VOA慢速英语听力 EDUCATION REPORT（WORD文本英汉互译）：1210A.doc

1、标题：voa慢速英语讲解附字幕:贝丝洛马克斯霍斯将民间音乐发扬光大对应音频：1210a.mp3听力内容：Bess Lomax Hawes,88,Brought Folk Music to a Wider PublicThis is the VOA Special English Education Report.Bess Lomax Hawes was an American folk musician, singer and teacher who died last month at the age of eighty-eight.She came from a family of mus

2、ic historians. She helped her father and brother, John and Alan Lomax, collect folk music. John Lomax developed an Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.In the nineteen forties, after college, Bess Lomax joined the Almanac Singers, a group that sang social protest songs. Other mem

3、bers included Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Butch Hawes, who became her husband.The family later moved to California, where Bess taught music, including guitar and banjo. She also became an anthropology professor at what is now California State University, Northridge.In the nineteen seventies, she

4、worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Later, she directed the folk arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts. She received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton in nineteen ninety-three.Daniel Sheehy is acting head of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Her

5、itage at the Smithsonian. He worked with her and remembers how she worked to keep folk traditions from being lost.DANIEL SHEEHY: Finding ways to help those voices, those songs, those stories, those craft traditions make it into the lives of a much broader public.Bess Lomax Hawes may be best remember

6、ed for a song from nineteen forty-nine. She and Jacqueline Steiner took old music and wrote new words in support of a Progressive Party candidate for mayor of Boston, Massachusetts. One of Walter OBriens promises was to fight a fare increase on the transit system then known as the M.T.A.The song is

7、about Charlie, a man who does not have enough money to leave the train, so he has to ride forever. Here are Bess Lomax, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger:(MUSIC)The candidate lost. But the M.T.A. song later became a huge hit with a version by the Kingston Trio.(MUSIC)And thats the VOA Special English Ed

8、ucation Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Im Steve Ember.贝丝·洛马克斯·霍斯是一位美国民间音乐家，歌手和教师，于上月去世，享年88岁。她来自一个音乐历史学家家庭。她帮助自己的父亲和哥哥，John和Alan Lomax搜集民间音乐。Alan Lomax编纂了一份美国民间音乐档案，保存在国会图书馆。四十年代大学毕业之后，贝丝·洛马克斯·霍斯加入Almanac Singers(年历歌手)。该乐队主要演唱一些社会抗议歌曲。其他成员包括伍迪·格思里, 皮特·西

9、格和鲍尔温·霍斯。鲍尔温·霍斯后来成为她的丈夫。这个家庭后来迁往加利福尼亚，贝丝在那里教音乐，包括吉他和班究琴。同时，她还成为加州州立大学北岭分校一名人类学教授。七十年代，她在华盛顿史密森学会工作。随后，她负责领导国家艺术基金会(National Endowment for the Arts) 民间艺术项目。1993年，她获得比尔·克林顿总统颁发的“国家艺术勋章” (National Medal of Arts)。Daniel Sheehy是史密森学会民间生活和文化遗产中心的代理负责人。他曾与Bess Lomax Hawes一起工作。他回忆了贝丝&mi

10、ddot;洛马克斯·霍斯怎样努力工作，避免民间传统丢失的情景。Daniel Sheehy：“寻找方法来帮助那些声音，那些歌曲，那些故事，那些工艺传统，使它们更广泛地融入公众生活中。”贝丝·洛马克斯·霍斯最广为人知的可能就是1949年的一首歌曲。他和Jacqueline Steiner为老的音乐填词，支持美国进步党候选人竞选马萨诸塞州波士顿市长。Walter OBrien的其中一个承诺就是增加运输系统M.T.A的费用。这首歌是关于一个名叫Charlie的男子的。他没有足够的钱来离开火车，所以只能一直行驶下去。下面就是伍迪·格思里, 皮特&m

