考研读译参考《经济学家》：琵琶的新生
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 surviving with the help of her pipa, a traditional lute-like Chinese instrument. She has succeeded (A) （triumph）, working her way from New York's 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 fingernails on Ms Wu's right hand ★pluck the strings, while her left hand fingers the ★frets. （1）She produces an (B) (astonish) range of colours and moods from a 2,000-year-old instrument which produces a sound, observed a poet from the Tang dynasty, like “pearls falling into a jade plate”.
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