you ought to have known aunty; she was so lovely. and yet, to be more specific, she wasn't lovely in the usual sense of the word, but she was sweet and charming and funny in her own way - just the type to gossip about when one is in the mood to gossip and be facetious over someone. she should have been put in a play, just because she herself simply lived for the theater and everything that goes on in it. she was so very respectable, even if agent nob, whom aunty called snob, said she was stage-struck.

"the theater is my schoolroom," she said, "my fountain of knowledge. there i have brushed up on my old biblical history. take moses, for instance, or joseph and his brethren - they're operas now. it is from the theater that i've gained my knowledge of world history, geography, and human nature. i've learned about parisian life from french farces - it's naughty, but very interesting. how i have cried over the riquebourg family - to think that the husband had to drink himself to death just so his wife could get her young sweetheart! ah, yes, many's the tear i've shed in the fifty years i've been going to the theater!"

aunty knew every play, every piece of scenery, every actor who came on or ever had come on. she really only lived during the nine months of the theatrical season. a summer without a summer stock company was enough to age her, while an evening at the theater that lasted till past midnight prolonged her life. she didn't say, as people did, "now we will have spring; the stork has come!" or, "there's an item in the paper about the early strawberries!" instead, she announced the coming of autumn, "have you seen that the box office is open? they'll begin the performances soon!"

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作文地带知识拓展:

• 英语（English）属于印欧语系日耳曼语族西日耳曼语支，最早被中世纪的英国使用，并因其广阔的殖民地而成为世界使用面积最广的语言。英国人的祖先盎格鲁部落是后来迁移到大不列颠岛地区的日耳曼部落之一，称为英格兰。这两个名字都来自波罗地海半岛的Anglia。该语言与弗里斯兰语和下撒克森语密切相关，其词汇受到其他日耳曼语族语言的影响，尤其是北欧语（北日耳曼语），并在很大程度上由拉丁文和法文撰写。

  英语的英文释义：

  English 名词 uk  /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ us  /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/

  the language that is spoken in the UK, the US, and in many other countries

  英语

  American/British English

  美式／英式英语

  Do you speak English?

  你会说英语吗？

  English   形容词 adjective   uk  /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ us  /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/

  in or relating to the English language

  英语的

  an English teacher

  英语老师

  relating to or from England

  英格兰的;英国的

  English films/food/people

  英国电影／食品／人

  English law

  英格兰法律