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  3. So why didn’t people just translate those operas into English? Unfortunately, when translated, the great European operas can be

So why didn’t people just translate those operas into English? Unfortunately, when translated, the great European operas can be

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问题     So why didn’t people just translate those operas into English? Unfortunately, when translated, the great European operas can be a mess. As anyone who has ever studied a foreign language can tell, a word- to-word translation can never communicate the emotional overtones (含意) of the language.
    To make matters worse, every syllable ( 音节 ) of text in an opera is matched up with a note of music-so when translating a foreign opera into English, you have to not only maintain the number of syllables in the sentence, but also make sure that the accented syllables land on accented musical notes. Furthermore, many arias ( 唱段 ) are written in rhymes ( 韵律 ), and rhymes can’t be translated without changing their meaning or abandoning their rhyme.
    For nearly two centuries, operagoers have had an unpleasant couple of choices: either hear operas performed in a language that they didn’t understand, or have them translated into English. Wasn’t there any solution?  
How long has the problem of opera translation existed?
选项 A、For less than two centuries.
B、For about two hundred years.
C、For over two hundred years.
D、For about one century.
答案B
解析 歌剧翻译这个问题存在多久了?文章最后一段第一句指出，近两个世纪以来，观众一直陷于两难境地。所以选B。
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