Role play角色扮演
Directions: Understand the following scenes and finish the annotation（注释）exercise. Then role play it in groups.
▲Selected Scene 1（时长2:40）
角色 ①Reverend Mother ②Maria
(Maria enjoys singing on the mountain about the beauty she sees and is late for vespers again. She confesses to Reverend Mother. )
REV. MOTHER: I’m here, my child. Now sit down.
MARIA: Oh, Reverend Mother, I’m so sorry. I just couldn’t help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and before ...
REV. MOTHER: I know! I have not summoned you here for apologies.
MARIA: Oh, please, Mother, do let me ask for forgiveness.
REV. MOTHER: If it will make you feel better.
MARIA: Yes. Well you see, the sky was so blue today and everything was so green and fragrant. I just had to be a part of it! And you know those birds kept meeting me higher and higher as though they want me to go right through the clouds with it.
REV. MOTHER: Child, suppose darkness had come and you were lost?
MARIA: Oh, Mother, I could never be lost up there. That’s my mountain; I was brought up on it. It was the mountain that led me to you.
REV. MOTHER: Oh?
MARIA: When I was a child, I would come down the mountain and climb a tree and look over into your garden. I’d see the sisters at would hear them sing on their way to vespers, which brings me to another transgression.Reverend Mother. I was singing out there today without permission.
REV. MOTHER: Maria, it is only here in the abbey that we have rules about postulant singing.
MARIA: I can’t seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what’s worse, I can’t seem to stop saying things. Everything and anything I think and feel.
REV. MOTHER: Some people would call that honesty.
MARIA: No, but it’s terrible, Reverend Mother. You know how Sister Beth always makes me kiss the floor after we had a disagreement? Well lately I’ve taken to kissing the floor when I see her coming just to save time.
REV. MOTHER: Maria, when you saw us over the abbey wall and longed to be one of us, that didn’t necessarily mean that you were prepared for the way we live here, did it?
MARIA: No, Mother. But I pray and I try and I am learning.I really am.
REV. MOTHER: What is the most important lesson you have learned here, my child?
MARIA: To find out what is the will of God and to do it whole-
heartedly.
REV. MOTHER:Maria, it seems to be the will of God that you leave us.
MARIA: Leave you?
REV. MOTHER:Only for a while,Maria.
MARIA: Oh, please. Mother, don’t do that. Please don’t send me away! This is where I belong. It’s my home, my family. It’s my life.
REV. MOTHER:Are you truly ready for it?
MARIA: Yes, I am.
REV. MOTHER:Perhaps if you go out into the world for a time, knowing what we expect of you,you will have a chance to find out if you could expect it of yourself.
MARIA: I know what you expect, Mother, and I can do it. I promise I can!
REV. MOTHER:Maria ...
MARIA: Yes, Mother.It is God’s will.
Explain the following wordsand expressions in Chinese:
1. Reverend
2. I just couldn’t help myself.
3. beckon
4. summon
5. do let me ask for forgiveness
6. fragrant
7. be brought up
8. vespers
9. transgression
10. abbey
11. postulant
12. take to …
13. To find out what is the will of God and to do it whole-heartedly.
14. This is where I belong.
15. what we expect of you
▲Selected Scene 2（时长3:08）
角色 ①Captain Von Trapp ②Baroness Elsa Schneider ③Maria
(The captain comes back home with Baroness Schneider from Vienna and sees his children and Maria rowing a boat on the lake.)
CAPTAIN: Straight line!This is Baroness Schneider. And these are my children.
BARONESS: How do you do.
CAPTAIN: All right, go inside, dry off, clean up, change your clothes, report back here. Immediately! Fraulein, you will stay here, please.
BARONESS: I ... er ... think I’d better go see what Max is up to.
CAPTAIN: Now,Fraulein. I want a truthful answer from you.
MARIA: Yes, Captain?
CAPTAIN: Is it possible, or could I have just imagined it? Have my children by any chance been climbing trees today?
MARIA: Yes. Captain.
CAPTAIN: I see. And where, may I ask did they get these … er ... these … er ...
MARIA: Play clothes.
CAPTAIN: Oh, is that what you call them?
MARIA: I made them. From the drapes used to hang in my bedroom.
CAPTAIN: Drapes?
MARIA: They still have plenty of wear left. The children have been everywhere in them.
CAPTAIN: Do you mean to tell me that my children have been roaming about Salzburg dressed up in nothing but some old drapes?!
MARIA: Hmm-mm, and having a marvelous time.
CAPTAIN: They have uniforms.
MARIA: Strait-jackets,if you’ll forgive me.
CAPTAIN: I will not forgive you for that!
MARIA: Children cannot do all the things they’re supposed to do if they have to worry about spoiling their precious clothes.
CAPTAIN: I haven’t heard a complaint yet!
MARIA: Well, they wouldn’t dare! They love you too much. They fear you too much.
CAPTAIN: I don’t wish you to discuss my children in this manner.
MARIA: Oh, you’ve got to hear from someone! You’re never home long enough to know them.
CAPTAIN: I said I don’t want to hear anymore from you about my children.
