《瘋狂英語(yǔ)》精選輯: 音樂(lè)

Music

Never did music more sink into and 1)soothe and fill me --never so prove its soul--2)rousing power, its impossibility of statement. Especially in the 3)rendering of one of Beethoven’s master 4)septets... was I carried away, seeing, absorbing many wonders. 5)Dainty abandon, sometimes as if Nature laughing on a hillside in the sunshine; serious and firm 6)monotonies, as of winds; a horn sounding through the tangle of the forest, and the 7)dying echoes; soothing floating of waves, but presently rising in surges, angrily lashing, muttering, heavy; piercing peals of laughter, for 8)interstices; now and then weird, as Nature herself is in certain moods --but mainly 9)spontaneous, easy, careless --often the sentiment of the postures of naked children playing or sleeping. It did me good even to watch the violinists drawing their bows so 10)masterly --every motion a study. I allowed myself, as I sometimes do, to wander out of myself. The11)conceit came to me of a 12)copious grove of singing birds, and in their midst a simple harmonic duo, two human souls, steadily asserting their own pensiveness, joyousness.

注釋:
1) soothe                           v. 使平靜，安撫
2) rousing                          a. 激勵(lì)人的，振奮的
3) rendering                      n. 演奏，表演
4) septet                            n. 七重奏或七重唱的樂(lè)曲
5) dainty                            a. 優(yōu)美的，雅致的
6) monotony                      n. 單調(diào) 
7) dying                             a. 行將完結(jié)的
8) interstice                       n. 間隙，空隙
9) spontaneous                 a. 自生的，自發(fā)的
10) masterly                      ad. 熟練地，巧妙地
11) conceit                        n. 狂想，怪念
12) copious                       a. 大量的，豐富的