欧美文化博览 柴可夫斯基 生命中的女性(1)

In the summer of 1864, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, aged¹ 24 and a second year student at St.Petersburg Conservatoire,

在1864年的夏天, 24岁的彼得·伊里奇·柴科夫斯基还是圣彼得堡音乐学院的一位二年级学生,

wrote his first full-scale orchestral work and called it, the Storm.

就是这位学生创作了他称之为风暴的第一首全管弦乐作品。

Tchaikovsky had based the piece on a new play by Russia's leading dramatist,

柴可夫斯基受到俄罗斯著名的剧作家的新剧影响,

Alexander Ostrovsky, which had touched him deeply and inspired him to produce quite suddenly a work that stood head and shoulders above anything that he had written before.

这位剧作家就是亚历山大·奥斯特洛夫斯基,这感动了他并激励他去创作这部作品,这让他突然感到自己站在任何他之前创作作品的肩膀上。

It marked the beginning of his career as a composer and it established patterns of composition and an artistic² identification³ with suffering women that would remain with him for the rest of his days.

这标志着他作为一位作曲家开始自己的职业生涯并且建立一种艺术模式的构成，承受痛苦的女性将陪伴他的余生。

1 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

2 artistic   

adj.艺术(家)的，美术(家)的；善于艺术创作的

参考例句：

• The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
• These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。

3 identification   

n.视为同一，证明同一，确认

参考例句：

• He's made a formal identification of the body.他正式确认了死者身份。
• We should have identification card on the person when we go out.我们外出时应随身携带身份证。