必修二册第五单元阅读讲解

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THE VIRTUAL CHOIR
虚拟合唱团

Imagine having the opportunity to sing together with hundreds of other people while you are at home alone. You can do this in a virtual choir. Virtual choir members record themselves while they perform alone on video. These videos are uploaded onto the Internet, and then they are put together into one video that you can see online-a virtual choir. Anyone can take part in a virtual choir from anywhere-all you need is a video camera and an Internet connection. You do not even need a studio. A virtual choir helps connect ordinary people together. Many people do not have close friends or contacts who have the same interest in music. Many others do not have the chance to join a local choir. A virtual choir enables them to add their voices to those of other individuals and become part of the global community. It has proved to be a positive influence on the lives of many people. As one virtual choir member said, "Music helps me to ... forget my problems. With music, I become someone else."
想象一下，独自在家时，你可以和几百个人一道引吭高歌。虚拟合唱团能够让你的想象成为现实。虚拟合唱团的成员们把各自的歌唱视频录制下来，上传到互联网上，然后这些视频被合并成一个你可以在线观看的视频——虚拟大合唱。任何人，无论身在何地，都可以参加虚拟合唱团——你只需要一部摄像机，并且能够上网，你连工作室都不需要。虚拟合唱团将普通人联系起来。许多人没有亲密的朋友，也没有志趣相投的私交，还有很多人没有机会参加本地的合唱团。虚拟合唱团让他们能够与其他人一起欢歌，成为全球社区的一部分。事实证明，虚拟合唱团对许多人的生活产生了积极的影响。一位虚拟合唱团成员说道：“音乐帮助我... ...忘记自己的问题。音乐，让我脱胎换骨。”

The virtual choir was the idea of award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre. Born in the USA on 2 January 1970, Whitacre began studying music at the University of Nevada in 1988. He fell in love with Mozart's classical music when he sang for the university choir. Moved by this music, he said, "It was like seeing color for the first time. " He graduated from university in 1995, and then received a master's degree in musical composition from the Juilliard School in New York in 1997. Over the next 10 years, Whitacre's original compositions began to become quite popular among choirs and singers. This led to the creation of the virtual choir.
虚拟合唱团是获奖作曲家兼指挥埃里克·惠塔克的创意。惠塔克于1970年1月2日生于美国，1988年进入内华达大学学习音乐。在大学合唱团期间，他痴迷于莫扎特的古典音乐。他被这段音乐打动了，他说：“那种(兴奋的)感觉就如同是第一次看见色彩一样。”他1995年大学毕业、随后于1997年获纽约茱莉亚音乐学院音乐创作硕十学位。在接下来的十年间，惠塔克的原创作品深受合唱团和歌手的欢迎，这促使他创建了虚拟合唱图。

In 2009, Whitacre received a video of a girl who was singing one of his works. Inspired, he asked his fans to make videos, which he then joined together into one performance. His first virtual choir, "Lux Aurumque", had 185 singers from 12 different countries. It has received millions of views on the Internet. Since then, the virtual choir has become a worldwide phenomenon. Whitacre's next effort was the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF, which was first seen on stage on 23 July 2014 in the UK. Altogether, 2,292 young people from 80 countries joined in to sing Whitacre's song "What If".
2009年，惠塔充收到了一个女孩的视频、视频是女孩演唱他创作的一部作品。受此启发，惠塔克邀请粉丝们录制视频，然后他将这些视频拼接成一场演出。他创办的首个虚拟合唱团“金色之光”，拥有来自12个不同国家的185名歌手。该合唱团在互联网上的点击量已超过百万次。自此，虚拟合唱团风靡全球。惠塔克的第二个壮举是打造联合国儿童基金会“虚拟青年合唱团”，该团于2014年7月23日在英国首次登台演出，总共有来自80个国家的2,292名青年参与演唱惠塔克的歌曲《假如》。

The virtual choir is a wonderful way for people around the world to sing with one voice and thus make the world a better place.
虚拟合唱团提供了一种美妙的方式，让世界各地的人们能够同声歌唱，世界因此变得更加美好。

必修二册第五单元第56页阅读讲解

Good morning! My name is Sarah Williams. It's an honour to be here and to share with you the story of how music has had an impact on my life.
上午好！我叫莎拉·威廉姆斯。非常荣幸来到这里与大家分享音乐是如何影响了我的人生的。

(A) Have you ever faced a time when things looked dark and you had no hope at all? Two years ago, I was told I had a serious disease which was difficult to cure. My body ached all the time and thus I thought I didn't have much longer to live. I was very afraid and I felt so alone and discouraged. Then one day, I had to go through a two-hour medical treatment. The doctor wanted me to relax, so he had me listen to some music, and one of the songs was "Happy". The song made me feel so much better that from then on I began to listen to music all the time. (B) John A. Logan said, "Music is the medicine of the mind. "And it's true. Music helped me recover.
你是否曾经历过黯淡无光、万念俱灰的一段时光？两年前，我被告知得了一种很难治愈的严重疾病，全身一直疼痛，觉得自己活不了多久了。我非常害怕，感到十分孤独、沮丧。后来有一天，我需要去做两个小时的治疗。医生想要我放松，就让我听一些音乐，其中一首歌是《快乐》。听着这首歌，我感觉好多了；从此之后，我开始一直听音乐。约翰·A·洛根曾说过:“音乐是心灵的良药。”的确如此，音乐助我康复。

(C) Music gave me happiness. When I listened to music, (D) it made my spirits fly like a kite in the wind. (C) Music gave me strength and brought me relief. (E) It was the rock I leant on to become strong and to get through those hard times. Moreover, (C) music gave me hope and a sense of satisfaction. (F) It became my best friend. It spoke words of encouragement to the deepest part of my being.
音乐给我带来了快乐。当我听音乐的时候，音乐让我的心情放飞，像风中的风筝。音乐给予我力量，也让我得到解脱。音乐是岩石，让我倚靠，变得坚强，度过那些艰难的日子。不仅如此，音乐还给予我希望和满足感。音乐成了我最好的朋友，它(音乐)使我的内心深受鼓舞。

Of course, I hope none of you have to go through the same kind of suffering that I did. At the same time, we all go through various periods when we feel sad or alone. During those times, music can help you in the same way that it helped me. I hope all of you will somehow begin to treasure music and make it a part of your life.
当然，我希望你们不要经历和我一样的痛苦。同时，我们都会经历悲伤或孤独的时光。在那时，音乐可以帮助你，就像它曾经帮助我一样。我希望大家都能以某种方式开始珍惜音乐，让音乐成为你生活的一部分。

Thank you!
谢谢大家。