英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—21

 He was the best lyricist. He never made a mistake with a song of mine. And he would come later with the perfect lyric¹ for the song.

 

  He was very successful with women and he was not exactly a good-looking man. He was fat, short, bald. But women, I've seen myself... He was just a killer².

 

  Just off Rio's Copacabana Beach, there's an alleyway that back in the early '60s was the musical hub of Brazil. It was in the bars here that the bossa set got together to play and started to collaborate⁴ with local jazz enthusiasts⁵ like Sergio Mendes. 

 

  Rio was wonderful. There was a bar in the Bottles Bar and that’s where I started, you know, playing there with a trio. And everybody used to come there every night, you know, ?????/ and there was a club on the end of the street called The Little Club. And there, we would do jam sessions there and every jazz musician that would come to Rio would stop by. And, you know, it was just wonderful, wonderful times, you know, the early '60s in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.

 

  Jazz had been one of the influences on bossa and now jazz and bossa began to mix, a fusion⁶ helped by the US State Department when it sponsored jazz musicians like Charlie Byrd and Herbie Mann to visit Brazil where inevitably⁷ they would end up playing in Bottles' Alley³.

 

  I think the reason that jazz musicians like bossa nova is because every voice follows a path and it makes sense, not only the melody, but the harmonies also, singing the song also. It 's because it came from classical music. The way to spread the voice is around, you know, the chromatics.

 

  When Charlie Byrd returned home to the States, he enthused about bossa to his friend, the saxophonist, Stan Getz.

 

1 lyric   

n.抒情诗，歌词；adj.抒情的

参考例句：

• This is a good example of Shelley's lyric poetry.这首诗是雪莱抒情诗的范例。
• His earlier work announced a lyric talent of the first order.他的早期作品显露了一流的抒情才华。

2 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

3 alley   

n.小巷，胡同；小径，小路

参考例句：

• We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
• The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。

4 collaborate   

vi.协作，合作；协调

参考例句：

• The work gets done more quickly when we collaborate.我们一旦合作，工作做起来就更快了。
• I would ask you to collaborate with us in this work.我们愿意请你们在这项工作中和我们合作。

5 enthusiasts   

n.热心人，热衷者( enthusiast的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A group of enthusiasts have undertaken the reconstruction of a steam locomotive. 一群火车迷已担负起重造蒸汽机车的任务。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored. 一群热心人计划修复这架飞机。 来自新概念英语第二册

6 fusion   

n.溶化；熔解；熔化状态，熔和；熔接

参考例句：

• Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc. 黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。
• This alloy is formed by the fusion of two types of metal.这种合金是用两种金属熔合而成的。

7 inevitably   

adv.不可避免地；必然发生地

参考例句：

• In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去，毫无疑问是会散伙的。
• Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。