《疯狂英语》精选辑: 音乐

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.

注释:
1) soothe                           v. 使平静，安抚
2) rousing                          a. 激励人的，振奋的
3) rendering                      n. 演奏，表演
4) septet                            n. 七重奏或七重唱的乐曲
5) dainty                            a. 优美的，雅致的
6) monotony                      n. 单调 
7) dying                             a. 行将完结的
8) interstice                       n. 间隙，空隙
9) spontaneous                 a. 自生的，自发的
10) masterly                      ad. 熟练地，巧妙地
11) conceit                        n. 狂想，怪念
12) copious                       a. 大量的，丰富的