英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—2

 (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.

 

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

 

  The military coup¹ split the Brazilian music scene. Many leading Brazilian performers had left the country to take advantage of the continuing bossa nova craze in the United States. 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.

 

  The form was OK. 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. Bossa nova would only talk about the sea, and we thought that we should have more social content inside the lyrics².

 

Nara Leao, who'd been known as the Muse³ of bossa nova, became the face of this new protest movement. Instead of singing about love and the sea, she now chose songs about hardship or a lament⁴ written by a black singer from the northern farmlands.

 

  They used to call her the Muse, but that's wrong, she's not the muse. She was a musician. She could play, she could sing.   

 

  The left-wingers championed what they saw as authentic⁵ Brazilian music, music of the people, that came from the city slums, the favelas, or the countryside, and had no foreign influences. During the '60s, these favelas doubled in size, as more migrants moved from the countryside to the increasingly industrialised city.

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 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。

3 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。

4 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。

5 authentic   

a.真的，真正的；可靠的，可信的，有根据的

参考例句：

• This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
• Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。