Racine has an incredible gift for entering into extreme psychological states.

拉辛拥有一种令人难以置信的天赋 能够进入极端的心理状态。

Probably because audiences were so hyped up about Racine's rival Corneille.

可能是因为观众对拉辛的竞争对手 高乃依 太过兴奋了。

It was built as the new headquarters for SC Johnson in Racine, Wisconsin.

它是庄臣公司在威斯康辛州拉辛市的新总部。

Let's start with Racine, because he follows the rules scrupulously and elegantly.

我们先来说说拉辛 因为他是规则的忠实遵循者。

Right away we can see how Corneille is different from Racine.

很快我们就能看出高乃依和拉辛的不同之处了。

Other playwrights twist themselves into knots trying to observe the unities, but Racine makes it look easy.

为了遵循一致性 其他剧作家绞尽脑汁 但拉辛却把这点变得看起来不那么地费力。

Park High School. It's in Racine, Wisconsin.

公园高中。它位于威斯康星州的拉辛。

Family Happiness has the perfection of a work of Racine.

家庭幸福有拉辛作品的完美。

They've run out of ballots in Racine, Wisconsin.

威斯康辛的拉辛投票站 选票用完了。

Yeah, they've run out of ballots in Racine, Wisconsin.

是的 威斯康辛的拉辛投票站 选票用完了。

Racine knew as few have done how much drama is contained in the human voice.

拉辛知道人声中包含了多少戏剧性，因为很少有人做过。

Corneille focuses on men with free will; Racine is interested in women doomed by fate.

高乃依喜欢刻画有自由意志的人 而拉辛则喜欢刻画被命运束缚的女人。

Like most classical French playwrights, Racine wrote in a metrical line called an alexandrine, a twelve-syllable line of iambic hexameter.

和大多数法国的古典主义剧作家一样 拉辛用一种叫做亚历山大体的格律来写作 即一种十二音节的六格抑扬格诗行。

Racine's most famous play is the five-act tragedy Phedre, from 1677, based on the Greek myth of, well, Phaedra.

拉辛最著名的戏剧是五幕悲剧《菲德拉》 创作于1677年 根据希腊神话 嗯 《费德拉》改编。

Racine likes simple plots and complex characters, and Corneille is the other way around.

拉辛喜欢写简单的情节和复杂的人物 而科尼尔则恰恰相反。

While he was aware of the neoclassical rules, Corneille never adhered to them as carefully, or as elegantly, as Racine did.

高乃依虽然知道新古典主义的规则 但他从来没有像拉辛那样完全地按照规则进行创作。

Most of Racine's plays are simple stories focused on tormented women.

拉辛的大多戏剧都是简单的故事 焦点在于饱受折磨的妇女。

I could not but think that that was how Racine would have wished his play to be played.

我不能不认为这就是拉辛希望他的剧本上演的方式。

Racine's characters feel compelled to act on their feelings even when they know better.

即使知道该怎么做 也会被迫跟随自我的感觉行事。

So maybe that seems like a lot–because it is–but in Racine's hands, the compressed action works, and actually doesn't seem ridiculous.

剧情看上去似乎有些曲折 因为本身就很曲折 不过在拉辛的笔下 他的压缩工作做得不错 所以实际上并不显得荒谬。