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Lesson 22 By heart 熟记台词
1、Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end, In many ways, this is unfortunate for the poor actors (who are required to go on repeating the same lines night after night.定语从句)
有些剧目十分成功,以致连续上演好几年。这样一来,可怜的演员们可倒霉了。因为他们需要一夜连着一夜地重复同样的台词。
· play (n.) 话剧
musical (n.) 音乐剧
opera (n.) 歌剧
· so…that… 如此…以致于(结果状语从句)
· successful (adj.) 成功的
successfully (adv.) 成功地
success (n.) 成功
succeed (v.) 成功
· run (v.) 经营
· on end = continuously (adv.) 连续不断地
eg. 到现在为止已经连续不停地下了好几天雨了。
Until now, it has been raining for several days on end.
· unfortunate (adj.) = unlucky (adj.) 不幸的
· require
(1) (v.) 需要 = need (主动语态)
eg. 假如你需要进一步的信息,请打这个电话。
If you require to get further information, please telephone this number.
(2) be required 被要求(强迫)(被动语态) = demand
eg. 我们被要求暑假读完5本书。
We were required to read 5 books in summer holiday.
· go on doing = continue doing 继续做某事
2、One would expect them to know their parts by heart and never have cause to falter. Yet this is not always the case.
人们以为,这些演员一定会把台词背得烂熟,绝不会临场结巴的,但情况却并不总是这样。
· by + email/telephone/交通工具 : 用…方式
· know/learn sth. by heart 背诵(用心的方式)
eg. 我们班同学被要求背这篇课文。
My classmates are required to learn this text by heart.
3、A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat (who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years.定语从句)
有一位名演员曾在一出极为成功的剧目中扮演一个贵族角色,这个贵族已在巴士底狱被关押了20年。
· high (adj./adv.) 高的/地
highly(adv.) 高度地(抽象)
· an aristocrat = a noble man 贵族
· the aristocracy 贵族阶层
the middle class 中产阶层
the working class 工人阶级,劳动阶层
the under class 底层阶级
· imprison (v.) 关押 = put sb. in prison
imprisonment(n.) 关押 ( life imprisonment 终生监禁)
prison (n.) 监狱
prisoner (n.) 囚犯
4、In the last act, a gaoler would always come on to the stage with a letter ( which he would hand to the prisoner.定语从句 )
在最后一幕中,狱卒手持一封信上场,然后将信交给狱中那位贵族。
· gaoler (n.) 狱警 = jaoler
5、Even though the noble was expected to read