MARIA: I know you don’t but you’ve got to.Now, take Liesl …
CAPTAIN: You will not say one word about Liesl, Fraulein.
MARIA: She’s not a child anymore. One of these days you’re going to wake up and find she’s a woman. You won’t even know her. And Frederick. He’s a boy but he wants to be a man, like you, and there’s no one to show him how!
CAPTAIN: Don’t you dare tell me about my son.
MARIA: Bargitta could tell you, if you’d let her get close to you. She notices everything.
CAPTAIN: Fraulein ...
MARIA: And Kurt pretend she’s tough not to show how hurt he is when you brush him aside ...
CAPTAIN: That will do.
MARIA: The way you do all of them. Louisa I don’t know about yet ...
CAPTAIN: I said that will do!
MARIA: … but someone has to find out about her, and the little ones just want to be loved! Oh, please Captain. Love them. Love them all!
CAPTAIN: I don’t care to hear anything further from you about my children!
MARIA: I am not finished yet. Captain!
CAPTAIN: Oh, yes you are, Captain ... Fraulein. Now, you will pack your things this minute and return to the abbey. (Captain hears some children singing.) What’s that?
MARIA: It’s singing.
CAPTAIN: Yes, I realize it’s singing, but who is singing?
MARIA: The children.
CAPTAIN: The children?
MARIA: I taught them something to sing for the Baroness.
Explain the following words and expressions in Chinese:
1. Straight line!
2. report back here
3. what Max is up to
4. Have my children by any chance been climbing trees today?
5. drape
6. They still have plenty of wear left.
7. Do you mean to tell me that my children have been roaming about Salzburg dressed up in nothing but some old drapes?!
8. uniform
9. Strait-jackets, if you’ll forgive me.
10. complaint
11. in this manner
12. You’re never home long enough to know them.
13. Don’t you dare tell me about my son!
14. And Kurt pretend she’s tough not to show how hurt he is when you brush him aside.
15. That will do.
16. Baroness
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▲Selected Scene 3（时长2:44）
角色 ①Reverend Mother ②Maria
(Maria’s feeling about the captain confuses her and causes her to return to the abbey.)
REV. MOTHER: You’ve been unhappy. I’m sorry.
MARIA: Reverend Mother.
REV. MOTHER: Why did they send you back to us?
MARIA: They didn’t send me back,Mother, I left.
REV. MOTHER: Sit down, Maria. Tell me what happened.
MARIA: Well. I ... I was frightened.
REV. MOTHER: Frightened? Were they unkind to you?
MARIA: Oh, no! No, I was confused. I felt ... I’ve never felt that way before, I couldn’t stay. I knew that here I’d be away from it. I’d be safe.
REV. MOTHER: Maria, our abbey is not to be used as an escape. What is it you can’t face?
MARIA: I can’t face him again.
REV. MOTHER: Him? (speaking to Sister Margarita) Thank you. Sister Margarita. (Margarita leaves.) Captain Von Trapp? Are you in love with him?
MARIA: I don’t know. I don’t know ... I ... The baroness and I ... She said he was in love with me, but I didn’t want to believe it. Oh,there were times when we would look at each other ... Oh Mother, I could hardly breathe.
REV. MOTHER: Did you let him see how you felt?
MARIA: If I did, I didn’t know it. That’s what’s been torturing me; I was there on God’s errand. To have asked for his love would have been wrong. Oh, I couldn’t stay. I just couldn’t. I am ready this moment to take my vows. Please help me.
REV. MOTHER: Maria. The love of the man and the woman is holy too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love.
MARIA: But I pledged my life to God, I ... I pledged my life to His service.
REV. MOTHER:My daughter, if you love this man, it doesn’t mean you love God less. No, you must find out. You must go back.
MARIA: Oh Mother, you can’t ask me to do that! Please let me stay, I beg you.
REV. MOTHER:Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
Explain the following words and expressions in Chinese:
1. confused
2. escape
3. there were times when …
4. torture
5. on God’s errand
6. To have asked for his love would have been wrong.
7. take my vows
8. holy
9. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love.
10. I pledged my life to His service.
11. shut out problems
12. You have to live the life you were born to live.
▲Selected Scene 4（时长4:40）
角色 ①Captain Von Trapp ②Maria
③Liesl, Frederick, Louisa, Kurt, Bargitta, Marta
(Maria arrives at the captain’s house.)
CAPTAIN: Why do you stare at me that way?
MARIA: Well, you don’t look at all like a sea captain, sir.
CAPTAIN: I’m afraid you don’t look much like a governess. Turn around,please.
MARIA: What?
CAPTAIN: Turn. Hat off. It’s the dress. You have to put on another one before you meet the children.
MARIA: But I don’t have another one. When we enter the abbey, our worldly clothes are given to the poor.
CAPTAIN: What about this one?
MARIA: The poor didn’t want this one.
CAPTAIN: Hmm.
MARIA: I would have made myself a new dress but there wasn’t time. I can make my own clothes.
CAPTAIN: Well, I’ll see that you get some material. Today, if possible.Now, Fraulein ... er ...
MARIA: Maria.
CAPTAIN: Fraulein Maria, I don’t know how much the Mother has told you?
