英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—14

 Luiz Gonzaga you can compare him with Bob Marley in reggae, because he really did the melting of the style, you know. And it became very well known because he recorded it, he played it on the radio in the 40s, / 50s, so he came up with the new rhythm¹, popular rhythm. It was a kind/ of the thing / Bob Marley did with reggae intimism . 

 

  Luiz Gonzaga was the son of a farm worker, whose life was transformed after he had appeared on a radio show in Rio. It was hosted by Ary Barroso, but Gonzaga proved that Barroso’s nationalistic samba could be matched by dance music from the northern countryside. 

 

  Forro music didn't become something rival² to samba, but let’s say something as big as samba inside Brazil, but not outside Brazil, of course, samba had Carmen Miranda, for example as, you know, something that promoted samba, even in the Hollywood movies, but Forro is as much from the people of Brazil, from the real people of Brazil as samba.. 

 

  This was a new era³ of migration⁴ as workers from the poor farmlands of the northeast moved south to the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to look for work. Luiz Gonzaga wrote dance songs and sang about the lives of the migrants and those they left behind.

1 rhythm   

n.韵律；节奏

参考例句：

• He has an ear for the rhythm of Irish speech.他对爱尔兰语的节奏很敏感。
• His poem has a pleasing rhythm.他的诗有和谐的韵律。

2 rival   

n.竞争对手，敌手；vt.与…相匹敌，比得上

参考例句：

• None of us can rival him in strength.我们谁也没他劲大。
• She defeat all her rival for the job with nonchalant ease.她从容不迫地击败求职的所有竞争者。

3 era   

n.时代，年代，纪元，阶段

参考例句：

• We are living in the information era.我们生活在信息时代。
• We are living in a great historic era.我们正处在一个伟大的历史时代。

4 migration   

n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙

参考例句：

• Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
• He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。