Lesson 22 By heart

歌曲 Lesson 22 By heart
歌手 英语听力
专辑 新概念英语(第三册)

歌词

[00:01.080] --- lesson 22 By heart
[00:05.920] --- Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:11.600] --- Which actor read the letter in the end, the aristocrat or the gaoler?
[00:19.600] Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end.
[00:24.680] In many ways, this is unfortunate for the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same lines night after night.
[00:33.280] One would expect them to know their parts by heart and never have cause to falter.
[00:38.880] Yet this is not always the case.
[00:42.400] 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.
[00:53.640] In the last act, a gaoler would always come on to the stage with a letter which he would hand to the prisoner.
[01:00.480] Even though the noble was expected to read the letter at each performance,
[01:04.760] he always insisted that it should be written out in full.
[01:09.360] One night, the gaoler decided to play a joke on his colleague to find out if,
[01:15.200] after so many performances, he had managed to learn the contents of the letter by heart.
[01:21.280] The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed the aristocrat sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell.
[01:30.840] Just then, the gaoler appeared with the precious letter in his bands.
[01:36.400] He entered the cell and presented the letter to the aristocrat.
[01:40.680] But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full as usual.
[01:46.160] It was simply a blank sheet of paper.
[01:49.920] The gaoler looked on eagerly, anxious to see if his fellow actor had at last learnt his lines.
[01:57.040] The noble stared at the blank sheet of paper for a few seconds.
[02:01.200] Then, squinting his eyes, he said: 'The light is dim. Read the letter to me.'
[02:08.160] And he promptly handed the sheet of paper to the gaoler.
[02:11.920] Finding that he could not remember a word of the letter either,
[02:15.960] the gaoler replied: 'The light is indeed dim, sire. I must get my glasses.'
[02:22.800] With this, he hurried off the stage.
[02:25.600] Much to the aristocrat's amusement,
[02:28.360] the gaoler returned a few moments later with a pair of glasses and the usual copy of the letter which he proceeded to read to the prisoner.

歌词大意

[00:01.080] shú jì tái cí
[00:05.920] tīng lù yīn, rán hòu huí dá yǐ xià wèn tí.
[00:11.600]
[00:19.600] yǒu xiē jù mù shí fēn chéng gōng, yǐ zhì lián xù shàng yǎn hǎo jǐ nián.
[00:24.680] zhè yàng yī lái, kě lián de yǎn yuán men kě dǎo méi le. yīn wèi tā men xū yào yī yè lián zhe yī yè dì chóng fù tóng yàng de tái cí.
[00:33.280] rén men yǐ wéi, zhèi xiē yǎn yuán yí dìng huì bǎ tái cí bèi dé làn shú, jué bú huì lín chǎng jiē bā de,
[00:38.880] dàn qíng kuàng què bìng bù zǒng shì zhè yàng.
[00:42.400] yǒu yī wèi míng yǎn yuán céng zài yī chū jí wéi chéng gōng de jù mù zhōng bàn yǎn yí gè guì zú jué sè, zhè gè guì zú yǐ zài bā shì dǐ yù bèi guān yā le 20 nián.
[00:53.640] zài zuì hòu yī mù zhōng, yù zú shǒu chí yī fēng xìn shàng chǎng, rán hòu jiāng xìn jiāo gěi yù zhōng nà wèi guì zú.
[01:00.480] jǐn guǎn nà gè guì zú měi chǎng xì dōu dé niàn yī biàn nà fēng xìn.
[01:04.760] dàn tā hái shì jiān chí yāo qiú jiāng xìn de quán wén xiě zài xìn zhǐ shàng.
[01:09.360] yì tiān wǎn shàng, yù zú jué dìng yǔ tā de tóng shì kāi yí gè wán xiào,
[01:15.200] kàn kàn tā fǎn fù yǎn chū zhè me duō chǎng zhī hòu, shì fǒu yǐ jiāng xìn de nèi róng jì shú le.
[01:21.280] dà mù lā kāi, zuì hòu yī mù xì kāi yǎn, guì zú dú zì yī rén zuò zài tiě chuāng hòu yīn àn de láo fáng lǐ.
[01:30.840] zhè shí yù zú shàng chǎng, shǒu lǐ ná zhe nà fēng zhēn guì de xìn.
[01:36.400] yù zú zǒu jìn láo fáng, jiāng xìn jiāo gěi guì zú.
[01:40.680] dàn zhè huí yù zú gěi guì zú de xìn méi yǒu xiàng wǎng cháng nà yàng bǎ quán wén xiě quán,
[01:46.160] ér shì yī zhāng bái zhǐ.
[01:49.920] yù zú rè qiè dì guān chá zhe, jí yú xiǎng liǎo jiě tā de tóng shì shì fǒu jì shú le tái cí.
[01:57.040] guì zú dīng zhe zhǐ kàn le jǐ miǎo zhōng,
[02:01.200] rán hòu, yǎn zhū yī zhuǎn, shuō dào:" guāng xiàn tài àn, qǐng gěi wǒ dú yī xià zhè fēng xìn."
[02:08.160] shuō wán, tā yī xià zǐ bǎ xìn dì gěi yù zú.
[02:11.920] yù zú fā xiàn zì jǐ lián yí gè zì yě jì bu zhù,
[02:15.960] yú shì biàn shuō:" bì xià, zhè ér guāng xiàn dí què tài àn le, wǒ dé qù bǎ yǎn jìng ná lái."
[02:22.800] tā yī biān shuō zhe, yī biān cōng cōng xià tái.
[02:25.600] guì zú gǎn dào fēi cháng hǎo xiào de shì:
[02:28.360] yī huì ér gōng fū, yù zú chóng xīn dēng tái, ná lái yī fù yǎn jìng yǐ jí píng shí shǐ yòng de nà fēng xìn, rán hòu wèi nà qiú fàn niàn le qǐ lái.
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