英语相声剧本

 　　1 In the Aabbey

　　(The story starts in an abbey of Salzburg, Austria, in the last Golden Days of the Thirties. Halleluyah!

　　Bernice: Reverend Mother...

　　Reverend Mother: Sister Bernice.

　　Bernice: I simply cannot find her.

　　Reverend Mother: Marisa?

　　Bernice: She's missing from the abbey again.

　　Sister A: Perhaps we should have put a cowbell around her neck.

　　Sister B: Have you tried the barn? You know how much she adores the animals.

　　Bernice: I have looked everywhere, in all of the usual places.

　　Revernd Mother: Sister Bernice, considering that is Maria, I suggest you look in some place unusual.

　　(Later, Maria gets back and comes to see Reverend Mother.)Reverend Mother: I'm here, my child. Now sit down.

　　Maria (short for M): Oh, Reverend Mother, I'm so sorry. I just couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning¹ and before...

　　Reverend Mother: I know! I have not summoned you here for apologies.

　　M: Oh, please Mother, do let me ask for forgiveness.

　　Reverend Mother: If it will make you feel better.

　　M: Yes. Well you see, the sky was so blue today and everything was so green and fragrant². I just had to be a part of it! And you know those birds kept meeting me higher and higher as though it wanted me to go right through the clouds with it.

　　Reverend Mother: Child, suppose darkness had come and you were lost?

　　M: Oh, Mother, I could never be lost up there. That's my mountain, I was brought up on it. It was the mountain that led me to you.

　　Reverend Mother: Oh?

　　M: When I was a child, I would come down the mountain and climb a tree and look over into your garden. I'd see the sisters at work and I would hear them sing on their way to Vespers, which brings me to another transgression³, Reverend Mother. I was singing out there today without permission.

　　Reverend other: Maria, it is only here in the abbey that we have rules about postulant singing.

　　M: I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things. Everything and anything I think and feel.

　　Reverend Mother: Some people would call that honesty.

　　M: No, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother. You know how Sister Beth always makes me kiss the floor after we had a disagreement? Well lately I've taken to kissing the floor when I see her coming just to save time.

　　Reverend Mother: Maria, when you saw us over the abbey wall and longed to be one of us, that didn't necessarily mean that you were prepared for the way we live here, did it?

　　M: No, Mother. But I pray and I try and I am learning. I really am.

　　Reverend Mother: What is the most important lesson you have learned here, my child?

　　M: To find out what is the will of God and to do it whole-heartedly.

　　Reverend Mother: Maria, it seems to be the will of God that you leave us.

　　M: Leave you?

　　Reverend Mother: Only for a while, Maria.

　　M: Oh, please, Mother, don't do that. Please don't send me away! This is where I belong. It's my home. My family. It's my life.

　　Reverend Mother: Are you truly ready for it?

　　M: Yes, I am.

　　Reverend Mother: Perhaps if you go out into the world for a time, knowing what we expect of you. You will have a chance to find out that you could expect it from yourself.

　　M: I know what you expect, Mother, and I can do it. I promise I can!

　　Reverend Mother: Maria...

　　M: Yes, mother. It is God's will.

　　Reverend Mother: There is a family near Salzburg that needs a governess until needs a governess until September.

　　M: September?!

　　Reverend Mother: To take care of seven children.

　　M: Seven children?!

　　Reverend Mother: Do you like children Maria?

　　M: Oh yes, but seven....

　　Reverend Mother: I will tell Captain Von Trapp to expect you tomorrow.

　　M: A captain?

　　Reverend Mother: A retired⁴ officer of the imperial Navy. A fine man and a brave one. His wife died several years ago. Living in the dorm with the children, and I understand he has had a most difficult time managing to keep a governess there.

　　M: Er.. Why difficult, Reverend Mother?

　　Reverend Mother: The Lord will show you in His own good time.

　　(Maria, with her bag and guitar in hands, walks sullenly⁵ out of the abbey.)M (singing): What will this day be like, I wonder.

　　What will my future be, I wonder.

　　It could be so exciting to be out in the world, to be free.

　　My heart should be wildly rejoicing,

　　Oh, what's the matter with me? I've always longed for adventure, to do the things I've never did. Now here I'm pacing adventure, then why am I so scared?

　　(Oh, help.)

　　I have confidence in confidence alone,

　　Besides which you see, I have confidence in me.

 

1 beckoning   

adj.引诱人的，令人心动的v.（用头或手的动作）示意，召唤( beckon的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• An even more beautiful future is beckoning us on. 一个更加美好的未来在召唤我们继续前进。 来自辞典例句
• He saw a youth of great radiance beckoning to him. 他看见一个丰神飘逸的少年向他招手。 来自辞典例句

2 fragrant   

adj.芬香的，馥郁的，愉快的

参考例句：

• The Fragrant Hills are exceptionally beautiful in late autumn.深秋的香山格外美丽。
• The air was fragrant with lavender.空气中弥漫薰衣草香。

3 transgression   

n.违背；犯规；罪过

参考例句：

• The price can make an action look more like a transaction than a transgression.罚款让一个行为看起来更像是一笔交易而不是一次违法行为。
• The areas of transgression are indicated by wide spacing of the thickness contours.那幢摩天大楼高耸入云。

4 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

5 sullenly   

不高兴地，绷着脸，忧郁地

参考例句：

• 'so what?" Tom said sullenly. “那又怎么样呢？”汤姆绷着脸说。
• Emptiness after the paper, I sIt'sullenly in front of the stove. 报看完，想不出能找点什么事做，只好一人坐在火炉旁生气。