英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—23

 I don't know. In Brazil they said it was a big mess. But I think it was important there. And the most important thing is that many of the musicians / went there to play in the concert. They stayed there and then they began to work around, like Oscar Castro Neves, Sergio Mendes, my father Joao Gilberto/. They stayed.   

  The bossa fraternity began to split¹ with musicians like Jobim now remaining in America, but complaining at the way music had changed.

 

  And we had there the same phenomena² I think you have here now. We had the bossa nova ice box, bossa nova wash...washing machines, bossa nova lawyers, and many things. And now I heard here in the radio bossa nova hair comb, bossa nova shoes! You know, this is not very good for the music.   

 

  Carlos Lyra was also to leave Brazil for Mexico with all the complaints about the new bossa. 

  Some people preferred the bossa nova with lots of jazz. I was the one who thought, you know, that there shouldn't be so much jazz. It was important / the jazz influence in bossa nova, but it shouldn't be too much. We should keep the jazz like a spice in the food. Not too much, otherwise it's gonna burn you. So I wrote a song, Jazz Influence, to talk about that.

 

  By early 1964, the bossa nova boom³ in Brazil was coming to an end. It had moved to America where the best known and / most often recorded bossa song of all time was about to become a massive⁴ hit.

 

1 split   

n.劈开，裂片，裂口；adj.分散的；v.分离，分开，劈开

参考例句：

• Who told you that Mary and I had split up?谁告诉你玛丽和我已经离婚了？
• The teacher split the class up into six groups.老师把班级分成6个小组。

2 phenomena   

n.现象

参考例句：

• Ade couldn't relate the phenomena with any theory he knew.艾德无法用他所知道的任何理论来解释这种现象。
• The object of these experiments was to find the connection,if any,between the two phenomena.这些实验的目的就是探索这两种现象之间的联系，如果存在着任何联系的话。

3 boom   

n.隆隆声；vt.发隆隆声

参考例句：

• The country is having a great boom in industry.这个国家的工业正蓬勃发展。
• Boom!Boom!Boom!A series of explosions shook the valley.轰！轰！轰！一连串爆破声震撼山谷。

4 massive   

adj.巨大的，大规模的，大量的，大范围的

参考例句：

• A massive sea search has failed to find any survivors.经过大规模的海上搜救仍未找到幸存者。
• He drank a massive amount of alcohol.他喝了大量的烈酒。