第3单元第1篇详解（新标准第三册）
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How we listen
第一段
①We all listen to
music according to our separate capacities
（ability）. 我们都按照各自不同的能力来听音乐.
②But, for the sake
of analysis, the whole listening process may become clearer if we
break it up into its component parts, so to speak.
为了便于分析,
可以把听的整个过程分成几个组成部分, 那么这个过程会更清晰一些.
Break up: divide into several smaller parts. Break
up the chocolate and melt it.
Component: part, ingredient.
The plan has 4 main components.
A
computer consists of thousands of components.
电脑由成千上万个部件组成。
So to speak:
可以这么说 to draw
attention to the fact that you are describing
Mary is, so to speak, a
hardworking student.
玛丽可说是个用功的学生。
He is, so to speak, a
hardworking student.
他可说是个用功的学生。
The new procedures have been
officially christened, so to
speak.新措施可以说已正式实施了. the new procedures，so to
speak，have
been officially christened.
③In certain sense
we all listen to music on three separate
planes（level, degree）. 从某种意义上来说,我们听音乐有三个不同的层次.
In a sense:
在某一方面，就某种意义来说
In some sense:
在某种意义上
④For lack of a
better terminology, one might name these: 1) the sensuous plane, 2)
the expressive plane, 3) the sheerly musical plane.
由于缺乏更好的术语,我们姑且把它们命名为: (1)感官层次; (2)表现层次; (3)纯音乐层次
Terminology: term, special
words and expressions used in a subject
Sensuous: gives pleasure to the
mind or body through the senses.感官上的
Sheer: complete, pure,
absolute, total, utter
⑤The only
advantage to be gained from mechanically splitting up the listening
process into these hypothetical planes is the clearer view to be
had of the way in which we listen. 把听的过程机械地分
割为以上三个假想的层次,唯一的好处是让我们更清楚地了解自己是怎样听音乐的.
Split: divide into 2 or more parts
Hypothetical: theoretical, imaginary, based on
possible ideas rather than actual ones.
第二段
①The simplest way
of listening to music is to listen for the sheer pleasure of the
musical sound itself.
听音乐最简单的方式是为了去获取乐声带来的纯粹的愉悦感
②That is the
sensuous plane. 这是音乐的感官层次
③It is the plane
on which we hear music without thinking, without considering it in
any way.
在这个层次上,我们只是听音乐,不做任何思考.
④One turns on the
radio while doing something else and absent-mindedly bathes in the
sound.
我们打开收音机,一边做着其他的事情,一边心不在焉地沉浸在音乐中.
Absent-minded
心不在焉的,茫茫然的;健忘的 someone who forgets things or does not pay attention to
what they are doing, often because they are thinking about
something else.
The absent-minded boy is always
losing his books. 这个心不在焉的男孩老是丢书。
He absent-mindedly picked up the
telephone.
Bath in music: be immersed in music; lost in music;
completely involved in; absorb
⑤A kind of
brainless but attractive state of mind is engendered by the mere
sound appeal of the music.
乐声本身的魅力带我们进入一种无需思考的美妙心境.
State: condition,
situation
Engender: produce; cause;
generate; cause a particular feeling, atmosphere, situation to
occur. 产生，引起 Pity engendered love.
怜悯产生爱情
Appeal:
有吸引力,迎合爱好 attract
The idea appealed to Mary.
这主意正合玛丽的心意。
吸引力,感染力 attraction
These subjects have lost their appeal for most
students.这些学科已经失去了吸引力。
第三段
①The surprising
thing is that many people who consider themselves qualified music
lovers abuse that plane in listening.
令人意外的是,许多自认为合格的音乐爱好者在听音乐时过多地使用了这一层次.
Abuse: 滥用,妄用 use something in a wrong way or for a bad purpose;
He abused his power while in office. 他在职时滥用权力。
Drug and alcohol abuse; abuse
of power
虐待,伤害 treat cruelly and violently
Those captives were physically abused.
那些俘虏遭受了肉体上的摧残。
Child abuse; physical abuse; human rights
abuse
②They go to
concerts in order to lose themselves.
他们去听音乐会是为了忘却自我.
③They use music as
a consolation or an escape.
他们把音乐当成一种慰藉,一种逃避
consolation安慰,慰藉;安慰的人(或事物) comfort; console
he consoled himself with the
fact that he is not alone.
It's a consolation to know that they are safe.
知道他们平平安安,使人感到安慰。
④They enter an
ideal world where one doesn’t have to think of the realities of
everyday life.
由此他们进入了一个可以忘却日常生活 的理想世界.
⑤Of course they
aren’t thinking about the music either.
当然,他们也没有在思考音乐.
⑥Music allows them
to leave it, and they go off to a place to dream, dreaming because
of and apropos of the music yet never quite listening to it.
音乐允许他们离开现实,到另一个地方去做梦,因为音 乐而做梦,做有关音乐的梦,却从没有真正欣赏过音乐.
Apropos of:
适当的;切题的;中肯的 connected with; relevant to
