【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 the same songs were about country life, the seasons, animals and plants, and about love and sadness in people39。s performers of music were popular and used to learn hundreds of songs by festivals they used to act and sing in praise of heroes who lived long was at a time when there was no radio, TV or of the country people could neither read nor this way stories were passed on from one person to continues in some countries even some parts of the world nowadays, you often see musiclans performing in the streets to passers put a cap on the ground in front of them, so that people who like the music can drop coins into it.[點評]文章對音樂的種類以及流傳方式作了描述。后兩段實際上主要講述音樂人的情況，似乎多少有些不切主題——音樂本身。此文可作為參考資料。[參考譯文]音樂世界上的音樂有兩大類——一類是寫下來的，另一類是沒有寫下來的。許多人靠寫詞作曲來謀生。他們給通俗歌星創(chuàng)作歌曲，為電影和電視節(jié)目作曲。他們通常還要為如何演奏他們的音樂寫出精確的說明。民間音樂是一代一代地流傳下來的。起初從來沒有人把它寫下來過。人們是從家人、親戚、村里的鄰居或朋友那里學(xué)會唱這些歌的。歌詞內(nèi)容是有關(guān)鄉(xiāng)村生活、季節(jié)、動植物以及人的生活中的愛情與憂傷。早期的音樂演奏家們是深受人們歡迎和愛戴的。他們牢記幾百首歌曲。在節(jié)日里他們表演并歌頌很久以前的英雄。這是廣播、電視或電影出現(xiàn)以前的情形。當(dāng)時許多鄉(xiāng)里人不識字，也不會寫字。故事就是用這種方式流傳下來的。即使今天，有些國家里還存在這種情況?，F(xiàn)在世界上有些地區(qū)，你還可以經(jīng)?？吹揭魳芳以诮诸^為行人演奏。他們把帽子放在身前的地上，以便喜歡這種音樂的人能把硬幣投到帽子里。When I was a child, I was fascinated by the melody of piano on the that time, I dreamed of being a pianist and having my own the age of five, my father bought me a beautiful piano as my birthday present with the money they had saved for a long the same time, my father found a piano teacher for me and every day I would practise it again and again as my father long, my interest in piano was transferred to other began to escape the practice as much as I father found out my encouraged me and was stricter with me than ever his help,I underwent the hardest time and devoted myself to the , in my spare time after a long time of study and hard work, I always play the piano and enjoy the beautiful ，我總被電視上鋼琴的優(yōu)美旋律所吸引。那時，我就夢想有一架自己的鋼琴，成為一名鋼琴師。6歲的時候，爸爸用他積攢了很久的錢為我買了一架很漂亮的鋼琴，作為我的生日禮物。為此，爸爸還為我請了鋼琴老師。每天，我都按爸爸的要求不停地練習(xí)。沒過多久，我對鋼琴的興趣就越來越淡了，我開始盡可能逃避練琴。爸爸發(fā)現(xiàn)了我的厭琴情緒，鼓勵我堅持下去，對我的要求也比以前更嚴(yán)了。在爸爸的幫助下，我度過了最難熬的一段日子，并全身心投入到練琴中。今天，學(xué)習(xí)和工作之余，我就彈起鋼琴來，享受那美妙的音樂。第二篇：英語周記AS英語周記1The summer holiday that I am looking forward to is drawing I have already madea plan for ,it’s important for me to finish my homework ahead of ,I am fond oftravelling,I hope that I can take a vacation to anywhere I like this ,I am not satisfiedwith my final exam an old saying goes:“Where there is a way,there is a will”.I think ifI could study hard,my results will improve ,I am ready for this in all,may Ihave a wonderful summer one can deny that The London Olympic Games is a world class OlympicGames have a tremendous effect on be honest,every time when I hear the nationalanthem,acpanied by the rising of the national flag,I will be very some extent,itreflects our example,when you see the Chinese athletes make every effort to winthe first price in the petition and finally they make it,I am sure you will feel quite the Olympic Games,we can know not only the athletes’ effort,but also thecountries’physical to the Olympic Games, our life is more Nowadays,it is a mon phenomenon that more and more high school students opentheir own blogs on the I also open a blog for myself this provides me acolorful platform to showcase my talent and it39。s always to release pressure when I feel my parents don39。t want me to spend too much time on insist that managing my blog willtake a lot of time and energy,while this should be used to study and review,which is my main I don39。t approue of their believe blog itself is of little isattitude towards it that know clearly that what I should do is to take the advantages andavoid some bad As is wellknown to all,books teaches us to learn life,truth,science and many other useful increase our knowledge,broaden our minds and strengthen our otherswords,they are our good teachers and wise is the reason why so many people readbooks in their free is a good thing,but we must pay attention to the choice of read A Dream of the Red Mansion this book told me that we should deal with ainterpersonal relationship I know the author of that book don39。t want to let our knowthis I always keep a sentence in mind,the sentence is “Learning without thinkingleads to confusion。thinking without studying results in tardiness.”英語周記5I heard that the Great Wall is very an old saying goes:“Seeing isbelieving.”So I went to Beijing to climb The Great Great Wall ,which is more than 6000kilometers long,is the longest wall in the has a history of more than 2000 is madeof stone and bricks and almost all the construction was done by hands without any thewall was built to defend the country against foreign invaders,there were watchtowers every fewhundred meters along the ,the Great Wall is one of the most famous places of interest inChina and it attacts many visitors every have to say this trip does really a good 第三篇