英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命(3)

The military strike in 64 was the worst thing that ever could happen to this country, because until today, we have never recovered from that.

在64年的军事打击可能是有史以来发生在这个国家最糟糕的事情,因为直到今天,我们还从来没有恢复过来。

It was bad times.

这是糟糕的时期。

It was bad times.

这是糟糕的时期。

But at the same time, I think that the opposite of that was,that it was very creative.

但同时,我认为相反的是,这很有创意。

The military coup¹ split² the Brazilian music scene.

军事政变改变了巴西的音乐格局。

Many leading Brazilian performers had left the country to take advantage of the continuing bossa nova craze in the United States.

许多领先的巴西表演者已经离开这个国家前往美国继续利用波萨诺瓦的狂热。

Those who remained were divided between musicians who ignored politics and left-wingers, who argued that bossa nova should change to represent the realities of the new Brazil.

那些人仍然在被分称忽视政治的音乐家及感觉波萨诺瓦应该更改为代表新巴西现实的左翼人士之间。

The form was OK.

形式没有问题。

But now we have to add something, and that was the content, some content in the, that we just couldn't speak only about love and flower, and the smile.

但是现在我们必须添加的东西就是内容,有些内容非加入不可，我们不能只讲关于爱情，花朵及微笑。

Bossa nova would only talk about the sea, and we thought that we should have more social content inside the lyrics³.

波萨诺瓦只会谈论大海,我们认为在歌词中应该有更多的社交内容。

Nara Leao, who'd been known as the Muse⁴ of bossa nova, became the face of this new protest movement.

曾被称为波萨诺瓦艺术女神的纳拉·莱奥开始站出来面对这项新的抗议活动。

Instead of singing about love and the sea, she now chose songs about hardship or a lament⁵ written by a black singer from the northern farmlands.

不是唱关于爱情和大海,她现在选择来自北方农田一位黑人歌手所创作的艰难困苦或悲伤歌曲。

1 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。

2 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。

3 lyrics   

n.歌词

参考例句：

• music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
• The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。

4 muse   

n.缪斯（希腊神话中的女神），创作灵感

参考例句：

• His muse had deserted him,and he could no longer write.他已无灵感，不能再写作了。
• Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President.很多报纸都在揣测总统的命运。

5 lament   

n.悲叹，悔恨，恸哭；v.哀悼，悔恨，悲叹

参考例句：

• Her face showed lament.她的脸上露出悲伤的样子。
• We lament the dead.我们哀悼死者。