美國(guó)語文第六冊(cè) 第255期:印第安耍把戲者(2)

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然而，對(duì)表演者來說，靈巧算不了什么。如果它只是呆板的騙術(shù)的話，一點(diǎn)價(jià)值也沒有，

but to watch and laugh at the astonishment of the spectators.

只是在觀看者的驚訝中博得一笑而已。

A single error of a hair's breadth, of the smallest conceivable portion of time, would be fatal;

一個(gè)極其細(xì)微的失誤，哪怕是時(shí)間上最不經(jīng)意的錯(cuò)位，都是致命的;

the precision of the movements must be like a mathematical truth; their rapidity is like lightning;

動(dòng)作的精確必須像數(shù)學(xué)公理一樣，如閃電般快捷;

To catch four balls in succession, in less than a second of time, and deliver them back so as to return with seeming consciousness to the hand again;

在一秒鐘之內(nèi)連續(xù)接住四個(gè)球，然后將它們?cè)賿佅蚩罩校ㄟ^表面上意識(shí)的連續(xù)性造成連續(xù)不斷的假象;

to make them revolve around him at certain intervals, like the planets in their spheres;

這種假象就是為了使球以一定的間歇圍著他轉(zhuǎn)，就像行星在軌道上轉(zhuǎn)一樣;

to make them chase each other like sparkles of fire, or shoot up like flowers or meteors;

使它們像火花一樣彼此追逐，或者像花和流星一樣綻放;

to throw them behind his back, and twine them round his neck like ribbons, or like serpents;

將球拋到身后，像緞帶或蛇一樣繞著脖子;

to do what appears an impossibility, and to do it with all the ease, the grace, the carelessness imaginable;

做似乎不可能的事情，一切都顯得那樣從容、優(yōu)雅，淡定得令人難以想象;

to laugh at, to play with the glittering mockeries, to follow them with his eye as if he could fascinate them with its lambent fire,

嬉笑著，玩著表面令人炫目實(shí)則無甚價(jià)值的把戲，讓人們眼睛圍著他轉(zhuǎn)，目不暇接，仿佛他能用閃爍的火光令他們著迷似的，

or as if he had only to see that they kept time with the music on the stage,

抑或仿佛只有他自己能發(fā)現(xiàn)他們?cè)谖枧_(tái)上隨著音樂的節(jié)拍亦醉亦癡，

there is something in all this which he who does not admire may be quite sure he never really admired anything in the whole course of his life.

所有這些都有一個(gè)要素，不會(huì)對(duì)這一切表示贊賞的他也許相當(dāng)確定的是，在他的整個(gè)生涯里他從未真正對(duì)什么表示過贊賞。