11、iddot;西格和贝丝·洛马克斯·霍斯的演唱：……这位候选人最终失败了。但是这首名叫“M.T.A.”的歌曲由Kingston Trio演唱的版本成为打榜热歌。1.collect v.收集,聚集,集中,搜集例句：He collected all the waste paper in the basket.他将所有废纸收集于一篓内。The boy was sorting the foreign stamps he had collected.那男孩在整理他所收集的外国邮票。2.anthropology n.人类学例句：I believe he

12、 has started reading up anthropology.我相信他已开始深入研究人类学。The anthropology of the future will not be concerned above all else with primitives.未来的人类学不会以原始人为主要的研究对象。3.acting a.代理的,临时的,演出用的例句：They will continue Mr. Kabe as acting principal of the school.他们将继续让凯布先生做该校代理校长。John was acting chairman at the meeti

13、ng.约翰是会议的代理主席。4.archive n.档案,档案室,历史性文件5.version n.版本,翻译;说法，看法例句：A modern version of such a collection.这样一个故事集的现代版本1.In the nineteen forties, after college, Bess Lomax joined the Almanac Singers, a group that sang social protest songs.a group是Almanac Singers的同位语，that引导定语从句，修饰a group。2.He worked with

14、her and remembers how she worked to keep folk traditions from being lost.prevent.from,keep.from还有stop……from 这三个句式的意义都是：阻止……做……或阻止某事的发生，而protect.from是表示保护……不受伤害prevent.from 和stop%from 用在主动语态中from可以省略。 keep.from在表示此意时，from不可以省略。keep…&helli

15、p;doing 是使……处在……状态中的意思。 prevent.from,keep.from还有stop……from 这三个句式中from后面的动词与from前面的词构成动宾关系时，后面用动名词的被动形式。 We must prevent the water from being polluted. What stopped him from coming here. The heavy rain kept us from coming on time. I am sorry to have kept you

16、waiting. You had better wear sunglasses to protect your eyes from the sun.关于keep的其他短语：keep back阻止,阻挡;隐瞒,保留keep down控制,压制,镇压;压低,放低(声音)keep from使.不(做)keep off不接近,避开keep on继续不断,保持keep out of躲开,置身.之外keep to坚持,保持keep up保持,维持;继续进行,坚持keep up with向.看齐,跟上.3.She and Jacqueline Steiner took old music and wrote

17、 new words in support of a Progressive Party candidate for mayor of Boston, Massachusetts.in support of支持例句：The judge quoted various cases in support of his opinion.那位法官引证不同的案例以支持他的意见。证明…正确例句：Ill mention some facts in support of my argument.我要举出几个事实来证明我的理论。1941年，皮特·西格与米勒德·兰佩尔（Mi

18、llard Lampell）和来自阿肯色州的李·海斯（Lee Hays）成立“年历歌手”的团体，用他们的歌声来演唱时事，支持工会并宣传反战。年历歌手经常有许多不固定的成员加入演唱，包括伍迪·格思里、贝丝·洛马克斯·霍斯（Bess Lomax Hawes）、鲍尔温·霍斯（Baldwin Butch Hawes）、西丝·坎宁安（Sis Cunningham）、乔什·怀特（Josh White）和山姆·加里（Sam Gary）。西格在年历歌手里的演唱采用笔名“Pete Bowers”以为了不让人由他的名字联想到为政府工作的父亲。由于年历歌手的许多成员都信仰共产主义，同情工人运动，反对美国参战，西格就是其中坚定的一位。随着纳粹进攻苏联，共产党也转为支持参战，年历歌手开始演唱反法西斯歌曲。西格模仿格思里在班卓琴上刻下了“This machine surrounds hate and force it to suttender”（这件乐器将战胜仇恨）。年历歌手的演唱不同于传统民歌，开辟了民歌演唱的新形式。年历歌手由于FBI策划的舆论阻扰，不断深究他们初期的反战唱片，以致年历歌手在1942年解散。