They had come to dance for money in the street.

他们在街头跳舞卖。

People play their music and perform, or busk, in the streets.

人们演奏音乐或是在街边沿街卖。

Geisha (meaning art do-er or artist) existed as early as the 7th century in Japan, although the first modern geisha only began to appear in the large cities from the 17th century.

伎（意为卖人或术工作者）早在7世纪就存在于日本，尽管最早现代伎只是在17世纪才开始出现在大城市中。

For most of the 1930s, Robert Johnson moved from his Mississippi Delta stomping grounds, to Memphis and Arkansas, busking on street corners with his acoustic guitar for tips.

在20世纪30年代大部分时间里，罗伯特·约翰逊从密西西比老地方搬到了孟菲斯和阿肯色州，拿着他原声吉他在街卖。

Have you ever done any busking, like working on the street with your hat out?

你有没有在街上卖过，比如帽子放在地上让路人那种？

If you're a singer, for example, or an artist, people often talk about selling out; they're referring to an artist or a singer doing things just to make money rather than to produce good art or good music.

如果你是一名歌手或术家， 人们经常会谈到“卖不卖身”； 他们指是术家或歌手为了赚而做一些事情， 而不是为了创作好术或音乐。

Back in Guatemala, the president of the country, Alejandro Giammattei, was on the highway when he saw another circus doing the same thing the Segovia brothers were doing, busking for money on the side of the road.

回到危地马拉，该国总统亚历杭德罗·贾马太在高速公路上看到另一个马戏团正在做塞戈维亚兄弟同样事情，在路边卖筹。

When they arrived the mountebanks had set up their tent beside the town gate, and an abominable scraping of fiddles and banging of drums announced that the performance had begun.

当他们到达时，卖人已经在城门旁搭起了帐篷，一阵刺耳小提琴刮擦声和喧闹鼓点宣布表演已经开始。

Anyway, so that's where Nick, this promising Stanford student, is now busking, which neither mom nor dad thought was the right thing for me to be doing.

反正，现在尼克——这位前途光明斯坦福学生——正在街头卖，这既不是妈妈也不是爸爸认为我应该做事。

Later on, we are going to be talking to ukulele superstar Taimane, who got her start busking right here in the streets of Waikiki.

稍后， 我们将采访夏威夷尤克里里超级明星塔伊曼，她就是从威基基海滩街头卖开始她音乐生涯。

I ended up with a friend, playing it on the street sometime - you know, busking for money, that sort of thing.

我最终和一个朋友一起在街上玩——你知道，为了而卖，诸如此类。

Opened up? She played you like a Hawaiian on a ukulele.

敞开心扉？她把你 耍得像个卖夏威夷佬。

I guess he could try busking on the street.

我想他可以尝试在街上卖。

He repaired TVs at night, played honky-tonk for 20 bucks a show, started selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door.

他晚上修电视，每场演出挣20美元弹钢琴卖，还开始挨家挨户推销真空吸尘器。

But you were busking, you were out on the streets.

但你当时在街头卖，你在街头表演。

He was a little surprised at their keeping the whole committee waiting to look at a strolling company of mountebanks.

他有点惊讶他们让整个委员会等着去看一帮街头卖杂耍班子。