英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—22

 And in April 1962, the two of them released Jazz Samba, reworking Joao Giilberto and Jobim songs like Desafinado. Remarkably¹ for a jazz album, it became a best-seller and stayed in the American charts for a quite astonishing 70 weeks. Bossa nova suddenly became a new American craze.

 

  In the record shops, racks full of bossa nova, authentic² Brazilian style and also translated into American by American bands. Bossa nova at the White House. on stage in the East Room, Paul Winter and his sextet. They came back from a State Department tour of South America, playing a new beat. And that young arbiter³ of the American taste Jacqueline Kennedy gave it her cool blessing⁴.

 

  In November 1962, Brazil's bossa hierarchy⁵, including Gilberto, Jobim, Sergio Mendes and Carlos Lyra, were invited to New York's Carnegie Hall for a legendary⁶ concert in which they performed alongside Jazz musicians like Getz and Byrd. The result is remembered as something of a historic mess.   

 

  It was terrible. The guy who did the concert, sometimes they don't like me to tell the story, but the story/ was just like this. The guy, he didn't care about playing a concert for New Yorker people. He just wanted to do a recording⁷ session in a stage, so he spread microphones all over the stage and they called everybody from Brazil to do the concert. And everybody from New York, whoever wanted to play, would come up and play.

 

  So I went to Jobim and said, Let's go away, let's get you, me, Joao Gilberto and all the people that came here to do something serious, and let's go back home. And Jobim was very funny at that time. I'll never forget, because he said, Carlos, did you sign that paper? I said, Yes, I did sign. In here we cannot do this like in Brazil. In here they have electric chair! You know. And I understood that nobody was gonna go home. I said ok, let’s stay and do what we can.

1 remarkably   

ad.不同寻常地，相当地

参考例句：

• I thought she was remarkably restrained in the circumstances. 我认为她在那种情况下非常克制。
• He made a remarkably swift recovery. 他康复得相当快。

2 authentic   

a.真的，真正的；可靠的，可信的，有根据的

参考例句：

• This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
• Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。

3 arbiter   

n.仲裁人，公断人

参考例句：

• Andrew was the arbiter of the disagreement.安德鲁是那场纠纷的仲裁人。
• Experiment is the final arbiter in science.实验是科学的最后仲裁者。

4 blessing   

n.祈神赐福；祷告；祝福，祝愿

参考例句：

• The blessing was said in Hebrew.祷告用了希伯来语。
• A double blessing has descended upon the house.双喜临门。

5 hierarchy   

n.等级制度；统治集团，领导层

参考例句：

• There is a rigid hierarchy of power in that country.那个国家有一套严密的权力等级制度。
• She's high up in the management hierarchy.她在管理阶层中地位很高。

6 legendary   

adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）

参考例句：

• Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
• Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。

7 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。