美国小学英语教材6:第222课 广播中的音乐大师(2)

Walter continued his piano lessons in New York City.

沃特尔继续在纽约的钢琴课程。

During his leisure moments he rambled¹ with his brother and sisters through Central Park or made toys with the tools which his father had provided to give extra training to his busy fingers.

闲暇时光，他会和哥哥姐姐去中央公园漫步，或是用工具制作玩具，这些工具是他父亲给他额外训练手指的。

Indeed, the boy forgot the disgrace² of his first orchestra³ appearance in the building of a doll's theater.

确实，沃特尔在小剧场中忘记了第一次在管弦乐队的丢脸表现。

This he furnished completely with a wonderful stage, brilliantly lighted, and a marvelous curtain that went easily up or down.

这个剧场拥有完美的舞台，闪亮的灯光，很容易上下的华丽窗帘。

The young musician then presented in his little theater a new opera by Wagner,

这名年轻的音乐家站在小剧场中表演瓦格纳尔的新歌剧，

his audience being all the members of his family and a few of their friends. A chum helped to pull the strings⁴ that moved the toy actors;

他的观众都是他的家人，和少数他的朋友，一位朋友帮忙拉动玩具演员的绳索；

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but Walter himself played the music which told the story that was being acted out upon the tiny stage. Dr. Damrosch was quite proud of Walter's production of the opera,

沃特尔亲自演奏，整个故事在这个小舞台上展现，达姆罗施博士对沃特尔的表演感到很骄傲，

which had recently been heard in Germany for the first time. Now Walter's father began to train his son to be an orchestra conductor.

这部歌剧近期首次在德国演出，如今沃特尔的父亲开始将儿子培养成管弦乐指挥家。

He gave him a place back among the violins, for he felt that Walter should have training as a member of the orchestra. As time went on,

他在小提琴里给沃特尔找了位置，他认为应该将他训练成管弦乐成员，随着时间的推移，

young Damrosch learned more and more about music. For the great Musical Festival of 1881, which his father spent nearly a year in preparing,

年轻的达姆罗施学习了更多音乐知识，在1881年的盛大音乐节上，他父亲用了几乎一年来准备，

Walter was allowed to drill groups of singers, and to accompany the huge chorus⁵ and orchestra upon the organ. The Festival was a success,

沃特尔被允许训练一批歌手，伴随着合唱团和管弦乐队，音乐节获得成功。

and when it was over, Damrosch was elected by a musical society to conduct its orchestra. Though he was only eighteen years old,

结束时，达姆罗施被一个音乐社会选中来指挥管弦乐队，尽管他只有18岁，

the young man had already won a place for himself in the musical world.

这个年轻人已经在音乐世界占有一席之地。

LEADER OF A MUSICAL FAMILY

音乐之家的领袖

To this young conductor, all music had a message; and he tried to draw out this message from his players and their instruments as he faced them with his baton⁶.

对于这名年轻的指挥家，所有音乐都在传达讯息，当他拿着指挥棒面对他们时，他试图从演奏者和乐器身上提取信息。

He began to think of his orchestra as a musical family.

他开始将他的管弦乐队看作是一个音乐之家。

1 rambled   

（无目的地）漫游( ramble的过去式和过去分词 )； （喻）漫谈； 扯淡； 长篇大论

参考例句：

• We rambled through the woods. 我们漫步走过树林。
• She rambled on at great length but she didn't get to the heart of the matter. 她夹七夹八地说了许多话也没说到点子上。

2 disgrace   

n.耻辱，不光彩，丢脸的人（或事）；vt.使丢脸

参考例句：

• You will bring disgrace on yourself by doing this.你这样做会给自己带来耻辱。
• He is a disgrace to our school.他是我们学校的耻辱。

3 orchestra   

n.管弦乐队；vt.命令，定购

参考例句：

• He plays the violin in an orchestra.他在管弦乐队中演奏小提琴。
• I was tempted to stay and hear this superb orchestra rehearse.我真想留下来听这支高超的管弦乐队排练。

4 strings   

n.弦

参考例句：

• He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上，随意地拨着吉他的弦。
• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。

5 chorus   

n.合唱，合唱队，齐声

参考例句：

• Never before have I heard this song sung in chorus.我从来没有听过这首歌的合唱。
• The children repeated the words after her in chorus.孩子们跟她齐声朗读单词。

6 baton   

n.乐队用指挥杖

参考例句：

• With the baton the conductor was beating time.乐队指挥用指挥棒打拍子。
• The conductor waved his baton,and the band started up.指挥挥动指挥棒，乐队开始演奏起来。