芝加哥人都是出色的演讲者，我们自有免费的诗歌朗诵，戏剧独白和讲故事聚会来证明这一点。

Chicagoans are great talkers, and we have the free poetry readings, monologues and storytelling events to prove it.

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当沃尔特朗诵结束并向妻子寻求赞赏之时，一个人的身影从路的拐角处映入了他们的眼帘。

As Walt finished and looked to his wife for approval, a man came into view around the turn of the trail.

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当沃尔特轻声地朗诵着他的诗稿之时，山下传来了一阵声响，一个人嘎吱嘎吱地走着，路上的碎石不时被压分出去，发出咔嗒咔嗒的声响。

Up from below came another sound that broke in upon Walt reading softly from his manuscript. It was a crunching of heavy feet, punctuated now and again by the clattering of a displaced stone.

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in fact I want to use the word stitched together, because in the Ancient Greek world the people who sang, recited, created the poems of the Homeric epics were called rhapsodes, and that means stitchers of songs.

事实上,我想使用"串联"这个词,因为在古希腊,那些歌唱,朗诵,和创作《荷马史诗》的人,被称为吟诵者,就是说把诗歌串联在一起传唱

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