自考英语二课文译文习题 Unit 5

自考英语二课文译文习题

新 音 乐

The new music was built out of materials already in existence: blues, rock'n'roll, folk music. But although the forms remained, something completely new and original was made out of these older elements -- more original, perhaps, than even the new musicians themselves yet realize. The transformation took place in 1966--1967. Up to that time, the blues had been an essentially black medium. Rock'n'roll, a blues derivative, was rhythmic dance music. Folk music, old and modern, was popular among college students. The three forms remained musically and culturally distinct, and even as late as 1965, none of them were expressing any radically new states of consciousness. Blues expressed black soul; rock was the beat of youthful energy; and folk music expressed anti-war sentiments as well as love and hope.

新音乐是根据已有的音乐素材创立的，这些音乐素材包括布鲁斯音乐、摇滚乐、美国民间音乐。新音乐虽然形式没有变化，但是在上述几种较早的音乐的基础上。它的创作有独道崭新的东西；可能有些特色连新音乐派自己都尚未意识到。新音乐的产生是在1966年至1967年间。从根本上说，布鲁斯音乐一直到那个时候都是在表露黑人的情感。布鲁斯音乐的派生品摇滚乐是节奏感很强的伴舞音乐，而民间音乐无论老歌新曲在大学生中颇受欢迎。这三种音乐无论从音乐本身而言还是从文化角度而言都各有特色；但直到1965年，三种风格的音乐对人们对社会的全新意识都未作表达：布鲁斯音乐展示了黑人的思想情感；摇滚乐表现的是青年人的勃勃活力；而民间音乐既表露了人们的爱与希望，也表达他们的反战情绪。

In 1966 -- 1967 there was spontaneous transformation. In the United States, it originated with youthful rock groups playing in San Francisco. In England, it was led by the Beatles, who were already established as an extremely fine and highly individual rock group. What happened, as well as it can be put into words, was this. First, the separate musical traditions were brought together. Bob Dylan and the Jefferson Airplane played folk rock, folk ideas with a rock beat. White rock groups began experimenting with the blues. Of course, white musicians had always played the blues, but essentially as imitators of the Negro style; now it began to be the white bands’ own music. And all of the groups moved towards a broader eclecticism and synthesis. They freely took over elements from jazz, from American country music, and as time went on from even more diverse sources. What developed was a music readily taking on various forms and capable of an almost limitless range of expression.

1966到 1967年的音乐有了自发性转变 在美国，这种转变源于在旧金山演出的几个青春气息很浓的摇滚乐队。在英国则是披头士乐队挂帅。这个披头士乐队此时已经发展成了一个非常精良的、非常有自己特色的摇滚乐团。发生的转变，如尽量用语言表述出来是这样的：首先，音乐人把各种音乐流派综合到一起。鲍勃·迪伦和杰菲逊飞机演奏民间摇滚（伴有摇滚乐节奏的民间风格的音乐）。白人摇滚乐队开始试