英語專業(yè)晨讀美文人生篇：縱情起舞(英音)

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:03.83]Dancing All the Dances As Long As I Can [00:08.86]I believe in dancing. [00:12.52]I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, [00:17.11]the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. So I dance daily. [00:23.02]The seldom-used dining room of my house is now an often-used ballroom [00:27.72]—an open space with a hardwood floor, stereo, and a disco ball. [00:32.75]The CD-changer has six discs at the ready: [00:35.81]waltz, swing, country, rock-and-roll, salsa, and tango. [00:41.17]Each morning when I walk through the house on the way to make coffee, [00:44.89]I turn on the music, hit the "shuffle" button, and it's Dance Time! [00:49.70]I dance alone to whatever is playing. [00:52.44]It's a form of existential aerobics, a moving meditation. [00:56.81]Tango is a recent enthusiasm. It's a complex and difficult dance, [01:01.62]so I'm up to three lessons a week, three nights out dancing, [01:05.34]and I'm off to Buenos Aires for three months of immersion in tango culture. [01:09.83]The first time I went tango dancing I was too intimidated to get out on the floor. [01:14.86]I remembered another time I had stayed on the sidelines, [01:18.50]when the dancing began after a village wedding on the Greek island of Crete. [01:22.44]The fancy footwork confused me. [01:24.86]"Don't make a fool of yourself," I thought. "Just watch." [01:29.02]Reading my mind, an older woman dropped out of the dance, [01:32.74]sat down beside me, and said, [01:34.93]"If you join the dancing, you will feel foolish. [01:37.66]If you do not, you will also feel foolish. So, why not dance?" [01:42.58]And, she said she had a secret for me. [01:45.43]She whispered, "If you do not dance, we will know you are a fool. [01:49.80]But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying." [01:53.19]Recalling her wise words, I took up the challenge of tango. [01:57.89]A friend asked me if my tango-mania wasn't a little ambitious. [02:02.05]"Tango? At your age? You must be out of your mind!" [02:06.10]On the contrary: It's a deeply pondered decision. [02:09.93]My passion for tango disguises a fearfulness. [02:13.64]I fear the shrinking of life that goes with aging. [02:17.03]I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. [02:21.52]I fear the dying that goes on inside you [02:24.80]when you leave the game of life to wait in the final checkout line. [02:28.74]I seek the sharp, scary pleasure that comes from beginning something new— [02:33.87]that calls on all my resources and challenges my mind, [02:37.60]my body, and my spirit, all at once. [02:40.88]My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, [02:44.70]and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night [02:49.84]and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me. [02:53.23]So, when people say, "Tango? At your age? Have lost your mind?" [02:58.48]I answer, "No, and I don't intend to."

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