With no experience at all, he was being offered the plum part of Billy—the pageboy in a new production of "Sherlock Holmes".
竟获得新编的《歇洛克·福尔摩斯》剧中的小佣人比利一角。
"Sherlock Holmes" opened on July 27, 1903 at the enormous "Pavilion Theatre" Charlie seemed to change overnight.
1903年7月27日《歇洛克·福尔摩斯》新剧在气势恢宏的帕维廉剧院首演，不久外出巡回演出。
It was as if he had found the thing he was meant to do.
查理似乎一夜间发生了巨变，他好似找到了立志从事的事业。
It was, by now, 1908, Charlie was nineteen and he fell in love. Hetty Kelly was only fifteen.
1908年，19岁的查理堕入情网。他所钟情的海蒂·凯年仅十五。
But her parents quashed the the romance before it really begun—but the memory of pretty Hetty stayed with Charlie all his life.
1910年，卓别林所在的卡诺戏班赴美国作一年一度的巡回表演，他被认为是“当地美国人曾经见过的最为出类拔萃的哑剧表演艺术家之一”。
They had reached Philadelphia when a telegram arrived and he was being offered the chance to replace a star in the Keystone film company.
当他们抵达费城时，一纸电文接踵而至，把替换基石电影公司的一位明星的机遇赐于了他。
In an incredibly short time, Charlie had become a very important man in motion picture...
在极短的时间内，他成了电影界的重要人物……
1914年2月，查理主演的处女片上映，影片取名《谋生》 尽管此片由于导演的无能而令查理大失所望，但观众还是喜爱这部片子的。
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