在分词。裤子（breeches）很紧。全身衣服，都是乳黄色缎子所做成。
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● 他向前走来，漫不经心（casual），而姿势优雅（grace）；举起双臂，舞将起来了。
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At first, all I could realize of him was the delicate-footed motion, the coolness and lightness of the figure. He wore soft close-fitting slippers and the insteps of his feet were so beautiful and alive that I fell in love with them at once. He was small and perfectly formed, slender-hipped and probably quite typical of the ballet dancer. And perhaps there was something too mannered and too self-conscious in the face. His eyes were drawn to appear elongated, Oriental. The head was finely shaped, dark-haired. But the very self-conscious style of him seemed to add to the charm. What could equal the stance, the quick lightning movements of the body, or the severe control of its quietness?
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● all I could realize of him：我所能看出来的（realize=be fully aware of）。figure：身段。coolness：冷静，不露出狂热。lightness：轻灵。
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● close-fitting slippers：贴肉的软底舞鞋。insteps：脚背。这个小女孩子最先爱上的不是那个舞蹈家的脸，也不是他的身段，更不是他的不可捉摸的精神，而是他的脚背！一个芭蕾舞蹈家最迷人的地方恐怕该是他的灵活的脚背吧。
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● perfectly formed：身材合度。slender-hipped：臀部瘦细。typical of the ballet dancer：是个典型的芭蕾舞蹈家。
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● 下一句讲脸上的表情。mannered：做作的。self-conscious：自觉的（自觉在表演，未能忘我，艺术恐尚未臻化境）。
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● drawn：勾划（可能作“吊起”解）。elongated, Oriental：细长的，像是东方人的。西洋人以为东方人的眼睛大多是斜而细长的。
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● the very self-conscious style of him…：他的表演虽未能忘我，似乎却益显其为人之可爱。very是形容词，加重语气之用。
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● stance：站的姿势。its quietness的its指the body’s。
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But none of these features by themselves gave the full effect. The complete harmonious accord of the moment—there was no way to explain it.
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When the ballet was over and the dancers were bowing outside the curtain, I felt a terrible childish sadness, the kind that is felt only after the accidental pleasure. It is a puzzling sensation, the regret for the loss of that which one had not—no, never—even hoped for in the first place!
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