Music

Never did music more sink into and soothe and fill me --never so prove its soul--rousing power, its impossibility of statement. Especially in the rendering of one of Beethoven's master septets... was I carried away, seeing, absorbing many wonders. Dainty abandon, sometimes as if Nature laughing on a hillside in the sunshine; serious and firm monotonies, as of winds; a horn sounding through the tangle of the forest, and the dying echoes; soothing floating of waves, but presently rising in surges, angrily lashing, muttering, heavy; piercing peals of laughter, for interstices; now and then weird, as Nature herself is in certain moods --but mainly spontaneous, easy, careless --often the sentiment of the postures of naked children playing or sleeping. It did me good even to watch the violinists drawing their bows so masterly --every motion a study. I allowed myself, as I sometimes do, to wander out of myself. The conceit came to me of a copious grove of singing birds, and in their midst a simple harmonic duo, two human souls, steadily asserting their own pensiveness, joyousness.

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音樂從未如此滲透我的心靈，撫慰和充實我的心靈--從未如此顯示它喚醒靈魂的力量，它的不可言傳。尤其在演奏貝多芬的一首杰出的七重奏時……我神魂顛倒，目睹吸收了多少神妙之處。奔放而不失優雅，有時恍如造化在陽光照耀下的山腰傲笑；蕭然執著的單調重復，恍如風聲颯然；號聲響徹縱橫交錯的森林，繼而是漸漸消失的回聲；波浪平緩飄蕩，可是一會兒又洶涌澎湃，怒濤沖擊，隆隆作響，沉重有力；間隙傳來尖利洪亮的笑聲；偶爾怪誕，如同造化有時喜怒無常--不過大體還是自然而然，從容自在，無憂無慮--往往宛如赤身露體的孩童在玩?；虺了瘯r神態可掬。小提琴手弓弦舞動嫻熟自如，即使觀看也能使我受益--每一個動作都有講究。我聽任自己忘我神游，有時我就是如此。我忽發奇想，有一個百鳥歡唱的富饒園林，啁啾嘀囀之間有個簡單和諧的一對，兩個人的靈魂，堅定地道出了他們自己的憂思和歡樂。

總結：

先來看一下結構吧，雖然是抒情文，但也有一定的結構，從開始到演奏貝多芬的曲子那個是主題句，然后是一系列曲子的感受，最后呢，加了一點自己的想象。這里呢，稍稍和考試結合一下，如果在考試中碰到這樣的文章，幾乎看得云里霧里，我們先抓主題句，細節可以扔在一邊，如果后面的題目提到了，再到文章中去尋找相應的地方，細細看一下。

單詞呢，大家都查了很多，蘋果推薦如果有興趣的朋友可以背誦這篇很優美的文章，從文章中體會意境，熟悉一下英語的表達方式，或者多讀幾遍，你也會慢慢體會這些詞的用法。