MARIA: Not much.
CAPTAIN: You’re the twelfth in a long line of governesses, who have come to look after my children since their mother died. I trust that you will be an improvement on the last one. She stayed only two hours.
MARIA: What’s wrong with the children, sir?
CAPTAIN: There was nothing wrong with the children, only the governesses. They were completely unable to maintain discipline. Without it, the house can not be properly run. Please remember that, Fraulein.
MARIA: Yes, Sir.
CAPTAIN: Every morning you will drill the children in their studies. I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays. Each afternoon they will march about the ground,breathing deeply. Bedtime is to be strictly observed. No exception.
MARIA: Excuse me, sir. When do they play?
CAPTAIN: You’ll see to that they conduct themselves at all time with the utmost orderliness and decorum. I’m placing you in command.
MARIA: Yes, sir.
CAPTAIN: Now, this is your new governess, Fraulein Maria. As I sound your signals, you will step forward and give your name. You, Fraulein, will listen carefully. Learn their signals so you can call them when you want them.
LIESL: Liesl.
FREDERICK: Frederick.
LOUISA: Louisa.
KURT: Kurt.
BARGITTA: Bargitta.
MARTA: Marta.
CAPTAIN: And Gretl. Now, let’s see how well you listened.
MARIA: Oh, I won’t need to whistle for them. Reverend Captain. I mean, I’ll use their names. And such lovely names.
CAPTAIN: Fraulein, this is a large house. The grounds are very extensive. I will not have anyone shouting. You will take this, please. (giving Maria a whistle) Learn to use it. The children will help you. Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear.
MARIA: No, sir. I’m sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.
CAPTAIN: Fraulein, were you in this much trouble at the abbey?
MARIA: Oh, much more, sir.
CAPTAIN: Hmm.
MARIA: Excuse me, sir. I don’t know your signal.
CAPTAIN: You may call me Captain. (Captain leaves.)
Explain the following words and expressions in Chinese:
1. Hat off.
2. worldly
3. Fraulein ...
4. I trust that you will be an improvement on the last one.
5. There was nothing wrong with the children, only the governesses.
6. maintain discipline
7. drill the childrenin their studies
8. I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays.
9. march
10. observe
11. No exception.
12. You’ll see to that they conduct themselves at all time with the utmost orderliness and decorum.
13. in command
14. sound your signals
15. Reverend Captain.
16. humiliating
Paragraph Translation段落翻译
Directions: Translate the following English into Chinese.
(Captain Von Trapp tells Maria that he has talked to Baroness Schneiderto cancel their engagement.)
CAPTAIN: Hello. I thought I just might find you here.
MARIA: Is there something you wanted?
CAPTAIN: No, no, no, sit down please. Please. ... Er ... may I? ... You know I was thinking, I was wondering two things: Why did you run away to the abbey, and what was it that made you come back?
MARIA: Well, I had an obligationto fulfill and I came back to fulfill it.
CAPTAIN: Is that all?
MARIA: And I missed the children.
CAPTAIN: Yes. Only the children?
MARIA: No. Yes! Isn’t it right I should have missed them?
CAPTAIN: Yes, yes, of course. I was only hoping that perhaps you ...perhaps you might ... er ...
MARIA: Yes?
CAPTAIN: Well ... er ... nothing was the same when you were away. And it’ll be all wrong again after you leave. And I just thought that perhaps you might ... er ... change your mind?
MARIA: I’m sure the Baroness will be able to make things fine for you.
CAPTAIN: Maria, there isn’t going to be any Baroness.
MARIA: There isn’t?
CAPTAIN: No.
MARIA: I don’t understand.
CAPTAIN: Well, we’ve ...er ... called off our engagement, you see and er...
MARIA: Oh, I’m sorry.
CAPTAIN: Yes ... you are?
MARIA: You did?
CAPTAIN: Yes. You can’t marry someone when you’re in love with someone else, can you?
MARIA: Oh, Reverend Mother always says “where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.”
CAPTAIN: What else does the Reverend Mother say?
MARIA: You have to look for your life.
CAPTAIN: Is that why you came back? And have you found it, Maria?
MARIA: I think I have, I know I have.
CAPTAIN: I love you.
MARIA: Oh, can this be happening to me?
Directions: Translate the following Chinese into English.
《音乐之声》是我最喜欢的电影之一，它讲述了一个发生在第二次世界大战期间的感人的故事。上校一家人对音乐全身心的热爱，给我留下了深刻的印象。电影中甜美动听的歌曲让我意识到，音乐是人类的共同语言，没有国界，不分种族。其中我最喜欢的歌曲是《雪绒花》，在影片的结尾，在德国人的严密监视下，剧场里的气氛异常紧张，上校一家人演唱的这首歌曲就像盛开在污泥中洁净的花朵，让人看到了希望和春天。
Writing
Directions:You are allowed to write a short composition of about 120 words on the topic of The Goodness of Life. The outline has been given as below in Chinese:
1. 生活中有很多事让人忧虑
2. 生命的美好不能否认
3. 睁开双眼打开心扉，欣赏生命的美好
