时间:2018-12-17 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台2月


英语课

All-Female Orchestra From Afghanistan Is A Force For Change


STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: 


Decades of war and extremism in Afghanistan have ravaged 1 that country's ancient culture including its music. A school in Kabul started by an Afghan musicologist is trying to change that, and this month introduced the first ever all-female Afghan orchestra which played at the World Economic Forum 2 in Davos. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson caught up with them during a recent concert in Berlin and files this report.


(SOUNDBITE OF ZOHRA ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL)


SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON, BYLINE 3: There's a brief hiccup 4 as the young Afghan women in brightly colored headscarves and dresses rehearse before their concert is to begin here at a landmark 5 church in the German capitol.


UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Speaking Dari).


AHMAD SARMAST: (Speaking Dari).


NELSON: One performer complains to orchestra founder 6 Ahmad Sarmast that there isn't enough room to play. He waves at the others to scoot over and give her more space.


SARMAST: (Speaking Dari).


NELSON: "From the top, girls," he says, and they oblige.


(SOUNDBITE OF ZOHRA ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL)


NELSON: The conductor for this piece is 18-year-old Zarifa Adiba. She moves her arms as gracefully 7 as a ballerina.


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NELSON: The girls and young women, ages 14 to 20, play traditional Afghan instruments like the rubab, similar to a lute 8, and the drum-like tabla as well as Western instruments like the piano and oboe. Adiba, for example, is not only a conductor but a violist. She was born in the Taliban-rife Ghazni province where girls are often forced to marry when they are still children, but Adiba had bigger ambitions.


ZARIFA ADIBA: The thing that I loved was music from my childhood. And my mother is a great supporter of me, and she told me that what you love, go ahead and find out. I had a kind of view about pop singing, rock singing, and I wanted to be a pop singer actually.


NELSON: But then she enrolled 9 at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul and discovered girls could play instruments. The school was started by Sarmast, who had moved back to his native Afghanistan from Australia after the Taliban were driven from power. His goal, which almost cost him his life in a suicide attack two years ago, is to create a new generation of Afghan musicians to bring back their country's musical tradition and infuse it with Western ones. On this night, for example, the female orchestra performs Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.


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NELSON: Sarmast says his quest for diversity is not only musical, but of gender 10. That isn't always popular in Afghanistan's ultra-conservative society that is strictly 11 segregated 12 by sex.


SARMAST: But that situation cannot continue forever, and Afghanistan should move in the same path that every other nation goes. And the girls and the women of Afghanistan should also enjoy the freedom that other girls and women are enjoying outside Afghanistan.


NELSON: All of which appeals to Adiba, who managed to get into the school even though she was a ninth-grader and the cut-off is usually fourth grade. She says she loved playing in Europe this month, but is eager to go home, especially after learning that an uncle who disapproved 13 of her playing recently told her mother how proud he is of his niece.


ADIBA: I'm happy that at least I changed my family, and these all girls who are in the orchestra, they are going to change their family. And their family - when their family is going to change, you can have a society which is changed.


(SOUNDBITE OF ZOHRA ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE)


NELSON: The group's last European and performance is tonight in the eastern German city of Weimar. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, NPR News, Berlin.


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1 ravaged
毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 ); 蹂躏; 劫掠; 抢劫
  • a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
  • The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。
2 forum
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
3 byline
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
4 hiccup
n.打嗝
  • When you have to hiccup,drink a glass of cold water.当你不得不打嗝时,喝一杯冷水就好了。
  • How long did he hiccup?他打嗝打了多久?
5 landmark
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
6 Founder
n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
7 gracefully
ad.大大方方地;优美地
  • She sank gracefully down onto a cushion at his feet. 她优雅地坐到他脚旁的垫子上。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line. 新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
8 lute
n.琵琶,鲁特琴
  • He idly plucked the strings of the lute.他漫不经心地拨弄着鲁特琴的琴弦。
  • He knows how to play the Chinese lute.他会弹琵琶。
9 enrolled
adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 );登记,招收,使入伍(或入会、入学等),参加,成为成员;记入名册;卷起,包起
  • They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起,他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 gender
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
11 strictly
adv.严厉地,严格地;严密地
  • His doctor is dieting him strictly.他的医生严格规定他的饮食。
  • The guests were seated strictly in order of precedence.客人严格按照地位高低就座。
12 segregated
分开的; 被隔离的
  • a culture in which women are segregated from men 妇女受到隔离歧视的文化
  • The doctor segregated the child sick with scarlet fever. 大夫把患猩红热的孩子隔离起来。
13 disapproved
v.不赞成( disapprove的过去式和过去分词 )
  • My parents disapproved of my marriage. 我父母不赞成我的婚事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She disapproved of her son's indiscriminate television viewing. 她不赞成儿子不加选择地收看电视。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
a safe bet
air intake silencer
alendronic acid
allegorisation
Aristoserina
astralnauts
automatic numbering transmitter
back-of-an-envelope
Bhumiphol Res.
biofriendly
bistipuled
brachythecium wichurae
capital utilization
challo
check amplifier
chest pains
choroidal injury
combined harmonic antenna
cone of debris
congenital reflex
congressional districts
consenting adults
copper binding wire
debris disposal area
disorder of eye functions
dwarf-white trillium
earthquake center
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
electromagnetic countermeasure
electromechanical pickup
fluidic hardware
forizzle
four ring snaffle bit
front shutter
full-duplex terminal
Gastrochilus nanus
glast
growing over
halser
hand sketch
hang on the skirts of
he-huckleberries
hela cell
help function
helplessness theory of depression
high knock rating gasoline
high old time
hinged discharging prow
homogeneous Poisson process
I-E characteristic
ieee 802.4 token bus access method
information vendor
ink bottle
jawbox
Kasasi
Kharimkotan, Ostrov
large face machine
legitimize
lichenless
Manits
Massingham
mebbe
meldrick
multianode tank
multipurpose fuze
non-metallic pipe
Nuoke
Ophidiase
passenger cargo liner
plane sliding window
plowtails
Pyrazinecarboxylamide
r-f intermodulation distortion
raw gasoline
reinicke
ring-fences
secondary mother-tree
shaunesey
Shkotovo
shoots the shit
signal stimulus
sludge condintioning
steady climate
strobe switch
switch inductance box
temporo-
test receiver
the brothers grimm
thelasis
thread up
throbless
time switching multiplex
transactionality
twice yearly
Typhoid-Paratyphoid
unendangered
universal table
utility curve
water soluble phenol resin
wintard
Yoredale series