9. Portrait of an Actress 一位女演员的肖像.docxVIP

Portrait of an Actress 女演员肖像 By Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 ????When she came on to the stage as Lady Cicely in?Captain Brassbounds Conversion, the stage collapsed like a house of cards and all the lime-lights were extinguished. When she spoke it was as if someone drew a bow over a ripe, richly seasoned ‘cello’; it grated, it glowed, and it growled. Then she stopped speaking. She put on her glasses. She gazed intently at the back of a settee. She had forgotten her part. But did it matter? Speaking or silent she was Lady Cicely — or was it Ellen Terry? At any rate, she filled the stage and all the