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第一段
1 .Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor.
听一段教授和学生间的对话。
第二段
1 .OK, let's see, right. Modern stagings of a Shakespearian classic.
好吧，我们一起来谈谈吧！嗯，莎翁经典剧目的当代演出。
2 .Well, like I told you last week, I think that's a great topic for your paper.
嗯，和我上周讲的一样，我想这个题目作为论文题目对你来说很合适。
3 .So the title will be something like... um...
这样的话，论文题目应该是……嗯……
第三段
1 .I'm not really sure. Probably something like 20th century stagings of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
我也不知道论文题目叫什么合适，可能该叫“论20 世纪《仲夏夜之梦》的出演情况”。
第四段
1 .Yes, I like that.
嗯，我很喜欢这个名字
2 .Straight forward into the point.So how is the research going?
直接且中肯。嗯，研究做得如何了？
第五段
1 .Well, that's what I came to talk to you about.
嗯，我来这儿就是要跟您说说这个事情。
2 .I was wondering if you happen to have a copy of the Peter Brook production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in your video collection.
我在想您是否恰好收藏有一卷彼得•布鲁克导演的《仲夏夜之梦》的影碟吗？
3 .I've been looking for it everywhere, and I've have a really hard time tracking it down.
我已经到处找遍了，但一直都没有发现它的下落。
第六段
1 .That's because it doesn't exist.
那是因为这个版本的影带根本就不存在。
第七段
1 .You mean in your collection ?Or at all?
您是说您的藏品中没有？或者根本就没有？
第八段
1 .I mean at all.
我的意思是
2 .That particular production was never filmed or recorded.
这个影碟根本就没有。那个特殊版根本没有被录制下来。
第九段
1 .Oh, no, I had no idea. From what I read, that production like, it influenced every other production of the play that came after it, so I just assumed it'd been filmed or videotaped.
哦，不会吧！我不知道该怎么办了！我的阅读材料告诉我，那个版本的《仲夏夜之梦》影响到了其后所有的新版。所以我想当然地认为它被录下来了。
第十段
1 .Oh, it definitely was a landmark production and it's not like it ran for just a week.
哦，毫无疑问，那个版本确实是承前启后的经典。
2 .But, either was never filmed, or if it was, the film has been lost.
而且，它似乎不只出演了一周，但有可能它从来没有被录制过，或者录制的影碟丢失了。
3 .It's ironic, because there is even a film about the making of the production.
讽刺的是，还专门有一部影片，内容是这个版本是如何生产的
4 .But none of the production itself.
但是，这部演出本身却没有留下任何影片。
第十一段
1 .So now what will I do? If there's no video.
那现在我该怎么办呢？如果真的找不到录影带的话。
第十二段
1 .Well, think about it. This is the most important 20th century staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, right?
嗯，我想想吧！这个是20 世纪最重要的一版《仲夏夜之梦》，对吧？
第十三段
1 .But how can I write about Brook's interpretation of the play if I can't see his production?
但是如果我看不到布鲁克导演的版本的话，我该怎么写它的布鲁克对它的理解呢？
第十四段
1 .Just because there's no recording doesn't mean you can't figure out how it influenced other productions.
但找不到影响记录并不意味着你没法弄清它对其他版本的影响。
第十五段
1 .I guess there is enough materials around, but it'll be a challenge.
是的，我想手边的材料是够的，但即便如此，也是个大麻烦。
第十六段
1 .True, but think about it, you're writing about dramatic arts, the theater, that's the nature of theater, isn't it?
对。但仔细想想的话，你论文主要写的是戏剧艺术，剧场以及剧场的本质，是吧？
第十七段
1 .You mean because it's live, when the performance has finished...
您的意思是，因为演出是即时的，当表演落幕后……
第十八段
1 .That's it, unless it's filmed, it's gone.
正解！如果没有被录影的话，那它就消失了。
2 .But that doesn't mean we can't study it.
但是这并不意味着我们没法研究它。
3 .And of course some students in this class are writing about productions in the 19th century, there're no videos of those.
并且，班里肯定有些学生在研究19 世纪的戏剧，那些戏剧也不会有录影带。
4 .You know, one of the challenges for people who study theater is to find ways of talking about something that's really so transient, about something that, in a sense, doesn't exist.
想必你也知道，剧场研究者的一项挑战在于，他们必须要找出一种办法来描述一些转瞬即逝，一些从某些意义上说，根本不存在的东西。