darren snow, an english teacher in beijing, talked about his experience as a busker.

　　在北京做英语教师的戴润·斯诺讲述了他当街头艺人的经历。

　　——darren, tell us about your busking experience.

　　——戴润，跟我们说说你的街头艺人经历吧。

　　darren: my busking experience is quite limited but it's been quite good. once, i backpacked around europe and i brought an acoustic guitar with me. my plan was to make the money i needed to get-by, by busking. this was quite an ambitious plan. it didn't quite work out like that. but i did busk in a few cities.

　　戴润：我街头表演的经历不是很多，但却相当不错。有一次，我轻装环游欧洲，随身带着一把原声吉他。我打算通过街头表演来赚足我需要的旅行费。这个计划过于雄心勃勃。结果与其有很大出入。不过，我还是在一些城市的街头进行了表演。

　　i normally found it was harder in the established busking areas, to get a spot, because there were people who were there everyday. especially in tourist cities because there's a lot of people passing by and they have spare money because they are on holidays. there would usually be a pedestrian street where people busked and they would become quite established. they'd do it there everyday and they'd make quite good money doing it. they weren't that enamoured with a young guy coming in and sitting down with a guitar and stealing their business.

　　我通常会发现，很难在一些约定俗成的街头表演区中觅得一席之地，因为有一些人每天都会去那里。尤其是在旅游城市，原因是，有很多人只是路过，由于他们是在度假，所以对钱很节省。通常会有一条步行街，人们聚集在那里表演街头艺术，并会变得小有名气。他们会每天在那里表演，而他们表演的收入也是相当不错的。如果某个年轻人来到这里，坐下就开始弹奏吉他，并抢走他们的生意的话，他们就不那么高兴了。