Lesson One
Rock Superstars: What Do They Tell Us about Ourlves and Our Society
背景知识（Background knowledge）
Rock Music
A form of popular music is characterized by a pronounced, amplified beat. Electric guitars are almost always the main instrumental sound source. The modem rock band's basic elements are one or more vocalists, an electric lead guitar and bass guitar and drums. A rhythm guitar is often included, and many bands also u keyboards. "Rock-and-roll" was coined in the mid-1950 by a Cleveland broadcaster, Alan Freed, to replace "rhythm-and-blues"——a term that Freed thought had too many racial overtones'. (It was being called "race music" in some quarters at the time.)
Rhythm-and-blues was itlf an updated, urbanized stylization of the blues, which had been developed mainly by rural or country-oriented black musicians. When the music was renam
ed rock-and-roll, it also underwent an elemental change, particularly when white performers saw how eagerly young audiences responded. "White" music——that is esntially conventional popular music with a decided country-and-western flavor——was blended with rhythm-and-blues, and young people continued to hold a proprietary attitude about it. Rock went through its share of phas and participated in a number of pop culture fads.
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女婿致悼词范文课文要义（Main idea of the text）
The author focus on the social influences of the rock music in terms of sociology. By contrasting different attitudes toward the rock among the young and adult audience, the author points out that rock is rved as an expression of social ideas, and also provides a debating stage for different ideas. Rock 'n' roll stars express the young generation's viewpoints on various political and social problems, and also help the society e its own beliefs and attitudes, and express the young men's feelings and hope.
词汇 (Vocabulary)
1. adulation: (n.) excessive admiration or prai; flattery
The magazine is full of the fan’s adulation of their favorite pop stars.
杂志上充满了歌迷对他们所喜爱的歌手的吹捧。
adulate: (v.) flatter
He respected science without adulating it. 他尊重科学而不迷信科学。
The leaders are easily adulated . 领导容易受逢迎.
adulator (n.)=ass-kisr/ apple-polisher/ toad-eater 溜须拍马的人
2. affluent: prosperous
3. ban: (v.) officially forbid
ban the u of nuclear weapons/chemical weapons
4. bewilderment: (n.) confusion 困惑, state of being confud.
The child watched the noisy crowd in bewilderment. 孩子目瞪口呆地看着嘈杂的人群。
Young people usually bewildered by the adult world. 年青人总是被成人世界里的事情所迷惑。
bewilder: (v.) confu [bewilder (v.)=confu, esp. with numerous conflicting situations, objects or statement.]
The city traffic often bewildered me when I was young. 小时候，城市交通常使我不知所措。
Big city 's traffic bewilders me . 大城市的交通使我不知所措.
bewildering (adj.) very confusing 令人迷惑不解的
What she had said was bewildering to me . 她所说的令我迷惑不解.
bewildered (adj.) completely puzzled 迷惑不解
He was bewildered by her question . 他被她的问题弄得不知所措.
5. baptismal (adj.)-baptism (n.)=ceremony marking a person’s admission into the Christian Church by sprinkling him with water.洗礼
e.g. baptism of fire 长春攻略首次严峻的考验
baptize (v.)
6. celebrate: (v.) prai; honor
Today his words and deeds are celebrated throughout the land. 今天他的言行受到全国人民的赞颂。
The deeds of many heroes are celebrated by poets. 许多英雄的行为受到诗人的赞美。
7. conceive 设想，想出，想像conceive of sth.
五谷丰收 以-ceive为词根的有conceive, perceive（理解，感知）, deceive （欺骗）
You cannot conceive how rude he is to me. 你无法想象他对我是多么粗鲁。
8. clash and crash: （押头韵alliteration） be in conflict with sth.
crash: go bankrupt
My business crashed last year.
9. crawl: crawling on one’s knees. a crawling snake, crawling traffic/cars
creep: move slowly, quietly and cretly.
climb: up the tree
10. crunch—scream尖叫
crunch发出嘈杂声地走，嘎吱作响地走 means screaming
11. disaffection不满
affectionate (adj.)
12. 自然灾害手抄报drive: n. energy; capacity to get things done
He is a young man with brains, drive and initiative. 他年轻，有头脑，有精力，还有进取心。
The new headmaster is lacking in drive. 新校长缺乏魄力。
13. editorialize: (v.) announce editorial （报刊）发表社论,
means publish a editorial to make remark or make comment about something.
All the local papers editorialized on the subject. 当地所有报纸都对这一问题发表了社论。
Youth editorialized against depriving poor children of opportunities to be educated.
青年报发表社论反对剥夺贫穷孩子受教育的机会。金三角杨坤
edit—editor—editorial—editorialize
editor-in-chief（主编）
14. embody: (v.) express or give visible form to ideas, feelings, etc. ; include or contain st
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h. 体现
=express表达
怎么用英语骂人To me, he embodies all the best qualities of a teacher. 在我看来，他身上体现了教师应有的一切优秀品质。
It’s necessary for the officials to embody principles in actions. 对官员们来说，用行动体现原则很有必要。
Words embody thought. 文字表达思想.
Dove is the embodiment of peace. 鸽子是和平的象征.
Usually rock music embodies the rebellion sprit of the younger generation.摇滚乐体现了年青人的反叛精神。
