英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—11

 I think we were playing exactly what the Beatles did. We were, we thought that we were playing rock'n'roll, you know. I think Brazil is such a kaleidoscope of information, especially then. There was no information, so we used to pick up music from, thanks to BBC, via the shortwaves. And we used to get the Beatles, you know, and although scant¹, because there was nothing available. And so it was very hard to really understand what was going on. So we painted it the way we saw it. 

 

  Tropicalia upset the military, the left, and survivors² from the bossa nova movement, who regarded these newcomers as decidedly inferior. 

 

But I don't think there is a blossoming of culture like in bossa nova. I don't call bossa nova a movement, because there was no manifest. There was no intention. Everything was very spontaneous. But Tropicalia was a movement. They had a manifest. They had an idea in their heads. But the idea of Tropicalia never won anything, never went too far. 

 

  The left-wing artists and critics, they reacted against us. They thought we were selling out, becoming commercial, and approving the American imperialism³ through admitting mass culture, rock'n'roll, counterculture and all this stuff, you know, Hollywood.

 

  So where did Tropicalia find an audience? Tom Ze argued that its followers⁴ came from a quite different section of Brazilian society, who were open to new ideas. 

1 scant   

adj.不充分的，不足的；v.减缩，限制，忽略

参考例句：

• Don't scant the butter when you make a cake.做糕饼时不要吝惜奶油。
• Many mothers pay scant attention to their own needs when their children are small.孩子们小的时候，许多母亲都忽视自己的需求。

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 imperialism   

n.帝国主义，帝国主义政策

参考例句：

• They held the imperialism in contempt.他们鄙视帝国主义。
• Imperialism has not been able to subjugate China.帝国主义不能征服中国。

4 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。