【跟着英剧练发音】The Queens Palaces E1-32

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And you can see it when it moves like that, you can get anidea of the shimmering¹ light and how it must have looked with candles burning.

Fantastic little squeaky noise. Oh, it's just stopped. Andwill it? Oh, there it is again. And will it, it won't just keep going?

No, it stops just before it gets to the floor, don't worry.It's very carefully, carefully organised.

And presume if you were sitting underneath² it as a guest,really occasionally you would get a little splat of hot wax on your shoulder?

Well, I suspect you might have done. Only the idea of,honestly, the candle branches have these little drip pans and they weredesigned to catch the hot wax, but nevertheless, I suspect that some ladies mayhave got hot wax on their lovely dresses.

Gosh, look. Amazing to see it at our level.

I know, really close up, the detail. And it gives you a realidea of the size of it, rather than being right up above you.

And it just the engineering that's gone into it.

1 shimmering   

v.闪闪发光，发微光( shimmer的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The sea was shimmering in the sunlight. 阳光下海水波光闪烁。
• The colours are delicate and shimmering. 这些颜色柔和且闪烁微光。 来自辞典例句

2 underneath   

adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面

参考例句：

• Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
• She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。