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● After all：说来说去，人总得要做事（我就挑选了戏剧）。
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● Pueblo：科罗拉多州的城市名。
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● road company：走江湖跑码头的戏班。Way Down East：美国本世纪初很有名的戏，为Lottie Blair Parker（1858—1937）所作。该戏拍成无声电影后在中国映出，片名为《赖婚》。
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● there was no holding me：there is的后面跟一个动名词，解作“从此以后，没有办法管得住我了”。我就想投身戏剧界了。
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● steer：小公牛。kicked：举脚乱踢；发脾气。Green：嫩，没有经验。
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“You seemed hardly sixteen when my husband and I saw you in Romeo and Juliet.”
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“Oh, did you see that? Imagine!”
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“I’ve never forgotten it, Mr. Douglas.”
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“Well, I was twice sixteen during my Romeo period,” he said, and smiled charmingly. “Do you know how old I am now? Fifty-three, no less.”
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…Twice sixteen, she was thinking. That youth—that slim young lover? A Romeo of thirty-two? Incredible it seemed; it was possible, perhaps, but not probable.
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She got up. “I—think it’s time for dinner,” she said. “Mr. Douglas, won’t you bring your drink in to the table?”
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● Imagine：请想想看！怪不怪？
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● during my Romeo period：我演罗密欧那个时期。
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● That youth—that slim young lover：这是舞台上所看见的罗密欧，演员本人则是已经三十二岁了。
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● Incredible：令人难信。not probable：不近情理。
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● bring your drink in：把酒一块儿带来。
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“So you saw our Romeo and Juliet,” he said. “Fancy that. You must have been kids.”
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“We weren’t. We were both in college at the time.”
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‘About Rafe’s age. I should imagine,” he said. “Wouldn’t you call him a kid?”
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● Fancy that：同上文的Imagine一样，是一种自言自语。
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● must have been：“从现在的立场，猜度过去的事情”所用的动词形式。
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● kids：小孩子。
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● I should imagine和Wouldn’t you两个虚拟式动词，都是比较客气而不武断的说法。
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● call him a kid：大学生还算是小孩子，其人显然有点倚老卖老。
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“…We played Romeo and Juliet thirty consecutive weeks at the Morosco,” he was saying, “and then took it on the road for another whole season. You can imagine the bang it gave me when we played Pueblo, Colorado. After the American tour, there was a three months’ run at the Haymarket in London. I’m telling you, I was never so sick of anything in my life as I was of Romeo when we finally quit. Bored stiff.”
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