时间:2019-02-08 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力:文化博览2008年


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 "Vienna at that time was a marvelous place for young musicians to go to. It has always been a city of pleasure or frivolity 1 right back to the middle ages. The city was the most crowded city in Europe at the time. It had a population of probably around a quarter of a million, and that is about 25 times the size of Bonn. At the top society there would be endless balls, and then musical concerts, and then for the ordinary people in the streets there would be juggling 2 acrobats 3, street music, puppeteers 4, but there was another side to it, as some one described it as a city of frivolity but despairing frivolity."


 
The rulers of Europe were terrified that the French Revolution would spread. In Vienna, the emperor tightened 5 censorship and gave extra powers to the secret police, but instrumental music, the most abstract and least censorable of the arts, flourished.
 
“I think it was recognized from the beginning the extent to which Beethoven was within the whole influence of Mozart and, of course, Haydn, but I think it was also shocking from the beginning what he was doing to that and people really hated it, I mean there was… there is no question about the fact that from the beginning, Beethoven’s style of playing the piano and his style of composing were repellent.”
 
“Comments such as Beethoven’s music was hairbrained, ah, that, it was bizarre that it was really complex, that it jolted 6 the listener out of transports. All of these comments came from musicians.”
 
“The openings of Op(Opus). 10 No.2. As a kind of Haydness quality I mean even that, is sort of more humorous than Haydn's, slightly more rough than Haydn would do but and you know that a little coarser than Haydn, but it still has the Haydn thing, but later in the piece--I mean all that, there was the basic keep going up, I mean that is the real Beethoven trick of, the middle years but he's already using when he was quite young and this sort of tremendous surge of energy that you get in there and this was something that people already complained about in Beethoven, this kind of violence that he was doing.”

n.轻松的乐事,兴高采烈;轻浮的举止
  • It was just a piece of harmless frivolity. 这仅是无恶意的愚蠢行为。
  • Hedonism and frivolity will diffuse hell tnrough all our days. 享乐主义和轻薄浮佻会将地狱扩展到我们的整个日子之中。 来自辞典例句
n.杂技演员( acrobat的名词复数 );立场观点善变的人,主张、政见等变化无常的人
  • I was always fascinated by the acrobats at the circus. 我总是着迷于马戏团里的杂技演员。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The acrobats' performance drew forth applause from the audience. 杂技演员的表演博得了观众的掌声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.操纵木偶的人,操纵傀儡( puppeteer的名词复数 )
收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)变紧; (使)绷紧; 加紧
  • The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
  • His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机,然后又松开了。
(使)摇动, (使)震惊( jolt的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground. 卡车嘎吱嘎吱地在凹凸不平的地面上颠簸而行。
  • She was jolted out of her reverie as the door opened. 门一开就把她从幻想中惊醒。
学英语单词
3-monoiodo-L-tyrosine
adequate gold and foreign exchange reserve
air-separating tank
algebraic deviation
alimlentology
all one
aquileges
atrophie blanche en plaque
audio coils
axial peaking hot spot factor
Beatle boots
beckets
blow pistol
campylorrhynchus
Cape walnut
cardioblast
carfloat
Carthago
cat-astrophe
cell guide
characteristic discharge
cochliodinol
combined pregnancy
commodities option
compiling program
compressed ignition
contingency learning
cooks up
CSPE
cumulative heredity
data-structured coupling
Desert Fox
diagonal filling theorem
digital media renderer
dinaphthylamine
Disporopsis longifolia
drift recorder
duration of oscillation
education social worker
Epimedium dolichostemon
evolutionary zoology
expansion coefficiency
expansion deflection type nozzle
family Ustilaginaceae
fast color salt
fischer esterfication
Flexibacteriaceae
form roller
formale copper wire
futurologists
geyers
goldich
hoisting room
hot gas pipe
hurries along
immunochemiluminometry
jangger (indonesia)
kulcha
link winch
loose-flange joint
master timekeeper
metamodelization
netvibes
nidifying
Nkouda
nonpoisoning
normative philosophies of education
occiude
overlond capacity
ovology
pardaxin
Pithoragarh
range interquartile
reburner
reel drive
republicanising
rolling four-ten
sandemen
sarajevans
screwing those
selective noise-detection circuit
seliness
signophyl
silicon carbide platelet reinforcement
statistical independenet variable
submarium
submersible vehicle
superconductor coaxial cable
template with machined bushings
thotacopagus parasiticus
throw down
Tindale
tretracetate
ubaid
underwater race
upon the anvil
Vannevar Bush
vertical loads
vickys
warm-wet climate
waviness width
went through channels