每日英語跟讀 Ep.K360:  芭蕾舞者失去了巨大的一年

<p>每日英語跟讀 Ep.K360: Ballet is hard enough. What Happens When You Lose a Year?</p> <p> </p> <p>In ballet when you lose a year, you lose a lot. It takes years of sacrifice and training to become a professional, and the performing life of a dancer is short.</p> <p>在芭蕾的世界，你失去一年，你的損失可就大了。經過多年犧牲訓練才能成為一個專業舞者，表演生涯卻頗為短暫。</p> <p>For elite ballet dancers, a solid career lasts around 15 years — and that comes after roughly a decade of schooling. Could this pause alter the evolution of dance generations?</p> <p>對菁英芭蕾舞者而言，穩定的職涯約可維持15年，唯須先經10年左右正式學習。這波疫情中斷會改變舞蹈界的世代演進嗎？</p> <p>“They’re losing a year to a year and a half of their career that they’re not going to get back,” Jonathan Stafford, New York City Ballet’s artistic director, said. “It’s not like they can make it up on the back end. Everyone eventually is going to age out.”</p> <p>「他們損失一年至一年半的職涯，而且無法追回。」紐約...