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* u- h# H3 h% f+ p+ F! B! d$ fW: I'm reading this book about jazz for that course on Popular Culture I'm taking. Listen to these (quotes 引言) by Louis Armstrong, when someone asked him what jazz music was, he said,"If you (gotta 必须) ask, you'll never know." What do you think about that?
( O8 e8 t2 r/ K7 uM: Oh, I don't think jazz is that <mysterious 神秘的>. I mean it's just (another) kind of music, seems to me like a person (not be) able to study (it), to break down into pieces. I took the (classic) music appreciation course last semeter, and the professor taught us (the) kinds of things to listen for, to understand the music. I (don't) see why I couldn't do the same thing for jazz (as) I learn to do for classic music.- z4 b( R0 r* t2 v
W: Well, for what the book said, a lot of people try to apply the rules of the western musical theory to jazz music, like the rule he probably learned, that you need to appreciate jazz according to its (own set of rules). Analyzing jazz by the same rules as classic music (would be like) using the rule for analyzing a short story to analyze a poem.' ^1 D; N& i! Z" |- }2 s
M: Oh, come on. It's obvious that the poem has a different structures from the short story, but just how is jazz so different?: E+ R0 n( @" z1 V: N! U' O
W:OK, well one example is the beat. In European music, the ground beat is built into the melody the main sound line; you can (tap 轻敲) your foot to it. But in jazz, the ground beat is <deliberately 故意地> avoided in the melody, the beat (has) to be established by the whole separated section of instruments like the (bass 低音乐器) or (drum 鼓)., P8 c* D( Z/ C
M: All right, I'll give you that. (Really) it's pretty important difference, but is that all?1 E* m5 {* G) r6 F4 L2 Z$ T
W:No, there are other differences. Like, traditionally, classic music is based on certain type music scales major and minor. Fortunately, all of this music is built around differences and change (these) types of scales, but a lot of jazz is based on the blues, and blues scale isn't major or minor.
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1. mysterious 神秘的,不可思议的；暧昧的,可疑的；故弄玄虚的. Q4 B4 ~4 c! i
2. music appreciation 音乐鉴赏
- v  e$ D/ s/ }3 T3. deliberately 故意地
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关于jazz主题的听写做了好像很多，但内容都是不一样的，可以整理成jazz专题啦！

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历史类 第十二篇 艺术史 painting. S% a+ h' y6 M# K
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I'd like to move on now to still life painting in the United States. Now the earliest American still (lives) were (modeled 做模型) on seventeenth century Dutch still life paintings, the (images) of which often <symbolize 用符号表示> the home and the growing prosperity of (the) Dutch merchants. So in these early American paintings, you might (see), for example, a simple (table top display) of food or other (inanimate 死气沉沉的) objects. Now the still lives of the nineteenth century reveal a great deal about the time in which the srtist lives. For example, in the first half of the nineteenth century, many Americans were <prosperous 繁荣的>, and shopping and accumulating things were major <pastimes 娱乐，消遣>. So in these paintings, the consumer (oriented 面向) in American society is conveyed true display of goods that suggested the <luxury 奢侈> and social status. Well, this also suggested with representation (of )(plentiful 丰富的) food, fragile flowers and other beautiful objects of natural world. Then, after the civil war, in approximately the mid nineteenth century, the mood of the country changed. Likewise, the mood of the paintings changed. For example, the artists might apply the paintings roughly to depict the group of (battered 打扁的) old things that symbolize difficult times and (the) disappearance of good days. So let's look at some (Flight's) paintings from this period and see if you can determine when the paintings were created.
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2. prosperity 兴隆，繁荣，旺盛$ W7 s$ L2 P4 I% Y% z
3. inanimate 无生气的，没精打采的
3 o9 h2 F$ g3 U. z2 D4. fragile flowers 名贵的花7 M; n! J1 J4 f- s+ ~
5. depict 画，刻画: C2 V/ U; x, t+ B
6. battered 打扁了的，打垮了的，敲碎了的" [+ G8 N0 D: e0 [' T
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这篇有很多简单的词都拼错了。 7 Q7 Y/ `: D, c2 ]1 e: W1 Q
还有些词耳朵不熟悉。

