公众人物毕业演讲 第173期:吉米佩吉2014在伯克利音乐学院(2)

 　　I thank you so much for the interpretation¹ of my music

　　感谢你们对我的乐曲的演奏

　　That was really touching²

　　非常让人感动

　　But, across the music of Geri Allen, and Thara Memory, Valerie Simpson's music

　　昨晚有婕莉·爱伦 他拉·麦莫里 瓦莱丽·辛普森的音乐

　　which is superb, I must say

　　我不得不说 这非常棒

　　Valerie Simpson was absolutely superb last night

　　瓦莱丽·辛普森的音乐昨晚真是太棒了

　　Absolutely. Yeah

　　超级棒

　　But also just to hear the brass section that you have here

　　还有昨晚的铜管乐合奏

　　hearing them last night from the audience, just down there

　　从下面那里的观众席听到

　　was so powerful and so precise and so punchy

　　如此震撼 如此精确 如此有力

　　and everything about what real good brass sections should be about

　　一切铜管乐应有的优秀品质都到位了

　　Fantastic soloists there

　　还有美妙的独唱

　　It was just moving, right across the whole of the evening's event

　　非常动人 整晚的活动都非常精彩

　　and I must say that being here in a college

　　我不得不说 在这样一所学院中

　　I have to sort of be perfectly honest with you all that I was sort of self-taught

　　我需要完全诚实 我都是自学的

　　Not such a bad thing because I learnt from records

　　这并不是什么坏事 我从唱片中学习

　　and trying to sort of interpret playing of what would be my guitar heroes from there

　　然后尝试在我的吉他上进行演奏

　　Along the way I became a, I think you call it a side-man here, a session musician

　　过程中 我变成了一个伴奏乐手

　　And I was going in there and I'd have the charts

　　我到这里面 我有一些和弦图

　　I was head-hunted for this, actually, curiously enough

　　说来也奇怪 我被猎头相中了

　　but I couldn't read music at that time

　　当时我还读不懂音乐

　　But I could read the chord charts

　　不过我能读和弦图

　　and the session musicians in those days

　　当时的伴奏乐手

　　would play across quite a wide variety of music

　　需要演奏的音乐范畴非常广

　　It wouldn't be, like, if you were a guitarist

　　不能说 你是一个吉他乐手

　　you wouldn't just be the stylist in your own sort of field

　　你就只需要在自己专长的领域进行演奏

　　I had quite a number of guitar techniques that I'd evolved over my teenage years

　　因此 我在十几岁的时候培养出了很多吉他技术

1 interpretation   

n.解释，说明，描述；艺术处理

参考例句：

• His statement admits of one interpretation only.他的话只有一种解释。
• Analysis and interpretation is a very personal thing.分析与说明是个很主观的事情。

2 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。