He dismissed poetry as "a kind of ingenious nonsense," and the one time he attended an opera he fled at the third act.

他摒弃诗歌，视之为“精致的废话”，他有一次去听歌剧，在第三幕的时候就退席了。

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The action picks up in the third act.

故事情节从第三幕开始有起色。

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She seems to have camped up at the third act of the play.

她在第三幕中表演得似乎过火了。

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Only in the final half-hour of the third act does the opera really take off.

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"Die Fledermaus, " he felt, was missing an emotional lift in the third act, when the couple reunites (after multiple disguises, affairs and prison).

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However, his ability to learn from his mistakes and make the third act of his career as successful as it was is truly inspiring.

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