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[00:02.65]22 熟记台词

[00:05.30]Listen to the tape then answer the question below

[00:11.53]听录音,然后回答以下问题.

[00:17.76]Which actor read the letter in the end,

[00:20.19]哪个演员最后读了信,

[00:22.62]the aristocrat or the gaoler?

[00:27.76]贵族还是监狱看守?

[00:32.89]Some plays are so successfulthat they run for years on end.

[00:35.81]有些剧目十分成功以致连续上演好几年.

[00:38.74]In many ways,this is unfortunate for the poor actors

[00:41.52]这样一来,可怜的演员们可倒霉了,

[00:44.30]who are required to go on repeating the same lines night after night

[00:47.73]因为他们需要一夜连一夜地重复同样台词

[00:51.15]One would expect them to know their parts by heart

[00:53.49]人们以为这些演员一定把台词背得烂熟

[00:55.82]and never have cause to falter.

[00:57.74]绝不会临场结巴的.

[00:59.66]Yet this is not always the case.

[01:01.84]但情况却并不总是这样,

[01:04.03]A famous actor in a highly successful play

[01:06.40]有一位名演员曾在一出极为成功的剧目中

[01:08.78]was once cast in the role of an aristocrat

[01:11.35]扮演一个贵族角色,

[01:13.93]who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years.