高中英语课文翻译新人教版必修二Unit 5 Music（英汉对照）（素材）

高中英语课文翻译新人教版必修二Unit 5（英汉对照） 【Reading and Thinking】 THE VIRTUAL CHOIR 虚拟合唱团 Imagine having the opportunity to sing together with hundreds of other people while you are at home alone. You can do this in a virtual choir. Virtual choir members record themselves while they perform alone on video. These videos are uploaded onto the Internet, and then they are put together into one video that you can see online — a virtual choir. Anyone can take part in a virtual choir from anywhere — all you need is a video camera and an Internet connection. You do not even need a studio. A virtual choir helps connect ordinary people together. Many people do not have close friends or contacts who have the same interest in music. Many others do not have the chance to join a local choir. A virtual choir enables them to add their voices to those of other individuals and become part of the global community. It has proved to be a positive influence on the lives of many people. As one virtual choir member said, “Music helps me to ... forget my problems. With music, I become someone else.” 想象一下，独自在家时，你可以和几百个人一道引吭高歌。虚拟合唱团能够让你的想象成为现实。虚拟合唱团的成员们把各自的歌唱视频录制下来，上传到互联网上，然后这些视频被合并成一个你可以在线观看的视频———虚拟大合唱。任何人，无论身在何地，都可以参加虚拟合唱团———你只需要一部摄像机，并且能够上网，你连工作室都不需要。虚拟合唱团将普通人联系起来。许多人没有亲密的朋友，也没有志趣相投的私交，还有很多人没有机会参加本地的合唱团。虚拟合唱团让他们能够与其他人一起欢歌，成为全球社区的一部分。事实证明，虚拟合唱团对许多人的生活产生了积极的影响。一位虚拟合唱团成员说道：“音乐帮助我……忘记自己的问题。音乐，让我脱胎换骨。” The virtual choir was the idea of award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre. Born in the USA on 2 January 1970, Whitacre began studying music at the University of Nevada in 1988. He fell in love with Mozart’s classical music when he sang for the university choir. Moved by this music, he said, “It was like seeing color for the first time.” He graduated from university in 1995, and then received a master’s degree in musical composition from the Juilliard School in New York in 1997. Over the next 10 years, Whitacre’s original compositions began to become quite popular among choirs and singers. This led to the creation of the virtual choir. 虚拟合唱团是获奖作曲家兼指挥埃里克·惠塔克的创意。惠塔克于1970年1月2日生于美国，1988年进入内华达大学学习音乐。在大学合唱团期间，他痴迷于莫扎特的古典音乐。他被这段音乐打动了，他说：“那种（兴奋的）感觉就如同是第一次看见色彩一样。”他1995年大学毕业，随后于1997年获纽约茱莉亚音乐学院音乐创作硕士学位。在接下来的十年间，惠塔克的原创作品深受合唱团和歌手的欢迎，这促使他创建了虚拟合唱团。 In 2009, Whitacre received a video of a girl who was singing one of his works. Inspired, he asked his fans to make videos, which he then joined together into one performance. His first virtual choir, “Lux Aurumque”, had 185 singers from 1 ... ...