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我要让你失望了，今天没有跟读，只做了听写。  I* G3 _. `& m, ^) L5 T3 \
早上起来先去占座，听写了。! a+ c2 ], M  ~/ f' F$ f
本来想晚上回来读，可是中午就被拉去鸟巢看比赛了。 6 @+ O( C( i0 N  U& ~! Q' O9 J) w
难道鸟巢的比赛真的比托福更重要吗？! K0 T2 p+ k2 R. a/ `" I/ b
不是，我不会因此而堕落的，继续奋斗。

今天和昨天表现完全不同，听写了3篇，跟读了2篇。9 J; K% }; X' R& X% n; }
只是明早要6点起来，所以今晚要早点睡，不能把听写的内容打上来了。9 y" u" G* k: t! R0 L2 [
但是明天白天我会贴上来的。

亲爱的小马们，我终于回来了。
* y9 q6 j% Y9 v7 n电脑坏了，送去维修，到现在才拿回来。, f! r. ]9 u+ f" R! B% T0 [
这几天没有电脑，用mp3听写的日子好痛苦哦。   k+ p0 `. F* e0 b# T9 u# t
这几天上不了小马写听写和备考日记的日子，好难受哦。 9 V/ M# P3 \, Z
现在终于能上了，晚上我要把听写的贴上，继续我的奋斗！

9月11日
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历史类 第十四篇（历史）
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Let me tell you about an exhibit of the university museum that you might want to see. There are showing a collection of coins and paper money used in North America in the last two hunderd years. The exhibit also includes historic facts about the (various forms of currency). One interesting (item I saw there) was a currency note from Canada,a piece of paper money (worthy) only 25 cents. I've never seen (a) bill (worth) so little. The Canadian government issued the notes in 1870 (as a) temporary solution to a shortage of coins. The plan was to use them for only a few years until enough coins could be made. The people found the bills so useful that the Canadian government printed more in 1900 and 1923. Most people simply like the bills because they were easy to hold in (a) purse or (a) pocket or to send through the mail. They are only about half of our size (as our) current bills. But what's unusual is the way that soldiers used them. They would stick them down in their (boots) to prevent (the boots) from rubbing (against their skin). You could image how <irritated> your (shins) might get if your boots had to rubber against them all day. So the durable paper really helped. As a result,they became known as (shin plasters 胫骨膏药). The bank of Canada finally (recalled 恢复) the shin plasters in 1935 and ironically those that were not destroyed are now valuable collector's items like the one on display at the museum.
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irritated (皮肤等)变粗的；发红的；因刺激而发炎的5 Z2 u/ ]5 Q0 f  V+ ]4 p
shin 【解剖学】胫；【昆】胫节；外胫；脚杆骨；胫骨
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as & a 要分辨清楚哦！   x  b7 W0 E% l1 R* m

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9月12日
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; H1 d* ]2 ^, J历史类 第十五篇 历史
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The settling of inland frontier in Canada involve many conflicts and those (where were) making money with involve were particularly (bigger). A good case in point is the intense (rivalry 竞争) between the 2 major (fur trade) companies around the beginning of 19th century. The Hudson's (Bay) Company (had) a royal (charter 授权，特许) that is a (monopoly 垄断) in the area where (operating) costs were low. In addition to keeping any competition out of the area (where) doing business (was the least) expensive, their charter also give the (access) to long term credit from the Bank of England. Other bonuses that include were a rich management community and support from highly place (politicians 政治家). Their rival,the (upstart 暴发的) North West Company (of Montreal 蒙特利尔), had (none of) these advantages but they did have brave men who didn’t (hesitate to) go into (untried territory 未开发的领土). Their profits depended on constantly moving on, always going to the new areas that have greater numbers of animals. This increased the transportation cost of course and kept their profits low. When challenged by the North West Company, Hudson’s Bay reacted by taking on the (tactics) of its rival by also (hiring) people willing to adventure into new areas. Then they (undercut 削弱) North West by increasing the value of goods they trade to India for first. They could afford to do (these) because their wealthy backers (would accept) low profits for a time in order to squeeze the North West out.
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2. bonus 红利；额外股息
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4. squeeze 挤，压，塞；压出，挤出. E) }# Y3 s6 `- _
5. Montreal 蒙特利尔,1642年由法国人建立，取名为蒙特利尔玛丽城，它很快成为皮毛贸易中心和西部开发的起点。2 o5 Y+ z3 ]2 N, \8 ]5 v1 ^, N" M

' F. `- W4 f( m% M" c0 W8 V这篇了解了蒙特利尔这个城市的历史。

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由于mp3里只有分类场景上的campus topic，所以没有电脑的这几天，一直都在听这些比较容易的对话。# d3 u, i; V- z. C/ D: R4 V

