Not very musical 并非很懂音乐

【课文】

As we had had a long walk through one of the markets of old Delhi, we stopped at a square to have a rest. After a time, we noticed a snake charmer with two large baskets at the other side of the square, so we went to have a look at him. As soon as he saw us, he picked up a long pipe which was covered with coins and opened one of the baskets. When he began to play a tune, we had our first glimpse of the snake. It rose out of the basket and began to follow the movements of the pipe. We were very much surprised when the snake charmer suddenly began to play jazz and modern pop songs. The snake, however, continued to 'dance' slowly. It obviously could not tell the difference between Indian music and jazz!

【课文翻译】

当我们穿过旧德里的市场时走了很长一段路，我们在一个广场上停下来休息。过了一会儿，我们注意到广场的那一边有一个带着两个大筐的耍蛇人，于是就走过去看看。他一见我们，就拿起了一个长长的上面镶有硬币的管乐器，并掀开了一个筐的盖子。当他开始吹奏一支曲子时，我们才第一次看到那条蛇。它从筐里探出身子， 随着乐器的摆动而扭动。当耍蛇人突然又吹奏起爵士乐和现代流行乐曲时，我们感到非常惊奇。然而那蛇却还是缓慢地“舞动”着。显然，它分辨不出印度音乐和爵士乐!

【生词和短语】

musical adj. 精通音乐的

market n. 市场，集市

snake charmer 玩蛇者(通常借音乐控制)

pipe n. (吹奏的)管乐器

tune n. 曲调

glimpse n. 一瞥

snake n. 蛇

movement n. 动作

continue v. 继续

dance v. 跳舞

obviously adv. 显然

difference n. 差别

Indian adj. 印度的

【知识点讲解】

1 we stopped at a square to have a rest.

我们在一个广场上停下来休息。

stop at 停留，住宿在……，对……有些踌躇

He stopped at the convenience store, and bought a magazine.

他在便利店稍作停留，买了本杂志。

stop to do sth. 停下来去做某事

stop doing sth. 停止做某事

2 after a time 一段时间后，过了片刻

She left the bar after a time.

片刻之后，她离开了酒吧。

3 have a walk/rest

have a+名词，这个名词可以与动词同型，即如果该名词也可以作动词，那么have a+名词这种结构就等于它的动词意义。类似的结构还有：

have a swim/bath→have a bath=bathe，have a swim=swim

have a look = look

After a long walk on a hot day, I really want to have a bath.

大热天的在外面走了那么久，我真的很想好好洗个澡。

4 the snake charmer suddenly began to play jazz and modern pop songs.

耍蛇人突然又吹奏起爵士乐和现代流行乐曲。

begin 后面可以接to do，也可以接doing，一般来说而这时可以互换的，但有三种情况例外。

①主语是物而不是人时，必须用to do。如：

It begin to rain.

天开始下雨了。

②begin后面接表示心理活动的词，如know，believe，wonder，think等词。

The manager began to think when to quit.

经理开始思考什么时候辞职比较好。

③如果begin本身是ing形式，那么为了避免重复，后面接的词用to do 形式。

He is beginning to sing the song.

他开始唱起这首歌来。

5 he picked up a long pipe.

他拿起长长的管乐器。

pick up 拣起;获得;收获

pick sb up：接某人(顺路)，meet sb+地点，表示专程接某人

pick up也可表示学习，学会

pick up the radio program(the program on the radio)在广播上收听节目

pick out：挑出来

Lucy begins to pick up Japanese when she enters the workforce.

参加工作之后露西开始学习日语。

6 tell the difference between a and b 说出两者之间的差异

a be different from b a和b不同

differ v. 后面可加in/ from

It's absolutely impossible to tell the difference between the two rings.

要说出这两枚戒指的不同之处简直是不可能的。

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