short plays, long plays, comedy, dance.

短剧，长戏，喜剧，舞蹈剧。

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This is the verse form, you'll recognize it, in so many of the long speeches of characters in the plays of Marlowe and of Shakespeare.

这就是你们经常在马洛和莎士比亚戏剧中的,角色的大段独白中看到的诗体。

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Now in the course of this, a student asked a very good question that I should have pointed out a long time ago, and that is: when an orchestra plays or an ensemble plays and they're looking at their music and they're reading their music, do they play a chord?

在这期间，我本该早就提起的，由一个学生提出的非常好的问题是，当管弦乐队演奏或合奏团演出时,他们各个盯着并读自己的那部分乐谱，他们奏出和弦了吗？

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You told me that you've written plays by yourself. How long did it take you to finish them?

你告诉我你自己写剧本。写完一个剧本要多久呢？

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cause Shakespeare's plays tend to be quite long,

因为莎士比亚的戏剧都相当长，

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