英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—13

 Carmen Miranda came to symbolize¹ Brazil for the outside world, though she had been criticized at home for becoming too westernized. Her sophisticated light-hearted songs had little to do with the everyday struggles of many ordinary Brazilians. They found a new hero in the northern countryside, inland from Recife. 

 

Luiz Gonzaga was the exponent² of a new style, Forro, that swept across Brzail in the 1940s from the remote northeast where his songs are still played by musicians who knew him.

1 symbolize   

vt.作为...的象征，用符号代表

参考例句：

• Easter eggs symbolize the renewal of life.复活蛋象征新生。
• Dolphins symbolize the breath of life.海豚象征着生命的气息。

2 exponent   

n.倡导者，拥护者；代表人物；指数，幂

参考例句：

• She is an exponent of vegetarianism.她是一个素食主义的倡导者。
• He had been the principal exponent of the Gallipoli campaign.他曾为加里波利战役的主要代表人物。