英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—17

 President Vargas gave Rio the Carnival¹ for which the city became world-famous, but less than two years after his death, a new form of samba emerged that reflected a new political era in Brazil and would bring Rio even more international exposure and prove to be Brazil’s most successful musical export. This was bossa nova. 

 

This was cool, futuristic, new music for a confident, new era. President Juscelino Kubitschek set out to transform Brazil with an ambitious program of public works/ that included the construction of a new federal capital, Brasilia, and a promise of 50 years’ development in five. 

 

Kubitschek would later be accused of causing rampant² inflation, but for many Brazilians, this seemed like a golden age. 

 

He was a very open-minded man. You know that we had tremendous dictatorship by Vargas who was a complete idiot, you know, and when Juscelino came to the government of Brazil, everything expanded. 

 

It was a time when Brazil seemed to succeed at everything, a country obsessed³ with football won the World Cup for the first time in 1958, partly thanks to a young player, called Pele. Bossa nova, the new way, reflected this new optimism and appealed to Brazil’s growing urban middle class. It was influenced by Western classical music, Jazz and by samba cancao.

1 carnival   

n.嘉年华会，狂欢，狂欢节，巡回表演

参考例句：

• I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
• Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。

2 rampant   

adj.(植物)蔓生的；狂暴的，无约束的

参考例句：

• Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
• You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。

3 obsessed   

adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的

参考例句：

• He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
• The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。