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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 21 Music      Lesson 81
[00:07.00]1 Dialogue
[00:11.08]Mary and Rik are discussing plans for the music for a party in the country.
[00:14.64]玛丽和里克在讨论乡村聚会演奏音乐的计划.
[00:18.21]RIK:Have you decided what music you'd like us to play at the party?
[00:20.88]你已经决定在聚会上要我们演奏什么音乐了吗?
[00:23.56]MARY:Oh,at the end some songs that everyone's familiar with,
[00:26.45]哦,终场时演奏一些大家都熟悉的歌曲,
[00:29.34]then they can join in.Can you play jazz?
[00:32.21]那样他们都能参加.你们能演奏爵士音乐吗?
[00:35.08]RIK:Of course we can. Our job is playing all kinds of music.
[00:38.11]当然能啦.我们的工作就是演奏各种音乐.
[00:41.14]MARY:Well,I think at the beginning
[00:43.38]好啦,我想开始时.
[00:45.61]we'd rather have some fairly quiet and peaceful music.
[00:48.48]我们宁可听些柔和舒缓的音乐.
[00:51.36]I'd prefer them not to play too loudly at the beginning.
[00:54.14]我宁可他们开始时演奏的音量不要太大.
[00:56.92]Otherwise we won't be able to hear ourselves talk.
[00:59.60]否则我们就听不到我们彼此间的谈话了.
[01:02.28]RIK:Maybe some folk songs to start with?
[01:04.31]也许先演奏些民歌?
[01:06.35]MARY:Yes.And then after supper some jazz or pop so that people can dance.
[01:10.16]可以.晚餐后来点爵士音乐或流行歌曲,好让人们跳舞.
[01:13.98]How many musicians are you bringing?
[01:16.00]你打算带多少音乐师来呢?
[01:18.03]RIK:I've decided to bring seven.
[01:19.91]我决定带7位.
[01:21.79]The people performing all play different instruments
[01:26.75]and three of them sing too.
[01:28.67]参加演出的人都要演奏不同的乐器.其中三人也唱歌.
[01:30.59](Later)MARY:What's your favourite kind of music?
[01:33.17]后来你最喜欢什么样的音乐?
[01:35.74]RIK:I like folk music.I write my own songs and I play the guitar as well.
[01:39.47]我喜欢民间音乐.我自己作词,我也弹吉他.
[01:43.21]MARY:How many instruments do you play?
[01:45.53]你会演奏多少种乐器?
[01:47.86]RIK:I play the guitar,piano and jazz violin.
[01:50.69]我弹吉他,钢琴和拉爵士小提琴.
[01:53.53]MARY:Is that hard?I mean,the jazz violin?
[01:56.19]弹奏难吗?我意思是说拉爵士小提琴.
[01:58.86]RIK:Yes.You have to practise a lot.
[02:00.97]难.你得多练.
[02:03.09]Lesson 82  2 Reading comprehension
[02:15.34]MUSIC
[02:17.98]There are two important kinds of music in the world
[02:20.80]--世界上有两种音乐
[02:23.62]one is written down and the other is not.
[02:26.10]一类是有文字记载的,另一类是没有文字记载的.
[02:28.58]Many people earn their living by writing music.
[02:31.25]许多人靠写词作曲来谋生.
[02:33.91]They write songs for pop starts and music for films and TV plays.
[02:37.78]他们给通俗歌星创作歌曲.为电影和电视剧作曲.
[02:41.65]They usually write exact instructions how the music is to be played.
[02:45.22]他们通常还要为如何演奏他们的音乐写出精确的说词.
[02:48.80]Folk music has been passed down from one generation to another.
[02:51.89]民间音乐是一代一代地流传下来的.
[02:54.97]At first it was never written down.
[02:57.15]起初从来没有人把它写下来.
[02:59.33]People learnt the songs from their famlies,relatives,
[03:02.11]人们学习唱歌是从他们的家人,亲戚,
[03:04.89]neighbours and friends in the same village.
[03:07.26]邻居和朋友在同一个村庄.
[03:09.62]These songs were about country life,the seasons,animals and plants,
[03:13.45]歌曲内容是有关乡村生活季节,动植物
[03:17.28]and about love and sadness in people's lives.
[03:20.06]以及人们生活中的爱情和忧伤.
[03:22.84]Early performers of music were popular and respected.
[03:25.68]早期的音乐演奏家是深受人们的欢迎和爱戴的.
[03:28.51]They used to learn hundreds of songs by heart.
[03:31.08]他们牢记几百首歌曲.
[03:33.66]On festivals they used to act and sing in praise of heroes
[03:40.32]who lived long ago.
[03:42.09]在节日里,他们表演并歌颂很久以前的英雄.
[03:43.87]This was at a time when there was no radio,TV or cinema.
[03:47.29]这是广播,电视或电影出现以前的情形.
[03:50.71]Many of the country people could neither read nor write.
[03:53.39]当时许多乡下人不识字也不会写字.
[03:56.07]In this way stories were passed on from one person to another.
[03:59.31]故事就是以这种方式流传下来的.