B1 Unit 3 Text 2 英汉对照资料讲解

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英汉对照

Text One

The Best Playwright in England

by Jennifer Bassett

1． The plague came and in September 1592 the City Council closed the theatres in London. They didn't open again until June 1594.

2． After the plague years, we were busy all the time. There were new companies of players and Will now belonged to the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The Lord Chamberlain was a very important man, close to the Queen, and we often put on plays for the Queen's court, and in the houses of the great lords of England. We had some very good actors. There was Will, and Richard Burbage, of course, and John Heminges. And there was Augustine Phillips, Henry Condell, and Thomas Pope. There were other actors, too, but those six were the real company. They worked together for more than twenty years.

3． Will was special—because he wrote the plays. And what plays they were! He never wrote the same play twice, like some writers. He was always trying something new, something different. And he wrote fast, too.

4． John Heminges could never understand that. "How can you write so fast, Will?" he asked Will. "And you never make a mistake or change a word."

5． Will didn't really understand it 课文一

英国最好的剧作家

詹尼弗·芭斯特

1.黑死病爆发后，市议会于1592年9月关闭了伦敦的剧场。直到1594年6月，剧场才重新开放。

2.黑死病过后的几年里，我们每天都在忙。这时出现了许多新的剧团。威尔现在在张伯伦伯爵剧团干活儿。张伯伦伯爵是个大人物，与女王的关系很密切。因此，我们常在王宫或是那些达官贵人的府上演出。我们有一些非常出色的演员。这其中有威尔，当然也有理查德·勃贝奇，还有约翰·海明；有奥古斯丁·菲利普，亨利·康德尔，和托马斯·波普。还有其他一些演员，但这六个人是剧团的核心。他们合作长达20余年。

3.威尔是其中特殊的一员——演出同时，他还创作剧本。他的剧本极其出色。他从不象有些作家那样，重复同一个剧本。他总是尝试新的、与众不同的东西。他写得还相当快。

4.约翰·海明怎么也弄不懂这一点。“威尔，你怎么能写得这么快？”他问威尔，“而且你从来不出错，也不修改一个字。”

5.事实上，威尔自己也不明白。“它都在我的脑袋里，”他说：“通常我先考虑一会儿。然后，它就泉涌而出，到了纸上。”

himself. "It's all in my head," he said. "I think

about it, and then it just comes out on paper."

6． He wrote a play about love in 1595. Young love. It was Romeo and Juliet. It was a very sad play, because the young lovers die at the end. But the playgoers loved it. They wanted to see it again and again.

7． Will played the part of old Capulet, Juliet's father. One of the boy actors played the part of Juliet. There were no women actors, so boys played all the women's parts. Of course, Will never put real love-making on stage. He did it all with words —clever, beautiful words, and you forgot that the women and girls were really boys in dresses. Some of the boy actors were very good, and went on to play men's parts when they were older.

8． The year 1596 began well, but that summer the weather was really bad. Cold. Wet. It never stopped raining, and the plague began to come back into London.

9． One wet August evening I came to Will's room. He was just sitting there...not doing anything, just sitting.

10． "What's happened?" I asked. "What is it?"

11． He looked at me. "Hamnet ..." he began. "Hamnet was ill last week, and...and he died, yesterday. He was only eleven, Toby, and he's dead. My boy. My only son. He's dead, Toby. Dead." He put his face in his 6.1595年，他写了一部爱情剧。年轻人的爱情。这就是《罗密欧和朱丽叶》。这是一部令人悲伤的剧，因为那对年轻的恋人最后死掉了。但戏迷们喜欢它，而且百看不厌。

7.威尔扮演老凯普莱特，朱丽叶的父亲。一个童伶扮演朱丽叶。当时没有女演员，因此要由男孩子扮演所有女人的角色。当然，威尔从没把真正的做爱场面放到舞台上。他用语言来加以表现——听着那巧妙、优美的语言，你会忘记那些妇人和女孩子事实上都是化了装的男孩。有一些童伶演得非常好。他们长大后，就接着扮演男子的角色。

8.1596年开头不错，可那年夏天天气非常糟糕，又冷又湿。雨从来没停过。黑死病又开始在伦敦复发了。

9. 8月一个潮湿的晚上，我来到威尔的房间。他就坐在那儿……什么事也不做，就那样坐着。

10.“怎么啦？”我问道：“出了什么事？”

11.他看着我。“哈姆尼特……”他开口说：“哈姆尼特上周得了病，昨天就……就死了。托比，他才十一岁，可就死了。我的孩子，我唯一的儿子。他死了，托比，他死了。”他捂住了脸。

12.我们默默地坐在一起。我知道威尔爱他

hands.

12． We sat together, silently. I knew that Will loved that boy of his—red-haired, bright as a new penny, full of life. Just like his father.

13． Richard Burbage said once that Will's writing changed after Hamnet's death. Will still laughed at people in his plays, but he also felt sorry for them—sorry for all the world, good and bad, rich and poor, young and old. And his people were real. No one was all good, or all bad.

14． There was a man called Shylock in his play The Merchant of Venice. This Shylock was a money-lender and a cruel man—everyone hated him. But in the end, when Shylock lost everything, you had to feel sorry for him. He was just a sad old man.

15． Perhaps Richard was right. And if anyone understood Will, it was Richard Burbage.

16． Every year we took more and more plays to court at Christmas. In 1598 one of Will's plays was Henry IV. A lot of the play was about the King's son and his friend, Sir John Falstaff. Sir John was old, fat, lazy, drank too much, talked too much, laughed too much. But you had to love him. He was a great favorite with the London playgoers, and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time.

17． After the play, the Queen wanted 那个孩子——红头发、聪明活泼、充满朝气。和他父亲一模一样。

13.理查德·勃贝奇曾说过，在哈姆尼特死后，威尔的写作发生了变化。在剧本里，威尔还是要嘲弄人，但他也同情他们——同情整个世界，好的，坏的，富的，穷的，年轻的，年老的。他的人物很真实，没有人十全十美，也没有人十恶不赦。

14.在他的剧本《威尼斯商人》中，有一个人叫夏洛克。这个夏洛克是个放贷者，一个冷酷的人，所以人人都恨他。但到了最后，当夏洛克失去一切时，你又没法不同情他。他不过是一个不幸的老人。

15. 或许理查德说对了。如果说，还是有人理解威尔的，那么这个人就是理查德·勃比奇。

16. 每年圣诞，我们都给宫廷带去更多的戏剧。威尔1598年的创作中，有一个剧本叫《亨利六世》。剧中许多是关于王子以及王子的朋友约翰·福斯塔夫的。约翰爵士年老、体胖、懒惰、酗酒、多话、爱笑。但你又没法不喜欢他。他在伦敦那些戏迷中深受欢迎。而且当时流传着许多关于福斯塔夫的笑话。

17.看完这出剧，女王有话要对威尔说。

18. 在我们的注视下，威尔向女王的坐椅走去。女王是一位老妇人，戴着红色的假发，牙齿也发黑。但她仍然是一位伟大的女王。而且，要是女王不高兴……