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他是个江湖艺人。 He is an itinerant entertainer. | ||
他是个说书的江湖艺人。 He was a wandering storyteller. | ||
马戏团进城了，我们成了一队走错地方的江湖卖艺人。 The circus is in town, and we have become a band of travelling minstrels and misfits. | ||
“江湖”过去泛指四方各地。 The term “rivers and lakes” in old days meant in general all corners of the country. | ||
一些艺人也卷进此案。 Several entertainers were also involved in the case. | ||
夜晚穿着粗罩衫扎着皮裹腿到处游荡的男人，现在学着变戏法和江湖艺人的装束也挽上绸衣，戴上插有羽毛的帽子出来了。 Men who had lounged about all night in smock-frocks and leather leggings came out in silken vests and hats and plumes as jugglers or mountebanks. | ||
他游走江湖，寻找可敬的对手。 He traveled the land in search of worthy foe. | ||
于是扼腕断指，奋笔疾书：相忘于江湖。 So your finger, speed his pen: forget themselves in the rivers and lakes. | ||
格里奥艺人通常是歌手或音乐家。 Griots are often singers or musicians. | ||
那两个孩子，也许是被什么警察收留关进拘留所了，或是被什么江湖艺人拐走了，或者压根儿就是迷失在这个无边无际的巴黎迷宫里了，他们没有回来。 The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return. | ||
