【劲词天天学】
他们曾经风靡世界，引领了整整一个时代。让我们踏上音乐的朝圣之旅，去寻访这支令时代为之震撼的乐队——
关键词：Beatles披头士 Lennon列侬 shot枪击
1. The Beatles were an English rock（adj.摇滚的） band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, and one of the most successful acts in the history of popular music.
披头士是英国的一支摇滚乐队，组团于1960年的利物浦，是流行乐历史上最耀眼的乐队。
记忆要点：one of the most 最···的之一
2. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic（adj.尖刻的） wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism.
乐队主唱——约翰·列侬的音乐、写作、绘画、以及他接受的采访里都流露出他叛逆的天性和犀利的智慧。他的政治与和平行动主义引起社会的一番争议。
记忆要点： reveal 显示出···
3. 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment, Mark Chapman shot Lennon in the back several times . Lennon was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced（v.声明） dead on arrival.
1980年12月8日，当列侬和妻子小野洋子返回纽约的住所时，他的一名歌迷竟在背后朝他连续开枪。列侬被送往到罗斯福医院的路上就已经离开了人世。
记忆要点：was taken to 被送往···
好了，今天我们不学太多，赶紧来欣赏一下披头士的经典歌曲《Hello Goodbye》！
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Today Topic: Jazz Music 我爱爵士乐
Today Vocabulary: beat 拍子，节奏
Today Host :Karl (韦博上海浦东中心外教）
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I like listening to live music better than I like listening to recorded music.
比起听录制的音乐，我更喜欢听现场的音乐。
And when I listen to live music, I prefer jazz. Jazz started in America a long time ago, but now people all over the world play it and enjoy it.
我喜欢爵士乐。爵士乐起源于美国，现在，爵士乐在世界范围内都十分受欢迎。
Jazz is special for 2 reasons.
说爵士乐特别有两个原因。
The first is that the beat (or you can say rhythm) is opposite that of normal music.
首先是因为它的节奏，和其它的音乐很不一样。
Secondly, jazz players always improvise, which means every time they play live, they don’t have to follow all the notes from the song—they can play the same song differently every time.
第二，因为爵士乐经常可以即兴创作，在现场演奏的时候，不需要完全根据歌谱来进行，每一次都可以演奏得有新意。
【导读——当你听到自己喜欢的歌曲，大脑就会分泌多巴胺，即所谓的“快感荷尔蒙”。反之，如果听到自己讨厌的歌曲，大脑的攻击与逃避中心就会受到刺激，使体内肾上腺素浓度上升。快来看看音乐是怎么影响你的！】
We know that the brain is musical because there are specific neural circuits. And by that, I mean specific regions of the brain dedicated to processing music and nothing else. Our brain structure changes every time we learn something new.
我们都知道大脑喜欢音乐，因为其中有特定的神经回路。也就是说，大脑中存在专门掌管音乐的神经区域。每一次我们接受新事物，大脑结构就会同时发生一些改变。
Music activates neurons in more regions of the brain than almost anything else scientists know of. He said that music causes the release of neurochemicals in our brains.
音乐是所有事物当中对神经元刺激最广的，它能引起大脑神经化学物质的分泌。
For example, listening to music you like causes the release of dopamine, the so called “feel good” hormone, and on the opposite side, listening to music you hate, will activate the amygdala, the brain’s fight or flight center, and that will cause a release of adrenaline.
比如说，当你听到自己喜欢的歌曲，大脑就会分泌多巴胺，即所谓的“快感荷尔蒙”。反之，如果听到自己讨厌的歌曲，大脑的攻击与逃避中心杏仁核就会受到刺激，使体内肾上腺素浓度上升。
we are all musical experts, because we know the kind of music that resonates with us on an emotional level.
每个人都是音乐专家，因为人人都知道什么样的音乐会引起自己情感上的共鸣。
A lot of people use a certain kind of music to get going in the morning, to get out of bed, to get them through an exercise workout, to calm themselves down at the end of the day. We’re using music in the same way we use drugs, really, for emotional regulation, partly because of the way it can modulate our neurochemistry, affecting our moods.
许多人在音乐声中开始新的一天，早上伴着它起床，晚上随着它入睡，健身的时候一边听着音乐，一天结束的时候用音乐平复自己的心情。人们利用音乐的方式和用药是一样的，的确如此，音乐可以用来调节情绪，这部分是由于它能调节人的神经化学状态，对我们的情绪有很大的影响作用。
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