竖琴

This happened a long time ago, a very long time ago, and people havedifferent ideas about what musical instrument the woman played. Wasit something like an oud or a guitar, to be plucked and strummed? Was it more like a violin or a haegum, played with a bow? In some places they say that what she played was the very first zhonghu, the very first harp, the very first dulcimer.

这个故事发生在很久很久以前，人们对这个妇人弹奏的乐器各持己见，有人说她的乐器好象是某种能弹拨的弦琴或吉他，也有人说更像用琴弓弹奏的木琴或小提琴，在有些地方，人们说她弹奏的是最早的中胡，最早的竖琴，最早的洋琴。

The harp is the travelling patterer for the Universe's Insurance Company, recommending its laws, and our little goodness is all the assessment that we pay.

这竖琴好比宇宙保险公司里的旅行推销员，宣传它的条例，我们的小小善行是我们所付的保险费。

Nearly all of the music was piped in over the sound system by a prerecorded orchestra with Western instrumentation, the exceptions being live performances by a 13-year-old harpist performing a work by the 19th-century Belgian composer Félix Godefroid, three singers with Western operatic vocal technique, and an accompanist performing on a traditional Chinese Steinway 9' grand piano.

配乐都是播送一些事先录好的西乐片段，唯一的例外是一个13岁的竖琴演奏者表演了比利时作曲家费利克斯歌德富瓦的作品，有三个歌手表演了西方歌剧，另外有演奏者在施坦威钢琴上伴奏，还有一段二胡演奏。

She is a ***poser for the harp.

她是位写竖琴曲的作曲家

Boieldieu: Harp Concerto in 3 Tempi, 3rd Movement, Rondeau

波阿狄欧：三种速度的竖琴协奏曲，第三乐章，轮旋曲

that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up

你们一听见号角、箫、七弦琴、筝、竖琴，和所有其它乐器的声音，都要俯伏敬拜尼布甲尼撒王所立的金像。

The second, which was called the Rue de la Harpe on the left bank, Rue de la Barilleri in the island, Rue Saint-Denis on the right bank, Pont Saint-Michel on one arm of the Seine, Pont au Change on the other, ran from the Porte Saint-Michel in the University, to the Porte Saint-Denis in the Town.

第二条长街在左岸，名为竖琴街，在老城河洲上叫做箍桶街，在右岸叫做圣德尼街，在塞纳河两道河汊上各有一座桥，一座叫做圣米歇尔桥，另一座叫钱币兑换所桥，这条长街起自大学城的圣米歇尔门，止于新城的圣德尼门。

The violin, the harp , the sitar , the banjo and the lute are accompanied by electric bass and drums .

小提琴，竖琴，sitar，月琴和琵琶伴奏的电贝斯和鼓。

And his wild harp slung behind him.

他的竖琴和他躺在一起

The introduction presents arpeggios on the harp against a string tremolo--an enchanting sonority.

引子，在弦乐的震音上竖琴奏出了琶音，一种迷人的音响。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失