a Streetcar Named Desire

Scene one

The exterior of a two-storey corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river. The section is poor but unlike corresponding[对应的] sections in other American cities, it has a raffish[放荡不羁的] charm. The houses are mostly white frame,weathered grey, with rickety[快要散架的] outside stairs and galleries and quaintly[古怪的] ornamented gables. This building contains two flats, upstairs and down. Faded white stairs ascend to the entrances of both. It is first dark of an evening early in May. The sky that shows around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost turquoise[蓝绿色], which invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates[稀释] the atmosphere of decay. You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences[香气] of bananas and coffee. A corresponding air is evoked by the music of Negro entertainers at a bar-room around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played with the infatuated[着迷的] fluency of brown fingers. This ‘blue piano’ expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here.

P3

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire,and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at-Elysian[极乐世界] Fields!