英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 01

 When Beethoven died, the weather even sort of noted¹ the event. There was a rare thunderstorm and snowstorm and there was a crash of lightning and thunder and... Beethoven opened his eyes and sort of raised up his fist and the Viennese look it as a portent² of something great had happened. A great man had died. During the lying in state, all of Beethoven's hair was cut off as souvenirs. What happened to the hair later is that the lockets of hair were put into frames and kept by the people that were friends of Beethoven. Nowadays, the attraction of the locket of hair, I think primarily, is that it allows people 200 years later to be in the presence of Beethoven again in a physical way.

 

 

 

Here it is.OK. There it is. Well, too light. OK. Now, it's sealed with this inscription³ onto the paper: this hair was taken by my father Dr Hailer on the day after the Ludwig Van Beethoven's death from Beethoven's corpse⁴.

 

Here it is, it was a vacuum. I have a medical practice, and I see a lot of patients but seldom do I get to treat Beethoven posthumously⁵. For me, it's 10 percent science, 90 percent emotion.

 

Look at there, the brown is more... intense, intense here, his hair's color

 

I am no one special, but he has affected⁶ me in a very personal way when everything else is lost and you really think you are alone, which happens to you frequently. You are never really alone if you listen to Beethoven. At least I'm never alone because I always have Ludwig Van.

 

Two hundred years since the birth of Beethoven, his music still speaks as he expressed it from the heart to the heart. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in Bonn in this house, possibly in this room. A hundred thousand people climb these stairs every year drawn⁷ by love of his music. They particularly want to see the room where this extraordinary spirit came into the world. Not wanting to disappoint them, museum staff have labeled this the birth room, but they are guessing / by their guessing.   It's a shrine⁸ to a composer whose music has inspired pilgrimage and passion across time and now across different cultures.

1 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

2 portent   

n.预兆；恶兆；怪事

参考例句：

• I see it as a portent of things to come.我把它看作是将要到来的事物的前兆。
• As for her engagement with Adam,I would say the portents are gloomy.至于她和亚当的婚约，我看兆头不妙。

3 inscription   

n.（尤指石块上的）刻印文字，铭文，碑文

参考例句：

• The inscription has worn away and can no longer be read.铭文已磨损，无法辨认了。
• He chiselled an inscription on the marble.他在大理石上刻碑文。

4 corpse   

n.尸体，死尸

参考例句：

• What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
• The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。

5 posthumously   

adv.于死后，于身后；于著作者死后出版地

参考例句：

• He was confirmed posthumously as a member of the Chinese Communist Party. 他被追认为中国共产党党员。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Her last book was published posthumously in 1948. 她最后的一本书在她死后于1948 年出版了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

7 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

8 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
• They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。