In the song "The Telecasters" Duke Ellington musically recreates the three witches in Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

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If there is atmosphere in the passage I'm about to quote from Macbeth, it must be atmosphere of a certain kind and there for a certain reason.

如果下面这篇《麦克白》里的选段有所谓的“气氛“,那这种气氛一定因为某种原因以某种形式存在着。

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When I was at school, I studied "Romeo and Juliet" and "Macbeth" as well.

当我上学的时候，我学过《罗密欧与朱丽叶》和《麦克白》。

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For his tragic play "Macbeth,"

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He always zooms in on something, thinks about it for a while and then goes away and thinks about something else, leaving us to decide whether it has a genuine bearing on the entirety or on the literary wholeness or unity of Macbeth.

他常常是放大一些细节，思考一会儿，然后放弃了,又开始想别的，让读者自己思考这部分,是不是对麦克白,整体有影响。

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He is simply interested in saying as much as he can about certain local effects, certainly with the implication, possibly, that this has a bearing on our understanding of, ; let's say, the whole of Macbeth; but he doesn't set about doing a systematic reading of the whole of Macbeth.

他只对作出详尽的具体分析有兴趣,当然会有一些暗示，这对我们理解，麦克白造成了影响;,但是他没有,关于麦克白全文的系统解读。

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I'm sorry if I sound a little bit like Billy Phelps, but I do get excited. He quotes the passage from Macbeth.

如果我听着有点像Billy，Phelps，那不好意思了，因为我真的挺激动的，来看麦克白的选段。

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