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高中英語課文翻譯新人教版必修二Unit 5（英漢對照）
【Reading and Thinking】
THE VIRTUAL CHOIR
虛擬合唱團
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，獨自在家時，你可以和幾百個人一道引吭高歌。虛擬合唱團能夠讓你的想象成為現實。虛擬合唱團的成員們把各自的歌唱視頻錄制下來，上傳到互聯網上，然后這些視頻被合并成一個你可以在線觀看的視頻——虛擬大合唱。任何人，無論身在何地，都可以參加虛擬合唱團——你只需要一部攝像機，并且能夠上網，你連工作室都不需要。虛擬合唱團將普通人聯系起來。許多人沒有親密的朋友，也沒有志趣相投的私交，還有很多人沒有機會參加本地的合唱團。虛擬合唱團讓他們能夠與其他人一起歡歌，成為全球社區的一部分。事實證明，虛擬合唱團對許多人的生活產生了積極的影響。一位虛擬合唱團成員說道：“音樂幫助我……忘記自己的問題。音樂，讓我脫胎換骨。”
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.
虛擬合唱團是獲獎作曲家兼指揮埃里克·惠塔克的創意。惠塔克于1970年1月2日生于美國，1988年進入內華達大學學習音樂。在大學合唱團期間，他癡迷于莫扎特的古典音樂。他被這段音樂打動了，他說：“那種（興奮的）感覺就如同是第一次看見色彩一樣。”他1995年大學畢業，隨后于1997年獲紐約茱莉亞音樂學院音樂創作碩士學位。在接下來的十年間，惠塔克的原創作品深受合唱團和歌手的歡迎，這促使他創建了虛擬合唱團。
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 12 different countries. It has received millions of views on the Internet. Since then, the virtual choir has become a worldwide phenomenon. Whitacre’s next effort was the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF, which was first seen on stage on 23 July 2014 in the UK. Altogether, 2,292 young people from 80 countries joined in to sing Whitacre’s song “What If”.
2009年，惠塔克收到了一個女孩的視頻，視頻是女孩演唱他創作的一部作品。受此啟發，惠塔克邀請粉絲們錄制視頻，然后他將這些視頻拼接成一場演出。他創辦的首個虛擬合唱團“金色之光”，擁有來自12個不同國家的185名歌手。該合唱團在互聯網上的點擊量已超過百萬次。自此，虛擬合唱團風靡全球。惠塔克的第二個壯舉是打造聯合國兒童基金會“虛擬青年合唱團”，該團于2014年7月23日在英國首次登臺演出，總共有來自80個國家的2,292名青年參與演唱惠塔克的歌曲《假如》。
The virtual choir is a wonderful way for people around the world to sing with one voice and thus make the world a better place.
虛擬合唱團提供了一種美妙的方式，讓世界各地的人們能夠同聲歌唱，世界因此變得更加美好。
【Reading for Writing】
Good morning! My name is Sarah Williams. It’s an honour to be here and to share with you the story of how music has had an impact on my life.
上午好！我叫莎拉·威廉姆斯。非常榮幸來到這里與大家分享音樂是如何影響了我的人生的。
Have you ever faced a time when things looked dark and you had no hope at all Two years ago, I was told I had a serious disease which was difficult to cure. My body ached all the time and thus I thought I didn’t have much longer to live. I was very afraid and I felt so alone and discouraged. Then one day, I had to go through a two-hour medical treatment. The doctor wanted me to relax, so he had me listen to some music, and one of the songs was “Happy”. The song made me feel so much better that from then on I began to listen to music all the time. John A. Logan said, “Music is the medicine of the mind.” And it’s true. Music helped me recover.
你是否曾經歷過黯淡無光、萬念俱灰的一段時光？兩年前，我被告知得了一種很難治愈的嚴重疾病，全身一直疼痛，覺得自己活不了多久了。我非常害怕，感到十分孤獨、沮喪。后來有一天，我需要去做兩個小時的治療。醫生想要我放松，就讓我聽一些音樂，其中一首歌是《快樂》。聽著這首歌，我感覺好多了；從此之后，我開始一直聽音樂。約翰·A·洛根曾說：“音樂是心靈的良藥。”的確如此，音樂助我康復。
Music gave me happiness. When I listened to music, it made my spirits fly like a kite in the wind. Music gave me strength and brought me relief. It was the rock I leant on to become strong and to get through those hard times. Moreover, music gave me hope and a sense of satisfaction. It became my best friend. It spoke words of encouragement to the deepest part of my being.
音樂給我帶來了快樂。當我聽音樂的時候，音樂讓我的心情放飛，像風中的風箏。音樂給予我力量，也讓我得到解脫。音樂是巖石，讓我倚靠，變得堅強，度過那些艱難的日子。不僅如此，音樂還給予我希望和滿足感。音樂成了我最好的朋友，它（音樂）使我的內心深受鼓舞。
Of course, I hope none of you have to go through the same kind of suffering that I did. At the same time, we all go through various periods when we feel sad or alone. During those times, music can help you in the same way that it helped me. I hope all of you will somehow begin to treasure music and make it a part of your life.
當然，我希望你們不要經歷和我一樣的痛苦。同時，我們都會經歷悲傷或孤獨的時光。在那時，音樂可以幫助你，就像它曾經幫助我一樣。我希望大家都能以某種方式開始珍惜音樂，讓音樂成為你生活的一部分。
Thank you!
謝謝大家。

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