I always thought a piccolo made a man look silly .
我一直觉得男人一拿短笛就显得傻乎乎的。
Peter ignored him and put the piccolo to his lips and began playing .
彼得没有理睬他，径直将短笛举到唇边开始吹奏。
We could not get them to stop playing peter 's piece , even when I stopped waving the piccolo .
我们根本没法让它们停止演奏彼得的曲子，即使我停止挥舞短笛也没用。
I took the piccolo and , because I didn 't know what else to do , waved it around like a conductor 's baton , vaguely in synch with the whining of the gossamers .
我接过来短笛，因为不知道该怎么做，只得像个指挥似的挥舞起来，大体上应和着薄纱的鸣叫。
Peter was more of the visual artist than I ( his focus was on sculpture ) , so I was surprised when he didn 't go for anything in the box but took out a piccolo and went up to the gossamers .
