研究生基础英语答案毛大威版unit7-10课文翻译资料.docVIP

Unit 7 Text1 How We Listen to Music We all listen to music according to our separate capacities. But for the sake of analysis, the whole listening process may become clearer if we break it up into its component parts, so to speak. In a certain sense we all listen to music on three separate planes. For lack of a better terminology , one might name these:(1)the sensuous plane,(2)the expressive plane, (3)the sheerly musical plane. 我们根据各自的能力来听音乐，打个比方来说，如果我们把音乐分成不同的部分，整个听的过程就变得很清楚了。也可以这么说，在某种程度上，我们听音乐分为三个不同的层次，因找不到更好的术语，可这样命名（1）感官层面（2）表义层面（3）纯音乐层面。 The simplest way of listening to music is to listen for the sheer pleasure of the musical sound itself. That is the sensuous plane. It is the plane on which we hear music without chinking, without considering it in any way. One turns on the radio while doing something else and absent-mindedly bathes in the sound .A kind of brainless but attractive state of mind is engendered by the mere sound appeal of the music. 最简单的听音乐方式就是听乐声给我们带来纯粹的愉悦，这是感官层面。在这个层面上我们听音乐不用思考，不用考虑，任何事情。打开收音机，一边忙别的事情一边心不在焉地沐浴在乐声中，这种心不在焉但有吸引力的心身状态是由音乐的感染力引起的。 Yes, the sound appeal of music is a potent and primitive force. This appeal to every normal human being is self-evident. The sensuous plane is an important one in music, a very important one, but it does not constitute the whole story. 是的，音乐声的感染力是强有力的，并且是原始的力量，这种感染力对每一个正常的人来说是不言而喻的。感官层面在音乐中是很重要的一个层面。非常重要，但并不是整个故事的全部构成。 Three is , however, such a thing as becoming more sensitive to the different kinds of sound stuff as used by various composers. For all composers do not use that sound stuff in the same way. Don’t get the idea that the value of music is commensurate with its sensuous appeal or that the loveliest sounding music is made by the greatest composer. If that were so. Ravel would be a greater creator than Beethoven. The point is that the sound element varies with each composer, that his usage of sound forms an integral part of his style and must be taken into account when listening. The listen