Little Women — Page 10

艾米跟着上场，但她把双手僵硬地伸在身前，像机器人一样一顿一顿地走着，她那声"哎哟！"与其说是在表现恐惧和痛苦，倒更像是有人把针扎进了她身体里。

Amy followed, but she poked her hands out stiffly before her, and jerked herself along as if she went by machinery, and her "Ow!" was more suggestive of pins being run into her than of fear and anguish.

乔绝望地叹了口气，梅格忍不住放声大笑，而贝思则津津有味地看着这场闹剧，把炉子上的面包都烤糊了。

Jo gave a despairing groan, and Meg laughed outright, while Beth let her bread burn as she watched the fun with interest.

"没办法了！到时候尽力而为吧，如果观众笑场，别来怪我。来吧，梅格。"

"It's no use! Do the best you can when the time comes, and if the audience laughs, don't blame me. Come on, Meg."

接着，排练进行得顺顺当当，唐·佩德罗慷慨激昂地向全世界宣战，足足说了两页台词，中间一次都没停顿。

Then things went smoothly, for Don Pedro defied the world in a speech of two pages without a single break.

女巫哈格尔在她那满是蟾蜍的沸腾大锅上吟唱着骇人的咒语，效果阴森诡异。

Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.

罗德里戈奋力挣断了身上的锁链，而雨果则在悔恨与砒霜的双重折磨下痛苦死去，嘴里还狂喊着："哈！哈！"

Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, "Ha! Ha!"

"这是我们排得最好的一次，"梅格说道，此时那个扮演反派的人已经从死亡中"复活"，坐起身来揉着自己的胳膊肘。

"It's the best we've had yet," said Meg, as the dead villain sat up and rubbed his elbows.

"乔，我真不明白你怎么能写出又能演出这么精彩的东西。你简直就是个真正的莎士比亚！"贝思惊叹道，她打心底里相信自己的姐妹们在任何事情上都拥有非凡的天赋。

"I don't see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo. You're a regular Shakespeare!" exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with wonderful genius in all things.

"还差得远呢，"乔谦虚地回答，"我确实觉得《女巫的诅咒：歌剧悲剧》还不错，但我真想试试《麦克白》，要是我们有班柯出场用的活板门就好了。我一直想演行刺那一幕。'我眼前看见的是一把匕首吗？'

"Not quite," replied Jo modestly. "I do think The Witches Curse, an Operatic Tragedy is rather a nice thing, but I'd like to try Macbeth, if we only had a trapdoor for Banquo. I always wanted to do the killing part. 'Is that a dagger that I see before me?