Chinese fans charmed and puzzled by Bob Dylan

     BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- American music legend Bob Dylan on Wednesday night made a smooth debut¹ in Beijing, heralding² his long-awaited Chinese mainland concerts to mark the energetic(精力充沛的) artist's 50 years on the performance stage.

    Dylan, who will turn 70 in May, played 17 songs ending with "Forever Young" to a nearly packed audience at downtown Beijing's Workers Gymnasium.

    Hundred of mesmerized³ fans clapped and at some points danced to the beat as Dylan band played two encores including the popular "Like A Rolling Stone."Dylan did not talk other than introducing members of the band throughout the two-hour concert.

    "It is the most moving performance I attended recently. You had expected to see a living fossil but instead saw an energetic warrior," Chinese rock star Zheng Jun said in a post on his microblog.

    Cui Jian, dubbed⁴ as China's "Godfather of Rock", was also spotted⁵ in the audience. But he declined to speak to media after the concert.

    The audience are mostly young Chinese Dylan fans in their 20s and 30s and a significant number of older foreigners living in China. Fans were seen clad in Dylan T-shirts while one wearing a cowboy hat.

    More than 5,000-plus tickets, with minimum price set at 280 yuan (43 U.S. dollars), were sold out one day before the concert, according to Gehua Live Nation Entertainment and Sports, the Chinese promoter.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

2 heralding   

v.预示( herald的现在分词 )；宣布（好或重要）

参考例句：

• It is the heralding of a new age of responsibilities. 那预示着一个充满责任的新时期的开始。 来自互联网
• Streaks of faint light were rising, heralding a new day. 几道淡淡的晨曦正在升起，预示新的一天的来临。 来自互联网

3 mesmerized   

v.使入迷( mesmerize的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The country girl stood by the road, mesmerized at the speed of cars racing past. 村姑站在路旁被疾驶而过的一辆辆车迷住了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• My 14-year-old daughter was mesmerized by the movie Titanic. 我14岁的女儿完全被电影《泰坦尼克号》迷住了。 来自互联网

4 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。