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● the previous scene：第三幕第一场，即罗密欧击毙Tybalt的那一场。那场戏中没有朱丽叶的戏。
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● off-stage：这是个形容词（这里应该是形容主语I）；解作“在后台”。
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● wings：舞台的侧面（此字用复数形式）。against all the rules：翻遍后台管理规则，没有一条是容许演员在那种地方抽烟的。可是这位演员与众不同：她是Biddy，她可以率性行事。unto就是to，这是个古字。（类似的例子：until就是till，但till和until是一样适用的。）a law unto oneself是成语，解作“不可以常理来规定”。例如：A child is often a law unto itself. 小孩常有小孩自己的办法。
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● cue：上一场的最后几句话（朱丽叶听见了，就预备出场。此字也可解作同一场另一演员一段对白的最后几个字，演员听见了，就预备接口说话。）
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● Nurse：朱丽叶的乳娘是戏里一个重要角色。
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● kept on hoping：这句话意义不大清楚，但看后面两句，便知她是希望这场戏早点结束，回去抽那枝香烟！
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● to light a new one：重新点一枝香烟。原来那一枝已经烧完了。
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● so slow with her lines：乳娘背台词（lines）背得太慢，害得朱丽叶糟塌一枝香烟。
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Poor Alice Harvey—her head was swimming. She didn’t believe, almost didn’t dare listen; and certainly didn’t dare to glance at her husband by now, who was probably grinning at her with his own particular brand of fiendish delight. “But if Constance Hope,” she faltered, “wasn’t affected by the scene, wasn’t deeply moved inside, then why…how…why was I moved?”
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● her head was swimming：眩晕。
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● dare listen二字之间，原文没有to，这种用法很奇怪。照普通用法，用dared not listen时不用to，用didn’t dare后面就得用to。本段接着就是didn’t dare to glance，用to是不错的。
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● 她一向所崇拜的演员，原来把演戏看得如此随便，她怕她丈夫在窃笑。grinning：露齿而笑。brand：种类。她丈夫有一种特别的“恶毒的取笑”，所谓“恶毒”者（fiendish：魔鬼的），就是看见别人窘迫了，他就引以为乐。
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● faltered：吞吞吐吐地说。
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“My dear Mrs. Harvey,” he said, with his gentlest, his most intimate smile. “If Biddy had been moved herself—carried away by the emotion of the scene, swept off her feet, whatever you want to call it—you wouldn’t have been moved at all. You’d have sat there cold and impassive, resisting it with your whole being, irritated, in fact, by the spectacle of a woman making a holy show of herself.”
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● gentlest：最温柔的。most intimate：最亲切的。
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● If Biddy…herself中的herself用以加强主语Biddy。moved是“感动”，说话的人怕这个字意义不够清楚，换了两种说法：“假定她被戏里的情感所支配了，假定她演得忘其所以了……。”swept off one’s feet：（成语）感动得忘其所以，兴奋过度。
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● whatever you want to call it：不论你用moved也好，用别种说法也好。假如演员自己大受感动，观众就不受感动了。
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● impassive：不感痛痒，无动于衷（形容词，形容主语You）。
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● resisting it中的it即上一句whatever you want to call it中的it——指Biddy真动了情感去做戏。with your whole being：用你全力来反抗，你就要看不下去了。being：要素，本性，“存在”。your whole being：精神身体统统算进去。
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● irritated：仍是形容主语You。“你看见了要生气的”此字连后面的by。in fact是插进去补充说明的。spectacle：奇观，惨相，“好戏”。making a…show of herself：炫耀，表现自己。holy原义是“神圣”，这里是反语。a holy show该是“出丑，出洋相”。一个女人当着大庭广众，真正地大哭大笑起来，别人是忍受不了的。
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Shortly after ten, Gavin Douglas rose to leave.
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He was at the open door leading to the hall and the stairs, his reversible coat over his arm. He turned back momentarily, then, and Alice Harvey was delighted to see that he was about to make an exit, so to speak. He took her outstretched hand in both of his and gave her a long, searching, and very complimentary look. She waited, pleased.
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“Mrs. Harvey,” he said, his voice dropping a full octave lower and thrilling her through and through, “all summer long I’ve wondered where Rafe got those eyes. Now I know….”
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● open door：公寓的大门，不是房间的门，所以这里说是“通到门堂（hall）和楼梯的那扇门”。over his arm：挽在臂上。
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● then：那时候他本来已经预备跨步外出，现在忽然回转身来。to make an exit：（演员）下场。下场的时候演员常常要念两句“下场诗”。现在当然不在舞台上，但是在女主人心目中，他现在的姿势，可以说（so to speak）是在准备下场，正要说什么精彩的话，或者做什么精彩的表情。
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