英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之花园大道 The Garden Route—11

The dunes are so big, up to 120 meters in fact, that they are permanent structures. The wind can do little to alter their size and shape. And like the cave yesterday, they contain some secrets. Long after the Homo sapiens first introduced shellfish i

英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之花园大道 The Garden Route—12

So a leopard has walked along these dunes? Where is the leopard from then? Well, they come from the mountainside. Im so scared when the farmers can see them, they can shoot them because they eat their lambs. Yes, a leopard is not really the best frie

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—21

This was a period when black communities across the Americas were taking renewed entrust in their African roots. In the United States, it was the era of black pride and an emphasis on black history, while in Africa itself in the early 70s, guerrilla

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—20

In 1969 Pele was honored by the military government for scoring his 1000th goal at a special ceremony in Brasilia, and in the same year he made his first record a duet with the great Alix Rigina. Pele and Alix Rigina's records were produced by the Bo

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—19

The military took their revenge by harassing Nascimento. In the early 70s, he was estranged from his wife and son who were living in Sao Paolo and he was phoned, warning of the consequences if he tried to visit his family. Long passages of Spanish se

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—14

I didnt think they would put us in prison, you know. They told us: the military authorities want to speak to you, to ask you some questions. And I thought they were going to ask us: why did you join the parades? Why did you do this or that? What does

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—13

A song by Caetano Veloso expressed the anger of the times and became a Tropicalia anthem, E Proibido Proibir, prohibiting is prohibited, a slogan taken from the student/ upheavals in France. The footage of him singing the song at the 1968 TV global s

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—12

The timing was right for a new internationally influenced musical movement. 1968 was a year of global upheavals and rock music provided the soundtrack. In communist Czechoslovakia, Soviet tanks rolled in to end Dubceks experiment in socialism with a

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—11

I think we were playing exactly what the Beatles did. We were, we thought that we were playing rock'n'roll, you know. I think Brazil is such a kaleidoscope of information, especially then. There was no information, so we used to pick up music from, t

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—10

He was the embryo of the very thing we were trying to do consciously. He had started with bossa nova, and he had added rhythm'n'blues and rock'n'roll to his thing. And he had a new synthesis that prefigured everything the Tropicalistas wanted to, to

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—9

The main aim of Tropicalism was really shake the environment, the musical and cultural environment. This small group from Bahia thought that violence of our situation and the importance of mass culture had a lot in common, you know, political violenc

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—8

This became known as the festival of booing. Roberto Carlos, the most successful pop star in Brazilian history and the host of a highly successful TV music show, was of course given a hard time. And the winner, predictably enough, was a singer associ

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—7

Joyce was one female Brazilian singer who dared to write her own songs. There were no women song writers at all in Brazilian music, so the first, very first time when I appeared on stage, I was booed off stage. That was 1967, I was 19 years old, and

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—15

Gil and Veloso arrived in London as exiles in 1969 and stayed for over two years. They became actively involved in the London music scene and they both wrote and recorded in English. Caetano even praised the London police. Where to go, A group approa

英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—23

I don't know. In Brazil they said it was a big mess. But I think it was important there. And the most important thing is that many of the musicians / went there to play in the concert. They stayed there and then they began to work around, like Oscar

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—6

In 1966, the co-winner of the TV Record Festival was Chico Buarque, who became an instant star with A Banda. Buarque was praised by traditionalists as the heir to the great samba cancao writers of the 1930s, who would become a symbol of resistance to

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—5

Sergio Mendes ensured that the international image of Brazil was still that of an easy-going, exotic paradise. But back in Brazil, the reality was rather different. Life was not easy. The soldiers had inherited serious economic problems, but the earl

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—4

Mas que Nada became a top ten hit, the first Portuguese language success in American pop history. -That song, Mas que Nada, is magical. I told Jorge Ben the other day I saw him in LA. And I thank him for writing that song because there's not many son

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—3

Modern samba was born in the poorer areas of Rio, and left-wing singers were inspired by the new samba do morro, samba from the hills, that dealt with the harsh realities of life in communities where there were few facilities to cope with the newcome

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—2

(The) military strike in '64 was...the worst thing that ever could happen to this country, because until today, we have never recovered from that. It was bad times. It was bad times. But at the same time, I think that the opposite of that was, that /