英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—24

 Garota de Ipanema, Girl from Ipanema, had been written by Jobim and Vinicius in 1962 as they sat in this bar off Copacabana, watching the girls walk by.

 

They wrote that song just because they saw the same girl passing by the bar, going towards the beach every day. And they were like, oh my god, check it out. Check the way she walks, check how charming she is when she crosses the road/. And I don’t know if today these people still can have that naive¹ or romantic way of approaching words and songs in a way that they used to do 40, 50 years back.

 

Girl from Ipanema would become a massive hit in the States in July 1964 when it was sung in English by Joao Gilberto’s then wife, Astrud. 

 

But by then, the idyllic² image of an easygoing, romantic Brazil had been shuttered by a military coup³. The soldiers would remain in power for the next 21 years. And in a country where music had come to represent the national identity, samba and bossa would be transformed and a new generation of musicians would fight against the harassment⁴ and censorship that was to come.

1 naive   

adj.幼稚的，轻信的；天真的

参考例句：

• It's naive of you to believe he'll do what he says.相信他会言行一致，你未免太单纯了。
• Don't be naive.The matter is not so simple.你别傻乎乎的。事情没有那么简单。

2 idyllic   

adj.质朴宜人的，田园风光的

参考例句：

• These scenes had an idyllic air.这种情景多少有点田园气氛。
• Many people living in big cities yearn for an idyllic country life.现在的很多都市人向往那种田园化的生活。

3 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。

4 harassment   

n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱

参考例句：

• She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
• The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。