TED演讲 :信任乐队(3)

 It's called U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha literally¹ Carmen of Khayelitsha. 这个电影叫U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha就是卡雅利沙的卡门。

I want to play you a tiny clip of it now for no other reason than to give you proof positive  我给各位演奏一小段只是想向您展示，

that there is nothing tiny about South African music making.  南非的音乐创作是非常伟大的。

Something which I find utterly² enchanting³ about South African music making is that it's so free. 我感受到了南非音乐创作中迷人的是其自由性。

South Africans just make music really freely.  南非人自由地创造音乐。

And I think, in no small way,  我认为主要是，

that's due to one fundamental fact:  由于一个重要事实：

they're not bound to a system of notation⁴.  他们不受谱号的约束。

They don't read music.  他们从不读音乐。

They trust their ears.  他们相信自己的耳朵。

You can teach a bunch of South Africans a tune⁵ in about five seconds flat.  你只教一个南非人5秒的调子。

And then, as if by magic,  然后奇迹般地，

they will spontaneously improvise⁶ a load of harmony around that tune because they can.   他们就能依此即兴创作出和谐的曲子因为他们有这个能力。

1 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

2 utterly   

adv.完全地，绝对地

参考例句：

• Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民，把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
• I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。

3 enchanting   

a.讨人喜欢的

参考例句：

• His smile, at once enchanting and melancholy, is just his father's. 他那种既迷人又有些忧郁的微笑，活脱儿象他父亲。
• Its interior was an enchanting place that both lured and frightened me. 它的里头是个吸引人的地方，我又向往又害怕。

4 notation   

n.记号法，表示法，注释；[计算机]记法

参考例句：

• Music has a special system of notation.音乐有一套特殊的标记法。
• We shall find it convenient to adopt the following notation.采用下面的记号是方便的。

5 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

6 improvise   

v.即兴创作；临时准备，临时凑成

参考例句：

• If an actor forgets his words，he has to improvise.演员要是忘记台词，那就只好即兴现编。
• As we've not got the proper materials,we'll just have to improvise.我们没有弄到合适的材料，只好临时凑合了。