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高中翻译
P1
Some
of
the
world
’
s
most
famous
musicians
recently
gathered
in
Paris
and
New
Orleans
to celebrate the first annual International Jazz
Day.
UNESCO (United Nations
Educational, Science and Cultural Organization)
recently set
April 30 as a day to raise
awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its
potentially
as a unifying voice across
cultures.
Despite the celebration, though, in the
US the jazz audience continues to shrink anfd
grow older, and the music has failed to
connect with younger generations.
It
’
s
Jason
’
s job to help change
that. As the Kennedy
Center
’
s artistic adviser
for jazz.
Jason
hopes
to
widen
the
audience
for
jazz,
make
the
music
more
accessible,
and
preserve its history and culture.
“
Jazz seems like
it
’
s not really a part of
the American appetite,
”
Jason tells National
Public
Radio
’
s reporter.
”
What
I
’
m
hoping
to
accomplish
is that
my generation
and
younger start to reconsider and
understand that jazz is not black and white
anymore.
It
’
s
actually color, and it
’
s
actually digital.
”
Jason says one of the
problems with jazz today is that entertainment
aspect of the
music
has been
lost.
“
The
music
can
’
t
be
present today the
way it
was
in
1908
or
1958. It
has to continue to move, because the way the world
works is not the same,
”
says Jason.
P2
I just got back from an extraodinary
trip to the Arctic North of Norway, and I am left
feeling
exhilarated
and
alarmed
at
the
same
time.
I
knew
before
I
went
that
the
Arctic
was
the
center
of
global
warming,
but
seeing
the
changes
firsthand
is
haunting.
There
is
one
scene
I
will
never
forget.
It
came
just
a
few
days
into
the
trip.
I
was
onboard the ship
National Geography Endeavor, and was halfway
between the Arctic
Circle and the North
Pole. I had never been so far north or in a remote
place on Earth.
But
I
was
in
a
good
company.
The
Aspen
Institute
had
invited
100
politicians,
scientists,
businessmen,
religions
and
labor
leaders
to
see
the
impact
of
global
warming with their own eyes.