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1705005888 此句中的father前面就没有冠词。又，职位前面，常有无需冠词the者，如Queen of England，headmaster of a school等，这里的manager这个字，既然用在动词had been之后，是个主语补足词，又是一个职位的名称（经理），不加the，并不是一种奇怪的用法。但这种用法并不是一定的规则，读者还得于读书时随时留意为要。

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1705005890 ● summer theater：美国的夏季是戏剧季节，平常不大演戏的小城小镇，到了夏天就会有剧团租场演出，这种戏院就叫做summer theater（恐怕是为吸引避暑游客而设的）。the Cape：cape原意是海岬。这篇小说的背景大约是美国东北部一带，所指海岬恐怕是麻萨诸塞州的避暑胜地Cape Cod。

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1705005892 ● a kind of apprenticeship：一种实习。这位青年希望干戏剧活动（the theater），暑假里先实习起来。

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1705005894 ● He was eighteen：十八岁。请参照本段最后一句：when she was Ralph’s age。人不就是年龄，可是中间可以用动词was。

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1705005896 ● guest-stars：客串明星。tired or retired actors：厌倦舞台生涯或业已退隐的伶人，广东话有个较能传神的说法：过气老倌。（tired和retired两个字连用，很巧妙。）那些小剧院所能请到的大明星，无非是些过时人物。

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1705005898 ● Odd：当系It was odd的简略，“这是很奇怪的。”

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1705005900 ● what it would mean：这个人的名字有什么意义呢？

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1705005902 ● appreciate：欣赏，了解。matinée idol：舞台名伶，尤其是拥有女性观众的男明星。在英美各国看下午上演的matinée“日戏”观众，过去以女性占大多数。故她们的舞台偶像称为matinée idols。

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1705005904 ● 文章写到这里，一个是母亲，一个是儿子，已经说得明明白白了。

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1705005906 Idol was not the word. She had fallen in love with him. And it was not too much to say that she had never really fallen out of love. Her love had never been requited or fulfilled, had never even been communicated. Gavin Douglas had been unaware of her very existence—except as a pair of clapping hands among all those other clapping hands that had become routine to him.

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1705005908 ● 说他是她的偶像，还不完全对。她不仅是像普通女学生那样崇拜这位大明星而已，她是真“爱”他的。

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1705005910 ● it was not too much to say：说这样的话也不算过分，事实的确如此。她于二十年前陷入情网，迄今犹未自拔。

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1705005912 ● requited：得到报答。“单恋”是unrequited love。fulfilled：圆满实现。communicated：表达出来。这一句里三个动词用得都很有劲。

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1705005914 ● unaware of her very existence：根本不知这天下有她这么一个女人。very是形容词。

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1705005916 ● 她虽然盲目痴恋，台上人只知道台下纷纷鼓掌，在掌声雷动之中，有她这么一双手掌，他怎么能分别出来呢？假如他知道有她这么一个人，也无非是知道台下有一双手掌而已。

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1705005918 ● other：这个字在逻辑上是说得通的。among=in or into the midst of。在许多“其他”手掌之间，她的那双也在鼓掌。routine：习以为常的事情，“家常便饭”。

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1705005920 She never told her love except to Smith Harvey, the boy she married. She had had to tell someone and it was Smith she told inevitably. Smith was a junior at the University of Rochester when she was a freshman. They had met during her first year and, with no thought of the marriage that was to take place later, had started going together. One Saturday he took her to the matinée at the Lyceum to see the famous Constance Hope and her leading man Gavin Douglas in Romeo and Juliet. She had fallen in love at sight with the handsome actor, and through him (though no two men in the world could have been more unlike) with Smith Harvey.

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1705005922 ● 她私下恋慕之情，不得不对人说。她那时有一个男朋友，很自然地（inevitably）她就对他说了。

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1705005924 ● junior：三年级学生。University of Rochester：在纽约州的Rochester。

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1705005926 ● started going together：开始一同出去玩。他们以后结为夫妇，但是在开始的时候，他们并没有想到婚姻之事。take place：发生或举行。“婚姻发生”是很坏的中文，可是这是合口语习惯的英文的。

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1705005928 ● the Lyceum：戏院名。以前上海有家同名的戏院，中文译名为“兰心”，此字原指雅典一处花园，当年亚里斯多德讲学之所。注意：戏院的Theater可以不写出来，但冠词the非加不可。同样的，扬子江的英文名称，可以不说River，但是冠词the非加不可。

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1705005930 ● Constance Hope想是比Douglas更有名的女伶，leading man：男主角。

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1705005932 ● through him：因为爱舞台上的罗密欧，也连带地爱上了台下的男同学。虽然这两个人绝不相像：天下人之间个性的不同，无有过于他们两个人者。一个是热情奔放的罗密欧，至于另外一个，我们前面已经有了一点认识，他同他的儿子一样，是缺乏想象力的。

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1705005934 She loved her husband and had always loved him, but somehow married love had never quite come up to what she had seen and felt that afternoon across the footlights. What puzzled her was the question that baffled her to this day: What was the nature of that youthful ardor, what did love of that kind really consist of, what was it? Illusion, perhaps; poetry and Shakespeare and the actor’s art. But could make-believe—make-believe and nothing more—cause her to experience love, really experience it, so powerfully that it still held after twenty years of a marriage which, at its worst, had never been unhappy? No, she could not believe it had been illusion merely. It was something in the nature of Gavin Douglas, a special ardor he possessed that other men did not, a mysterious and ineffable quality in the artist. What she and Smith had together had lasted and would always last; it was durable and sound. Yet the other was durable, too; how else could she respond to, and even feel again, at this very moment, that powerful emotion that Romeo had given her from the stage?—pure, heart-piercing, like the poetry he spoke…

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1705005936 ● 这一段分析夫妻之爱和浪漫的爱之间的不同。但这不是说理文章（小说中最好不要插入说理文章），这里仍旧是在描写女主角的心理，她觉得爱情有两种，夫妻间的恩爱似乎还不能满足她心里的要求。

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