Lesson 65 Television Day:Mozart
第65课 电视课:莫扎特
Would you like to be able to play a musical instrument really well?
你希望能熟练地演奏某种乐器吗?
Who wouldn't!
谁不想呢?
Perhaps you are learning to play an instrument now.
或许你现在就在学演奏一种乐器.
Perhaps your mother tells you to practise
或许是你母亲要你练习,
--and perhaps you don't enjoy it!
而你并不喜欢.
We'd all like to play easily and well.
我们都想演奏得轻松,出色.
Mozart could.His parents never told him to practise
莫扎特就行.他的父母从不强迫他练,
They couldn't stop him
他们阻止不了他练习.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756.
沃尔夫冈.阿马德乌斯.莫扎特生于1756年.
He learnt to play the violin at the age of four.
4岁就开始学拉小提琴.
In his short life he wrote a tremendous amount of music.
在他短暂的一生中他写了大量的音乐作品.
Everybody praised Mozart for his wonderful music,
人人都赞扬莫扎特的优美曲子,
but nobody paid him any money.
但没人付他一分钱.
He got poorer and poorer and couldn't pay his bills.
他越来越穷,连帐单都无法支付,
In the end he became ill and died.He was only 35 years old.
最后他病死了只活了35岁.
He is one of the greatest musicians of all time.
他是历代最伟大的音乐家之一.