As he talked along, softly, pleasantly, flowingly, he seemed to drift away imperceptibly out of this world and time, and into some remote era and old forgotten country.

他软声软气地，滔滔不绝地向我娓娓而谈，不知不觉的，他似乎是离开了这个世界与时代，漂流到一个荒远难稽的时代与早已被人忘记的古国。

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To relax one of them, and to make it clear that she needed more dynamic expression in her playing, he sang to her, he conducted flowingly with his hands, he pretended to fall to the stage in mock delight.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian