About the year 1990,a small dark-haired boy named Charles Chaplin was often seen waiting outside the back entrances of theatres.He looked thin and hungry.He was hoping to get work in show business.He could sing and dance,and above all,he knew how to make people laugh.But he couldn’t get work and therefore wandered about the city streets.Sometimes he was sent away to a home for children who had no parents.
大约是在1990年（这个时间有问题吧.是1890吧.）的时候,人们常常看到一个黑头发的小男儿,名叫查尔斯.卓别林的,在剧院的后门口处徘徊.他看上去很瘦弱也很饥饿.他想要得到一份表演的工作.他能歌善舞,而且最重要的是,他懂得如何逗乐观众.但是他找不到工作,只好在街上游荡.有时候,他还会被遣送到孤儿院.
But twenty years later this same Chaplin became the greatest,best known,and best loved comedian in the world.Nearly all visitors to cinema must have seen some of Chaplin’s films.People everywhere had sat and laughed at them until the tears ran down their faces.Even people who don’t understand English can enjoy Chaplin’s films because they are almost silent.It isn’t what he says that makes people laugh.His comedy doesn’t depend on words or languages.It depends on little actions which mean the same thing to people all over the world.Acting out,without words,of common human situations plays an important part in the dances and plays of many countries.It’s a kind of world language.
但是二十年后,他成为了世界知名的,伟大的,并为人们广泛喜爱的喜剧大师.几乎所有去影院的观众都一定要看一场卓别林的电影.来自各地的观众坐在影院里看卓别林的作品看到笑出泪水,甚至是不懂英文的观众都能够欣赏,因为它们绝大部分是默片.让人们发笑的并非是他的语言,他的喜剧并不依靠语言制胜,而是依靠肢体动作,使得全世界人们都能够理解.无声地表演出普通人生活的场景,占据了他作品的大部分,并且持续影响了一个多世纪.这是一种世界的语言.
Chapin lived most of his life in America and died in Switzerland on Christmas 1977,at the age of eighty-eight.There was sadness all over the world at the news of his death.
卓别林一生的大部分时光都是在美国度过的,并于1977年的圣诞节于瑞士境内逝世,享年88岁.他逝世的消息引起了全世界的一致哀悼.