英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—19

 It is a true story, you know, he used to play his… to, to study his guitar and he would study the part of the thumb like this, ting, ting, he would go like that. The thing is there was a cat watching that. And poor cat was just…and he would look at the cat and play ting, ting, ting…for hours, you know, just to exercise his thumb/. And the cat couldn’t resist. The cat jumped out from the eighth floor down there. The cat killed himself.

 

If Joao Gilberto was the greatest bossa performer, and the greatest bossa composer was Antonio Carlos Jobim, better known simply as Tom Jobim who wrote the melodies¹ for many of Joao Gilberto’s hits and was himself an impressive² singer and pianist. 

 

I think that for me, he was the most important songwriter, Brazilian songwriter, because I think that Jobim, he has everything, he has Brazil in itself, I mean he has the mountains, he has the forest, he has the sun…

 

1 melodies   

曲调( melody的名词复数 )； 旋律； 乐曲的音符编排； 美妙的音乐

参考例句：

• The two melodies are played in counterpoint. 用对位法来演奏这两首曲调。
• And now for your further delectation, we present a selection of popular melodies. 为使你们更加愉快，我们奉献给你们一组精选的流行歌曲。

2 impressive   

adj.给人深刻印象的，感人的

参考例句：

• This cinema is so impressive that we can't help crying.这影片如此感人以至我们禁不住流下泪来。
• The suit made him look especially impressive.他穿上这套衣服真精神。