地铁里的小提琴家.docx

A Violinist in the Metro 地铁里的小提琴家 （注 （注:因为一位音乐家朋友 的） ，而知道了这样一个故事，起初，以为是故事，到后来发现，故事是真实 A man sat at a metro station in Washington D.C. and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. 一月某个寒冷的早晨，华盛顿（美国首都）的一个地铁站里，有个人坐下来并开始拉小提琴。 他连续演奏了六首巴赫的曲子， 大约45分钟。由于恰逢上班人流高峰时段， 我们可以估算， 在这45分钟里，有成千上万的人经过这座地铁站，大多是赶去上班的人。 Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few sec onds and the n hurried on to meet his schedule. 三分钟过去了，一位中年男士注意到地铁站里有人在拉小提琴。他放慢脚步，逗留了几秒， 然后匆匆离去，显然不想迟到。 A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopp ing continued to walk. 又过了一分钟，小提琴家收到了第一笔小费： 一位女士往收钱的盒子里投了一美元， 并未停 歇就继续赶路了。 A few mi nu tes later, some one lea ned aga inst the wall to liste n to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk aga in. Clearly he was late for work. 过了一会儿，有个人倚着墙听他拉小提琴，但这位先生看了看手表又迈步走开了， 显然是上 班要迟到了。 The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violi ni st. Fin ally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the pare nts, without exceptio n, forced them to move on. 对小提琴演奏者关注最多的是一个三岁的小男孩。 紧跟在身后的母亲催促他快走， 但这个孩 子还是停下来看小提琴家的表演。最后， 母亲使劲推着小男孩走开了， 孩子不情愿，三步一 回头。后来又有好几个孩子象这样停下来看表演， 但他们的父母都让他们继续赶路， 无一例 外地强行把孩子带走了。 GUUWII (llllilJo hi GUUWII (llllil Jo hi I Hu Jin Nil Li lib llllh IfMPUff In the 45 minu tes the musicia n played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.