The audience sat quietly while he makes his way across the stage to his chair and begins his play. But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. We thought that he would have to stop the concert. But he didn't. Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again.

　　Of course, anyone knows that it is impossible to play a pleasant work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, but that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that.

　　When he finished, there was a breathtaking silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered.There was an extraordinary outburst of applause from every corner of the auditorium.

　　He smiled, wiped the sweat from his brow and then he said—not proudly, but in a quiet, holy attitude—“You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”

　　This powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the meaning of life—not just for artists but for all of us.

　　So, perhaps our task in this fast­changing, puzzling world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

　　【语篇大意】　伊扎克·帕尔曼一生都在做着用四弦的小提琴演奏音乐的准备，然而，突然间，就在音乐会上，他发现他只剩下三根琴弦，于是他用三根琴弦演奏。那一晚他用三根琴弦演奏的音乐比他以往用四根琴弦演奏的音乐更美妙，更神圣，更难忘。

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