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掌声
Applause
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
灯光熄灭了，你听到了掌声，你站了起来，然后其他的一切都被遗忘了。
Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.
偶尔，如果你做了一些不寻常的事情，工作人员会报以自发的掌声，但这种情况非常罕见。
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
一个单口喜剧演员是由每一行来判断的。歌手不管唱得有多糟，唱完歌都会得到掌声。
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
舞蹈是最崇高、最动人、最美丽的艺术，因为它不仅仅是对生活的翻译或抽象;这就是生活本身。
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
有时候，我希望掌声能来得晚一点，当它是如此美丽的寂静，我觉得我在最后的寂静中屏住呼吸。
As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
当他们行进时，沿途的人群爆发出热烈的掌声，这是一种甜蜜而又发自内心的自发的节奏，是一种集体的拥抱。欢迎回家。
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
为那些不需要我们所有力量的工作而鼓掌，会阻碍我们向完善我们的精神前进。这通常意味着从那以后我们就站着不动了。
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
任何一年演讲超过六次的人注定要重复自己的演讲，不是因为他没什么可说的，而是因为他想要掌声，而老东西能得到掌声。
From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
从那时起，我意识到这就是我想做的，我应该做的:给予能量，并通过掌声回报。我爱它。这是我的世界。我爱它。我喜欢它。我为它而活。
I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.
我一直试图弄清楚听众和表演者是什么时候决定不允许在动作之间鼓掌的，但似乎没有人愿意承认他们是罪魁祸首。
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All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
我们都喜欢掌声，所以我们应该——这意味着听众喜欢我们!
Evil report carries further than any applause.
邪恶的报道比任何掌声都要响亮。
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
掌声是收据，不是账单。
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
成功只听掌声。对其他所有人来说，它都是聋子。
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
所有声音中最甜美的是赞美。
I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.
我真的觉得我不值得所有的掌声。