Ruth Saint Denis and Isadora Duncan were at the center of attention in modern dance.

露丝·圣丹尼斯和伊莎多拉·邓肯是现代舞的焦点人物。

Isadora Duncan had very liberal ideas for the time. She believed in equal rights for women.

就那个时代而言，艾莎道拉·邓肯拥有着非常自由的思想。她认为女性应有平等权利。

The kind of dancing Isadora wanted to do was new and different from other dances at the time.

艾莎道拉想跳的那种舞蹈是一种全新的舞蹈，不同于那个时候的其他舞种。

Isadora was greatly saddened by this. For a while she thought she would never dance again.

艾莎道拉非常悲伤。有一段时间，她认为自己再也不会跳舞了。

When she was eighteen years old, Isadora urged her mother to move to Chicago and then to New York.

18岁的时候，艾莎道拉劝她的母亲搬到芝加哥，然后去纽约。

Young Isadora believed this was all the education she needed. She did not attend school for very long.

小艾莎道拉认为这就是她所需要的教育。她很久都没去学校。

Isadora Duncan arrived in London. She visited the British Museum every day for several months.

艾莎道拉·邓肯来到伦敦。连续几个月她都会去英国博物馆。

Isadora Duncan is remembered as the mother of modern dance. But she is also remembered for the tragedy in her life.

艾莎道拉·邓肯是现代舞之母。但是她的悲剧人生同样为人所记。

In the beginning of the twentieth century, women like Isadora Duncan and Ruth Saint Denis wanted to create a new form of dance.

20世纪初，伊莎多拉·邓肯和露丝·圣丹尼斯等女性想要创造一种新的舞蹈形式。

Sometimes Isadora Duncan was paid to dance in the homes of wealthy people or at parties they gave in their gardens.

有时艾莎道拉·邓肯会去一些富人家中或花园舞会上跳舞。

The family was very poor. Isadora taught dance lessons to local children to earn extra money. She began teaching when she was only five years old.

家里很穷。艾莎道拉给当地的小孩子上舞蹈课挣外快。5岁的时候，她就开始教小朋友了。

In nineteen thirteen, Isadora's two children, Deirdre and Patrick, along with their nurse, were drowned in the Seine River in Paris.

1913年，艾莎道拉的两个孩子迪尔德丽和帕特里克以及他们的保姆被淹死在巴黎塞纳河中。

Isadora Duncan was often asked to explain her style of dancing and to say how dance as an art might change over time.

艾莎道拉·邓肯经常被问到她的舞蹈风格并解释随着时代发展，如何将舞蹈作为一种艺术。

Isadora spent most of her teen-aged years in the San Francisco area. She continued to teach dancing classes, mostly to young girls.

艾莎道拉的青少年时期都在旧金山度过。她继续教孩子跳舞，大部分是年轻的女孩。

Her parents' marriage ended in divorce when Isadora was three years old. Isadora and her brothers and sister were raised by their mother, Mary.

3岁的时候，她的父母离婚了。母亲玛丽抚养着艾莎道拉和她的兄弟姐妹。

Isadora Duncan moved on to Paris, Berlin, Vienna and the other great cities of Europe. She danced and opened dancing schools.

艾莎道拉·邓肯在巴黎、柏林、越南和其他欧洲城市都住过。她跳舞并开设舞蹈学校。

In the late nineteen twenties, Isadora Duncan's dancing career was over. People began to think of her as a sad person whose best days were gone.

上世纪90年代末，艾莎道拉·邓肯的舞蹈事业结束了。人们开始认为她是一个可悲的人，光彩的日子已经不在了。

Isadora Duncan did not like ballet. She said that ballet dancers had too many rules to follow about how they should stand and bend and move.

艾莎道拉·邓肯不喜欢芭蕾。她说芭蕾舞者的那些站姿、弯腰和动作规矩太多。

In nineteen twenty-seven, her life ended suddenly. Isadora Duncan was in Nice, France. She was riding in a car that had the roof down.

1927年，她突然去世。艾莎道拉·邓肯当时在法国尼斯。她开着敞篷车。

Isadora wanted to make dancing her life's work. And she wanted to live by her own rules, not by what other people thought was right or wrong.

艾莎道拉想将舞蹈作为她的终身事业。她想按照自己的方式生活，不想让别人告诉她什么是正确的什么是错误的。