西部音乐;Western music

太美了！It's so beautiful!

蓝色多瑙河The Blue Danube

嗯，这是西方音乐，不是吗？你能听到小提琴和钢琴的声音吗？ Hmm, this is Western music, isn't it? Can you hear the violin and the piano?

太美了！这是斯特劳斯的还是莫扎特的？It's so beautiful! Is this by Strauss or Mozart?

我不确定 I'm not sure

是斯特劳斯写的It's by Strauss,

我喜欢他的音乐！托尼，你了解他吗？ I love his music! Do you know anything about him, Tony?

他是德国人吗？Was he German?

不，他出生在奥地利首都维也纳， No, he was born in Vienna, the capital of Austria,

多么美丽的城市啊！这就是蓝色多瑙河， What a beautiful city! This is called The Blue Danube,

多瑙河是欧洲的一条河流，流经维也纳， The Danube is a river in Europe, It goes through Vienna,

你两个都喜欢吗， Do you like both,

贝蒂，你听流行音乐吗？ You listen to pop music, Betty?

对，我两个都喜欢， Well, I like both,

玲玲，你听流行音乐，是吗？是的，我是。 You listen to pop music, Lingling ,don't you? Yes, I do,

我也喜欢京剧，听这些美妙的声音， I also like Beijing opera, Listen to this fantastic voice,

嗯，声音很不一样，不是吗？我是摇滚乐迷，Hmm, the sound is very different, isn't it? I'm a fan of rock music,

听这个！嘿，让我们休息一下！ Listen to this!Hey! Give us a break!

摇滚乐？听那些击鼓声，太吵了！太快了！ Rock music? Listen to those drums, It's so noisy! And much too fast!

你不喜欢摇滚乐？我不相信！You don't like rock music? I don't believe it!

维也纳是欧洲古典音乐的中心，Vienna is the centre of European classical music,

音乐之城The city of music

维也纳是欧洲中部多瑙河畔一座美丽的古城，Vienna is a beautiful old city on the River Danube in the centre of Europe,

它是奥地利的首都，也是欧洲古典音乐的中心， It's the capital city of Austria and the centre of European classical music,

18世纪，许多音乐家来到维也纳学习和工作， In the eighteenth century a lot of musicians came to study and work in Vienna,

在施特劳斯家族中，有两位作曲家叫约翰·施特劳斯：父亲和儿子，In the Strauss family, there were two composers called Johann Strauss: the father and the son,

父亲约翰·施特劳斯为名为华尔兹的传统舞蹈创作并演奏音乐， The father, Johann Strauss the elder, wrote and played music for traditional dances, called the waltz,

他的舞曲使他闻名于欧洲， His dance music made him famous all over Europe,

他的儿子，小约翰·施特劳斯，也非常成功和受欢迎， The son, Johann Strauss the younger, was also very successful and popular,

他写了150多首华尔兹， He wrote over 150 waltzes,

1867年，他创作了蓝色多瑙河华尔兹， In eighteen sixty-seven he wrote The Blue Danube waltz,

莫扎特是另一位非常重要的作曲家，Mozart was another very important composer,

他1756年出生在奥地利， He was born in Austria in seventeen fifty-six,

在他六岁之前，他不仅会弹钢琴，还会拉小提琴， Before he was six, he played not only the piano but also the violin,

他的家人带他周游欧洲，他在许多城市举办音乐会， His family took him around Europe and he gave concerts in many cities,

他写了数百首美妙的音乐， He wrote hundreds of wonderful pieces of music,

但他非常贫穷，1791年去世，当时他只有35岁， But he became very poor and died in seventeen ninety-one when he was only 35,

像约翰·施特劳斯父子一样，他是一位伟大的欧洲音乐家，许多人仍然认为他的音乐是完美的， Like Johann Strauss, father and son, he was a great European musician, and many people still think his music is perfect,