新托福听写训练 第35期

Listen to part of a conversation between two students

W:So,one of the things that I really have in trouble understanding is how jazz music developed tobe so different from many other kinds of music.My class notes are terrible.

M:Well what can't you understand from your notes?

W:Uh...One thing is I copy down the musical training from the blackboard.What did it mean by that?

M:Well most people who become professional¹ musicians to have some kind of formal training inmusic but the first people who play jazz music had almost none.

W:Ok,but so what?Doesn't it just mean that they weren't very good musicians?

M:Well,that's not that the early jazz musicians weren't good.it's they that play their instrumentdifferently.Let's say you are receiving formal instruction in the trumpet².First you would learn the right way to place your mouth and the right way to use your fingers and right way to blow air andthen you will practice single notes and different combination³ of notes until you could do thosecorrectly and only after that which your teacher give you a piece of music to play.W:And the early jazz musician didn't learn to play this way?

M:No,the first people who play jazz music learn to play their instrument by actually trying toplay a song they like!They were humanity⁴ and tried to play themselves on their instruments.Because they were mostly teaching⁵ themselves,they began to express themselves in ways thatformally traditionally⁶ trained musician didn't.In traditional instruction there's one correct way toplay something and everyone who plays try to make the correct sound.But in jazz…

W:In jazz music,there isn't one right way to play.In fact,individual musicians are supposed tointerpret the music in their own style.So you are saying that this aspect of jazz developed becausethe first people who play jazz didn't have any formal music training?

M:Well that's part of it but there is more.What else do you have in your notes?

1 professional   

adj.专业的；职业的；n.专业人员；职业运动员

参考例句：

• He is a professional tennis player.他是一名职业网球运动员。
• I need a professional to sort out my finances.我需要专业人士为我管理财务。

2 trumpet   

n.喇叭，喇叭声；v.吹喇叭，吹嘘

参考例句：

• He plays the violin, but I play the trumpet.他拉提琴，我吹喇叭。
• The trumpet sounded for battle.战斗的号角吹响了。

3 combination   

n.组合，合并，联合；

参考例句：

• He carried on the business in combination with his friends.他与朋友们合伙做生意。
• The materials can be used singly or in combination.这些材料可以单独使用也可以混合用。

4 humanity   

n.人类，[总称]人(性)，人道[pl.]人文学科

参考例句：

• Such an act is a disgrace to humanity.这种行为是人类的耻辱。
• We should treat animals with humanity.我们应该以仁慈之心对待动物。

5 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

6 traditionally   

adv.传说地；传统地

参考例句：

• Traditionally,people clean the house before the Spring Festival.传统上，人们在春节前打扫房子。
• Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year.根据传统，医学奖是诺贝尔奖每年颁发的第一个奖项。