Todd: Eucharia, you are into drama so I thought we would talk about Shakespeare.
托德：尤查里亚，你很喜欢戏剧，所以我想我们可以谈谈莎士比亚。
Todd: Eucharia, you are into drama so I thought we would talk about Shakespeare.
托德：尤查里亚，你很喜欢戏剧，所以我想我们可以谈谈莎士比亚。
Eucharia: Cool!
尤查里亚：太好了！
Todd: First of all, who is Shakespeare?
托德：首先，莎士比亚是谁？
Eucharia: Well, Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights of the world. He was born in 1564 in Stratford on Avon in England which is a really pretty town and he opened the Globe theatre in London I think at some stage but the main thing why Shakespeare is so famous… he had a really short life. Back in those days to make it to 40 was considered old age but in his relatively short life he produced an enormous body of work. He produced historical plays, tragedies, comedies, poetry, sonnets… So he was an extremely prolific writer and I think the reason that he’s so famous even today is because the themes he chose for most of his work were universal. They’re themes that touch us whether we speak English, whether we speak Spanish or Russian, whether we’re in the 21st century or in the 16th century. They’re themes that are eternal and they concern humanity, and have concerned humanity for such a long time.
尤查里亚：莎士比亚是世界上最著名的剧作家之一。他于1564年出生在英国艾冯河畔的美丽小镇斯特拉特福，他曾在伦敦建立了环球剧院，但是莎士比亚如此著名的最主要原因是……他的生命非常短暂。在当时那个年代，活到40岁就已经算长寿了，但是在他相对较短的生命中，他创作了大量的作品。他创作了历史剧、悲剧、喜剧、诗歌、十四行诗等等……所以他是个多产的作家，我认为时至今日他依然这么出名的原因是，他大部分作品中的主题都具有普遍性。无论我们的母语是英语、西班牙还是俄语，无论我们生活在21世纪还是16世纪，这些主题都会打动我们。无论过去多长时间，这些主题都是永恒的，而且充满了人文关怀。
Todd: How much of the English has changed since the original Shakespeare to the Shakespeare we have today, I mean the English we have today?
托德：从莎士比亚原著到今天我们看到的莎士比亚作品，我是说到今天我们使用的英语，英语语言有多少变化？
Eucharia: Well if Shakespeare suddenly appeared in the 21st century he would be almost illiterate
尤查里亚：如果莎士比亚来到21世纪，他可能都不会读写。