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样起来。我现在的技术还没有登峰造极,登上站台后不免总有些怯场。这火车站的戏可最难演,这点你一定也有切身体会。”“可是,”我有些生气了,“我没有演戏,我可是在真心实意地感觉——”“我也是的,伙计,”勒·罗斯又说,“没有真情实感是演不了戏的。那人叫什么来着,那个法国人——狄德罗,对了——他说过可以;可他都懂得些什么?你没看见火车开时我眼睛里涌出的泪水吗?告诉你吧,我确确实实受了感动,我的眼泪不是硬挤出来的。我敢说刚才你也一样,只不过你做不到用眼泪来证明你的感动罢了。你不会表达你的感情,也就是说,你演不了戏。退一步说,”他说得稍微委婉些,“至少你在火车站演不了戏。”“那请赐教!”我放开了嗓门请求。他定定地看着我,斟酌片刻,终于说“好”,答应了下来,“实际上送行的旺季也快过去了。我可以给你上几堂课。目前我的门下子弟还真不少;不过还是这样吧,”说着,他查了查他那漂亮的记事簿,“定为每周四和每周五,一次一小时。”

他开出的学费,坦白说,实在是不低的。但既然是学本领,我也就不会嫌贵。

就如作者所说,我们大家都有同感:送行是世界上最难做好的事情之一。作者以自己的亲身体验为我们讲述了他的一次送行的经历,笔调清新,通俗易懂。

Seeing People Off

Max Beerbohm

I am not good at it。 To do it well seems to me one of the most difficult things in the world; and probably seems so to you; too。

To see a friend off from Waterloo to Vauxhall were easy enough。 But we are never called on to perform that small feat。 It is only when a friend is going on a languish journey; and will be absent for a languish time; that we turn up at the railway station。 The dearer the friend and the longer the journey; and the longer the likely absence; the earlier do we turn up; and the more lamentably1 do we fail。 Our failure is in exact ratio to the seriousness of the occasion; and to the depth of our feeling。

In a room; or even on a doorstep; we can make the farewell quite worthily。 We can express in our faces the genuine sorrow we feel。 Nor do words fail us。 There is no awkwardness; no restraint; on either side。 The thread of our intimacy2 has not been snapped。 The leave

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