2 B: y5 E) ~0 i/ E& ~" ?& dCampus Topic 第七篇 学习问题
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W: Hey, Kevin, I haven’t seen you since the beginning of the semester, how is it going?
$ j# x. c- @% M8 G$ J! G+ }' x$ vM: Well, I am a little (overwhelmed 受打击). It’s strange. I always want to go to a big university like this but now I am here. I am not so sure. I mean the courses are interesting enough, but…
1 ^$ _, g; H0 |# yW: What’s bothering you then?' y1 H$ `% t7 i" G; G9 U  B& n0 {
M: Well after going to a small high school and knowing everybody it’s a pretty (shagged 精疲力尽的) to be in huge lecture hall with hundreds of students. And not one professor even knows my name.
# M- D5 n. ^2 q$ vW: I know you mean. I’(ve so) pretty (lost) myself last year but I know about something that might help. It’s called the (mentor 指导者) group.  A$ K: e0 U# A$ ^' C
M: The what?. C/ ]& L& N5 j) c1 K/ |0 s9 Y
W: The mentor group. It’s like a support group. I joined it last year when I was a first year student.
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W: It’s basically professors and small group of students getting together informally to discuss all kinds of subjects. You have the chance to meet professors and other students.& G9 B0 `# C. \( T1 s/ w4 I; r7 U, W
M: Hem, sounds worthwhile, but doesn’t it take (up) a lot of studying time？+ z: }2 Q6 c: {1 }) p9 S
W: Not really, you can study all the time you know and (this) is like a little break.
( j: g  w$ L$ v9 KM: I guess you could meet professor whose course you might take later!! c) Q" t# Y1 Y$ H0 s9 Q
W: Exactly, that’s what happened to me! I am taking the psychology course with Professor Green. I didn’t know how interesting psychology was, till I got to talk to him in the mentor group.
  @$ e% j6 y4 n/ u2 lM: You talk to him in the mentor group! Is it too late to join?& E2 p8 u5 h$ X* k' }% U2 t5 d, S
W: I don’t think so; if I were you I go over to the dean’s office and sign up.# s" @5 Y! [# x" N
M: I was going to the library to return a book but I can do it later I guess.
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shagged 精疲力尽的

9月14日
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, a8 H7 T0 l$ T. k* a- @8 [campus topic 第六篇 打工场景
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M: So you are going to be writing for the school newspaper?% t$ |( S3 m$ V' D
W: Yes, (I’m) excited about it. I’m thinking about journalism as a career.+ n2 I) d( m, o+ a0 M3 k5 o$ M
M: Well! Congratulations! How do (they) decide whom to hire?
: Y4 ]3 x: u- ]W: I (have to send) the writing sample. I used one of the essays I’ve written for the literature class, then the editor (assigned 分派) me a topic to write (a short) article about it.
( S" {+ J9 D& @: ^2 f! GM: What did you write about?W: Actually, it was a lot of fun. I wrote about the students’ play that (has been performed) this month.  u8 s: p+ A. v. l. H# l5 f
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W: Yeah, I know. That’s what I wrote about --people’s reaction to it. It’s really interesting.8 f+ d$ O& b, L7 C% Y
M: Have you finished the article? Can I read it?+ }1 ]5 a7 f* A
W: Sure. I just made a couple of (copies). So you can have one.
# [" C8 O) g8 O) Z- ~6 {M: Thanks. I wish I were a better writer. Working for the paper sounds like fun.1 t( }1 m( D5 j# w; ^
W: Well, they’re looking to add one or two more photographers to the staff.
6 s  ^1 [2 X) p- I7 D, e+ IM: You’re kidding! May be (I’ll) go over and apply.$ ^" Y: |: ]9 c: t+ `
W: If you want, I’ll walk over with you to the newspaper office and introduce you to the photographic editor and some of the other photographers.% {8 C. f1 B3 W2 y) V
M: That (will) be terrific! But can we go tomorrow? I have to go to math class now. And if we go tomorrow, then I’ll have time tonight to put together a (portfolio 代表作选辑) of photographs to show them.
7 l7 U( Q- k0 E) ~0 eW: Sure. And maybe you should call them and set up a time to meeting them tomorrow.
( `% _% a5 A9 Q+ d! t. zM: Good idea. I’ll do that before I go to class.
2 _3 C  R! Z% |/ y* L. E; _W: All right. See you tomorrow.
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