016《经济学家》读译参考之十六大珠小珠落玉盘－琵琶的新生.docVIP

TEXT 16 Like pearls falling into a jade plate Mar 30th 2006 From The Economist print edition WHEN Wu Man arrived in New Haven1, Connecticut, from Beijing in 1990 she spoke no English and ★gambled on[1] surviving with the help of her pipa, a traditional lute-like Chinese instrument. She has succeeded (A) （triumph）, working her way from New Yorks Chinatown to Carnegie Hall2, where she gives her debut recital on April 6th. The pipa is a sonorous, four-stringed, pear-shaped instrument held upright on the lap. Its strings used to be silk but are now steel, which resonates better. The fake finger