Not very musical 并非很懂音樂

【課文】

As we had had a long walk through one of the markets of old Delhi, we stopped at a square to have a rest. After a time, we noticed a snake charmer with two large baskets at the other side of the square, so we went to have a look at him. As soon as he saw us, he picked up a long pipe which was covered with coins and opened one of the baskets. When he began to play a tune, we had our first glimpse of the snake. It rose out of the basket and began to follow the movements of the pipe. We were very much surprised when the snake charmer suddenly began to play jazz and modern pop songs. The snake, however, continued to 'dance' slowly. It obviously could not tell the difference between Indian music and jazz!

【課文翻譯】

當我們穿過舊德里的市場時走了很長一段路，我們在一個廣場上停下來休息。過了一會兒，我們注意到廣場的那一邊有一個帶著兩個大筐的耍蛇人，于是就走過去看看。他一見我們，就拿起了一個長長的上面鑲有硬幣的管樂器，并掀開了一個筐的蓋子。當他開始吹奏一支曲子時，我們才第一次看到那條蛇。它從筐里探出身子， 隨著樂器的擺動而扭動。當耍蛇人突然又吹奏起爵士樂和現(xiàn)代流行樂曲時，我們感到非常驚奇。然而那蛇卻還是緩慢地“舞動”著。顯然，它分辨不出印度音樂和爵士樂!

【生詞和短語】

musical adj. 精通音樂的

market n. 市場，集市

snake charmer 玩蛇者(通常借音樂控制)

pipe n. (吹奏的)管樂器

tune n. 曲調

glimpse n. 一瞥

snake n. 蛇

movement n. 動作

continue v. 繼續(xù)

dance v. 跳舞

obviously adv. 顯然

difference n. 差別

Indian adj. 印度的

【知識點講解】

1 we stopped at a square to have a rest.

我們在一個廣場上停下來休息。

stop at 停留，住宿在……，對……有些躊躇

He stopped at the convenience store, and bought a magazine.

他在便利店稍作停留，買了本雜志。

stop to do sth. 停下來去做某事

stop doing sth. 停止做某事

2 after a time 一段時間后，過了片刻

She left the bar after a time.

片刻之后，她離開了酒吧。

3 have a walk/rest

have a+名詞，這個名詞可以與動詞同型，即如果該名詞也可以作動詞，那么have a+名詞這種結構就等于它的動詞意義。類似的結構還有：

have a swim/bath→have a bath=bathe，have a swim=swim

have a look = look

After a long walk on a hot day, I really want to have a bath.

大熱天的在外面走了那么久，我真的很想好好洗個澡。

4 the snake charmer suddenly began to play jazz and modern pop songs.

耍蛇人突然又吹奏起爵士樂和現(xiàn)代流行樂曲。

begin 后面可以接to do，也可以接doing，一般來說而這時可以互換的，但有三種情況例外。

①主語是物而不是人時，必須用to do。如：

It begin to rain.

天開始下雨了。

②begin后面接表示心理活動的詞，如know，believe，wonder，think等詞。

The manager began to think when to quit.

經(jīng)理開始思考什么時候辭職比較好。

③如果begin本身是ing形式，那么為了避免重復，后面接的詞用to do 形式。

He is beginning to sing the song.

他開始唱起這首歌來。

5 he picked up a long pipe.

他拿起長長的管樂器。

pick up 揀起;獲得;收獲

pick sb up：接某人(順路)，meet sb+地點，表示專程接某人

pick up也可表示學習，學會

pick up the radio program(the program on the radio)在廣播上收聽節(jié)目

pick out：挑出來

Lucy begins to pick up Japanese when she enters the workforce.

參加工作之后露西開始學習日語。

6 tell the difference between a and b 說出兩者之間的差異

a be different from b a和b不同

differ v. 后面可加in/ from

It's absolutely impossible to tell the difference between the two rings.

要說出這兩枚戒指的不同之處簡直是不可能的。

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