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请听一段学生和教授之间的对话。

Listen to a conversation between a student and his professor.

学生：安德森教授，我真的不想让这一切听起来怪怪的，但我真的很感激您能花时间见我。。。

Student: Professor Anderson, I really don’t want this to come out sounding all wrong, like I really appreciate you seeing me, taking the time and everything…

学生：嗯，是关于现代戏剧课程的。

Student: Well, it’s about the modern drama course.

教授: 是啊，那门课有很多作业要做。

Professor: Ah, yeah, well, there’s a lot of work in that class.

我经常从学生那里听说，所以让我猜猜，是阅读太难了，作业字数太多了吗?

I hear about it all the time from students so let me guess, is the reading too difficult, assignments too long?

学生: 不，只是，我以为我们会读不同的东西，更现代的东西。

Student: No, actually it’s just, I thought we would be reading different stuff, like more modern.

教授: 我们读的是非常现代的，很典型的现代，我的意思是，你不认为塞缪尔·贝克特的作品是现代的吗?

Professor: What we are reading is very modern, quintessentially modern, I mean, don’t you think Samuel Beckett’s works are modern?

学生: 坦率地说,没有。我是说，我认为他比契诃夫更现代，但他最好的作品是在50多年前写的。

Student: Frankly, no. I mean, I think he is more modern than Chekhov, but he wrote his best stuff over 50 years ago.

教授: 哦,我明白了。你说的现代是指…

Professor: Oh, I see. So by modern you mean…

学生: 像David Mamet。我是说，他现在还活着并且还在写作。

Student: Like David Mamet. I mean, he is alive and writing right now.

教授: 我想你的意思是你想读更多当代剧作家的作品，对吗?

Professor: I think what you mean is you would like to read more contemporary playwrights, is that it?

学生: 是的，当代的，现代的，基本上是一样的，对吧?

Student: Yeah, contemporary, modern, basically the same thing, right?

教授: 嗯，我们在日常用语中确实可以互换使用它们，但就戏剧史而言，现代通常指20世纪初和中期，

Professor: Well, we do use them interchangeably in everyday speech, but in terms of the history of drama, modern generally means the early and mid-20th century,

前60年左右，但实际上它与时间跨度关系不大，更多地与一些非常重要的剧作家的作品有关。

the first six decades or so, but really it has less to do with the span of time and more to do with the work of a few very important playwrights.

学生: 我能看出这些人可能是他们那个时代的革命性艺术家，但他们的想法，在今天还适用吗?我是说，他们不是很老吗?

Student: I can see that these people may have been revolutionary artists for their times, but are their ideas, like, still relevant today? I mean, aren’t they, like, old hat?

教授: 嗯，我认为如果你仔细观察当代的剧作家，比如David Mamet，

Professor: Well, I think that if you take a closer look at contemporary playwrights like David Mamet,

你会发现他所做的和早期的剧作家，比如贝克特，甚至契诃夫，所做的并没有什么不同。

you’d realize what he is doing is not all that different from what, say, an earlier playwright like Beckett, or even Chekhov, for example, was doing.

如果没有这些早期的剧作家，几乎无法想象大卫·马梅会以这样的方式写作。

It’s almost impossible to imagine that David Mamet could be writing the way he does if it hadn’t been for those earlier playwrights.

教授: Mamet对语言的运用和对话的节奏，和贝克特一样，节奏是他对话中的一个重要元素。

Professor: Mamet’s use of language, and the rhythm of the dialogue, like Beckett, rhythm was an important element in his dialogue.

Mamet写过一部叫做《密码学》的戏剧，就是一个很好的例子。

There is one particular play written by Mamet called The Cryptogram, which is a great example of this.

我们可以这么说，贝克特隐藏在Mamet所有戏剧的背后，但这一部，《密码》，

Let’s just say that Beckett looms behind all of Mamet’s plays, but this one, The Cryptogram,

不仅是Mamet的语言让人想起了贝克特，还有马梅笔下的人物所处的困境。

well, it’s not only Mamet’s language that recalls Beckett, but also the predicament in which Mamet’s characters find themselves.

说实在的，迈克尔，我不认为课程描述有误导性。

Here, really, Michael, I don’t think the course description is misleading.

这是一门关于现代戏剧的课程，我们现在读的就是这门课。

This is a course on modern drama and that is what we are reading.

我的意思是，如果你对当代剧作家感兴趣，如果你想写你的第一篇关于当代剧作家的论文，你可以写，

I mean, if you are interested in contemporary dramatists, then you can if you want to write your first paper on a contemporary playwright,

但前提是它要和早期剧作家的作品进行比较。

but only if it’s a comparison with the work of an earlier playwright.

我认为这是一个很好的练习，它甚至可以帮助你解决我们今天谈到的一些问题。

I think that would be a good exercise, and it might even help you resolve some of the problems we talked about today.

Why does the student go to see the professor?

What is a view expressed by the student about early and mid-twentieth-century playwrights?

Why does the professor mention Mamet’s play The Cryptogram?

What is the professor’s suggestion for the student’s first paper?

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