Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove. 今天,炎暑来到我的窗前,轻嘘微语:群蜂在花树的宫廷中尽情弹唱。
Blackface minstrelsy was this really… gross performance practice in which white musicians would black up their face and lampoon Black musical traditions for a white audience.
黑脸吟游是一种非常粗俗的表演方式,白人音乐家把脸涂黑,在白人观众面前讽刺黑人的音乐传统。
七角楼(下)
Still the young Italian's eye turned sidelong upward; and it really seemed as if the touch of genuine, though slight and almost playful, emotion communicated a juicier sweetness to the dry, mechanical process of his minstrelsy.