CHILDREN sing: I love to dance a minuet. Fair ladies in a circle.

我喜欢跳小步舞，大家围成一个圈，淑女就在中央。

It's a famous show right now – its star is a dog who dances the minuet.

现在，这个表演很有火爆—表演明星是只狗，它会跳小步舞曲。

Boring! Minuets are old-fashioned. You need a good beat. Something you can dance to.

没意思！小步舞太过时。你需要有好的节奏感，这样你也能够跳舞。

You can try this at home. So what about the announcements after the minuet?

大家可以在家里试试。二人在跳完“小步舞曲”之后发表了什么声明？

That's one of his minuets! Down there ... at that ball. Look how they dance in a circle.

那是他的一首小步舞曲。到那下面去… … 就是舞会那里。看看他们是怎么跳舞，围成一圈的。

That's one of his minuets! Down there ... at that ball. Look how they dance in a circle.

那是他的一首小步舞曲。到那下面去… … 就是舞会那里。看看他们是怎么跳舞，围成一圈的。

In it, two minstrels were dancing the minuet up to the minute.

在里面，有两个吟游诗人正在跳舞最新式的小步舞。

I don't want to jinx it, but a week from now, I could be learning the steps of the secret minuet.

我不想话说太早触自己霉头，但一周之后，我很有可能就在学习秘密小步舞曲的舞步了呢。

It is the first coast to coast American eclipse in a century. Millions had front row seat for a celestial minuet of moon and sun.

这是一个世纪以来美国海岸到海岸的第一次日食。数以百万计的人坐在前排座位上欣赏月亮和太阳的天体小步舞曲。

But she heard of them from a churchman of the name of Fulgence, who haunted the castle, and swore he had seen those little creatures step out of their glass prisons and dance a minuet.

但她从一个名叫 Fulgence 的教士那里听说过他们， 他经常出没于城堡， 并发誓他看到那些小动物走出他们的玻璃监狱并跳小步舞曲。