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小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： HYPERLINK /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0HYPERLINK 美联英语提供：英语短新闻 我们这代人的《星球大战》Three important things happened in the middle of 1977, each separated by a little more than a month: “Star Wars” was released, I celebrated my 11th birthday and Elvis Presley died. One of those things is not like the others, I know, and strictly speaking there wasn’t then and isn’t now anything beyond calendar coincidence that links them together. But those random events nonetheless go a long way toward explaining my relationship to popular culture.1977年中期发生了三件重要的事，时间分别间隔一个月多一点：《星球大战》(Star Wars)上映、我庆祝11岁生日、还有埃尔维斯·普莱斯利(Elvis Presley)去世。我知道其中一件事和另外两件不大一样，而且严格来说，无论是在当时还是现在，除了日期上的巧合，这三件事之间其实没什么联系。不过，这些随机事件仍然可以在很大程度上解释我同流行文化之间的关系。And not only mine, of course. Modern life is a series of generational milestones. We calibrate our collective identities according to the shared experience of public events, including hit movies and popular songs. Whether we like them or not, those become part of the architecture of our private selves and also a kind of currency we trade with our peers. Elvis, in his mid-40s at the time of his death, was for kids like me immutably the property of the old, a reminder of the moment in our parents’ youth when everything had changed. The Beatles represented a similar, slightly more recent earthquake: They too belonged to the past. We had sung their songs in nursery school and heard them on “Sesame Street.” Nostalgia had claimed them. “Star Wars” was different. It was ours — our own special tectonic shift, after which the landscape was forever altered.当然，不仅仅是我一个人同流行文化的关系。现代生活由一系列不同世代的里程碑组成。我们用公共事件中的共同体验来精确调整我们的集体身份认同，热门电影和流行歌曲也在在这些公共事件之列。无论我们喜欢与否，它们都参与建构了我们的个人身份，也是我们与同龄人交流的一种硬通货。猫王去世时40多岁，对于我这样的孩子来说，他属于旧时代的产物，这一点是无可改变的，他提醒我们想起父母的年轻时代，那时候一切都变了。披头士(The Beatles)乐队象征着类似的文化地震，只是时间距现在更近一点：然而他们也属于过去。我们在幼儿园里唱他们的歌，在《芝麻街》(Sesame Street)里听到他们的歌。他们已经属于怀旧了。但《星球大战》是不同的。它是我们的——属于我们自己的地壳板块漂移，之后大陆的面貌永远改变了。Or so the story goes, in both