A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
芭蕾舞
Ballet
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
我非常想学芭蕾，但实际上我只想穿芭蕾短裙。
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
当其他小女孩想成为芭蕾舞演员时，我有点想成为吸血鬼。
My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.
我最早的记忆是坐在妈妈的舞蹈学校，看着她教芭蕾课。
If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
如果我没有孩子，我这辈子每天晚上都会去看戏剧或芭蕾。
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
许多人坚持在现代舞和芭蕾之间筑一道墙。我开始认为墙是非常不健康的东西。
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
在我的芭蕾舞剧里，女人是第一位的。男人是配偶。上帝让男人歌颂女人。他们不平等，他们比男人强。
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我每周晚上去三次舞台学校——唱歌、芭蕾舞、踢踏舞、现代舞和表演，我很喜欢。
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.
我喜欢芭蕾。芭蕾舞是它自己的存在。它有自己的词汇。当我在芭蕾舞工作室的时候，我觉得我好像在一个不同的世界。
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.
我的背景有些不同寻常，因为我受过芭蕾舞训练。我在剧院当了八九年的现代舞演员。
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
我学了很多年芭蕾，所以我的整个童年都是围绕着舞蹈课度过的。我在舞蹈中长大;我妈妈是个舞蹈家。
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
我身体健康，能够经常出去跳舞，这一点对我来说并不重要。
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
我在芭蕾舞学校上了9年学，学校里有个经纪人碰巧去看一场演出。她建议去试镜。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
我年轻时常跳舞——芭蕾舞和现代舞。
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
事实上，当我还是个孩子的时候，中西部还没有芭蕾舞团。
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
所有的芭蕾舞，所有的阅读，所有的音乐。那是我的世界，我的内心世界。
Classical ballet will never die.
古典芭蕾永远不会消亡。
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
在芭蕾舞中，一个复杂的故事是不可能讲出来的。我们不会跳舞的同义词。
I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.
我目前没有当芭蕾舞演员的计划。