英语笑话听力+文本：这是你被称为指挥的原因

[00:25.41]Percussion¹ 敲击
[00:29.15]Rehearsal² 排练
[00:33.48]Dumb 呆傻
[00:37.30]Conductor 指挥
[00:42.07]英文原文
[00:43.24]I was percussion major when I was in college,
[00:46.08]and during a rehearsal of the student orchestra,
[00:48.48]my section kept making mistakes.
[00:50.42]"When you're too dumb to play anything,"
[00:52.60]the professor conducting us sneered³,
[00:54.15]"they give you a couple of sticks,
[00:55.61]put you in the back and call you a percussionist⁴."
[00:58.03]A friend next to me whispered,
[00:59.53]"And if you're too dumb to hang on to both sticks,
[01:01.51]they put you in the front and call you a conductor."
[01:08.04]中文大意
[01:51.69]逐句对照
[01:55.25]I was percussion major when I was in college,
[01:58.04]and during a rehearsal of the student orchestra,
[02:00.53]my section kept making mistakes.
[02:13.28]"When you're too dumb to play anything,"
[02:15.28]the professor conducting us sneered,
[02:23.40]"they give you a couple of sticks,
[02:25.06]put you in the back and call you a percussionist."
[02:35.39]A friend next to me whispered,
[02:36.67]"And if you're too dumb to hang on to both sticks,
[02:38.64]they put you in the front and call you a conductor."
[02:55.52]多学一点
[02:59.82]percussion 碰撞，敲击
[03:03.48]percussion major 打击乐专业
[03:07.47]rehearsal 排练
[03:10.79]A rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding.
[03:17.39]rehearsal
[03:19.05]rehearse
[03:23.23]dumb
[03:35.92]傻的
[03:37.71]He is so dumb.
[03:40.86]conductor 乐队指挥
[03:50.88]重新听一次故事原文
[03:53.42]I was percussion major when I was in college,
[03:55.88]and during a rehearsal of the student orchestra,
[03:58.18]my section kept making mistakes.
[04:00.24]"When you're too dumb to play anything,"
[04:02.23]the professor conducting us sneered,
[04:04.00]"they give you a couple of sticks,
[04:05.48]put you in the back and call you a percussionist."
[04:07.66]A friend next to me whispered,
[04:09.20]"And if you're too dumb to hang on to both sticks,
[04:11.34]they put you in the front and call you a conductor."

这是你被称为指挥的原因

上大学时我学的是打击乐专业。在学生管弦乐队的一次排练过程中，我们打击乐的那部分乐手老是出错。 “当你愚蠢到什么都演奏不出来时”， 正在指挥我们演奏的教授嘲笑说，“他们就给你一、两根棒棒，然后把你放到后面，把你称为打击乐手”。坐在我身边的一个朋友跟我小声耳语，“如果你傻到两根棒棒都拿不好，他们就把你弄到前面去，把你称为指挥”。

1 percussion   

n.打击乐器；冲突，撞击；震动，音响

参考例句：

• In an orchestra,people who play percussion instruments sit at the back.在管弦乐队中，演奏打击乐器的人会坐在后面。
• Percussion of the abdomen is often omitted.腹部叩诊常被省略。

2 rehearsal   

n.排练，排演；练习

参考例句：

• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
• You can sharpen your skills with rehearsal.排练可以让技巧更加纯熟。

3 sneered   

讥笑，冷笑( sneer的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He sneered at people who liked pop music. 他嘲笑喜欢流行音乐的人。
• It's very discouraging to be sneered at all the time. 成天受嘲讽是很令人泄气的。

4 percussionist   

n.打击乐器演奏者

参考例句：

• She overcame her deafness and eventually became a successful percussionist. 她克服了耳聋的毛病，最后当了打击乐队敲打手。 来自辞典例句
• For many years I practiced these techniques as a professional percussionist in jazz and new music. 许多年来作为一个职业的爵士乐和新音乐演奏者我不断实践着。 来自互联网