跟读练习: You’re invited to the masquerade. Do you dare attend? - Iseult Gillespie - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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The Red Death had long devastated the country.
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The Red Death had long devastated the country.
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Blood was its Avatar.
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There were sharp pains, sudden dizziness, then profuse bleeding at the pores.
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The scarlet stains upon the body were the pest ban, which shut out aid and sympathy.
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The whole progress and termination of the disease were the incidents of half an hour.
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But Prince Prospero was happy.
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When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and retired to one of his castellated abbeys.
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A strong and lofty wall girdled it in.
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The external world could take care of itself.
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In the meantime, it was folly to grieve— or to think.
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It was toward the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion that Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball.
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There were seven rooms.
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In each, a Gothic window of stained glass whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue.
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The seventh was closely shrouded in black velvet.
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The panes were scarlet and produced so wild a look upon those who entered that there were few bold enough to set foot within its precincts.
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It was in this apartment also that there stood a gigantic clock of ebony.
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When its minute hand made the circuit of the face, there came forth a sound so peculiar that there was a brief disconcert.
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But when the echo ceased, a light laughter pervaded the assembly.
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The musicians smiled at their own nervousness.
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And then, after the lapse of 60 minutes, the same tremulousness as before.
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But, in spite of these things, it was a magnificent revel.
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The tastes of the Duke were peculiar.
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There are some who would have thought him mad.
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There was much of the beautiful, wanton, bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.
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To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked a multitude of dreams.
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And these, the dreams— writhed in and about, taking hue from the rooms.
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And, anon, there strikes the ebony clock, and momently, all is still.
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And now again the music swells, and the dreams live, and writhe to and fro more merrily than ever.
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But to the chamber which lies most westwardly, none of the maskers venture, for there flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes.
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And to him whose foot falls upon the carpet, there comes from the clock a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulge in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments.
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The revel went whirlingly on— until the twelfth hour.
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There was an uneasy cessation of all things.
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More of thought crept.
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And many individuals in the crowd had become aware of a masked figure.
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There arose a murmur, at first of surprise— then, finally, terror and disgust.
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The figure was shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.
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The mask was made to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse.
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The mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death, dabbled in blood.
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When the eyes of the Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image, his brow reddened with rage.
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“Who dares thus to make mockery of our woes?
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Uncase the varlet that we may know whom we have to hang tomorrow!” None put forth hand to seize him.
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Unimpeded, he made his way through.
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Prince Prospero, maddening with the shame of his own cowardice, bore aloft a drawn dagger, and approached the retreating figure, when the latter, having attained the extremity of the velvet apartment, turned suddenly.
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There was a sharp cry— and the dagger dropped, upon which instantly fell Prince Prospero.
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The revellers gasped, finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask untenanted by any tangible form.
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And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death.
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One by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls.
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And the life of the ebony clock went out.
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And the flames expired.
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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在艾瑟爾特·吉萊斯比的影片中，我們進入了一個神秘而又陰暗的面具舞會的世界。故事背景設定在一個飽受紅死病疫影響的國家，塑造出一個無法逃避的恐懼氛圍。王子普羅斯佩羅邀請了千名好友在他的城堡中舉行舞會，試圖在巨大的牆壁後隱藏自己對於外界的恐懼和絕望。這種背景不僅充滿了神秘和戲劇性，也為英語學習者提供了豐富的學習素材，從其中提煉出諸多表達和語言技巧。
日常交流的五個關鍵短語
- “Do you dare attend?” - 這句話表達了對挑戰的邀請，適合用於鼓勵他人參加活動。
- “The external world could take care of itself.” - 這裡強調自我保護的重要性，適合用于分享生活的哲學。
- “What a magnificent revel.” - 用來描述令人驚嘆的聚會或慶祝，既可以日常使用，也可以於社交場合中增加表達的色彩。
- “Who dares thus to make mockery of our woes?” - 強烈表達對於不敬之行為的不滿，也能被用於辯論或討論中。
- “Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion.” - 這句話適合用於形容面對絕望情境時的感受，增強文學表達能力。
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