3 Vinyl Favored at DC Records Fair 黑胶唱片在华盛顿唱片集会上走俏

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When Americans buy music today，it is usually in the form of MP3s or CDs.But years ago，record albums were made on black circles made of the plastic material called vinyl.Christopher Cruise tells about a recent event near Washington that celebrated the vinyl recording media of the past.

今天，当美国人购买音乐产品的时候，通常都是以 MP3 或者 CD 的形式。但是数年前，唱片是在一种叫作乙烯基的塑胶材料所制成的黑色圆盘上录制的。最近在华盛顿附近举行了一场缅怀已成为过往的黑胶唱片的盛会，克里斯托弗·克鲁斯带来报道。

听力破解：本段中made of被连读为[′meidəv]；另外播音员重读了vinyl（乙烯基），点明了新闻的主要内容。

词汇宝典：vinyl是“乙烯基、乙烯树脂”的意思，由于它是制造早期唱片的主要材料，所以也有“黑胶唱片”的意思。

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Until about thirty years ago，record albums were made of pressed vinyla bout thirty centimeters across.They were not nearly as transportable as today's recordings.And you needed a large turntable device on which to play the records.

In the nineteen eighties，cassette tape recordings began to outsell vinyl records.Cassettes were smaller and easier to carry around.They could be played on smaller devices as well.

直到大约30年以前，唱片还是由乙烯基材料压制而成，直径大约 30厘米。它们远不如现在的唱片方便携带。而且要播放这些唱片还需要一台很大的唱盘。

在20世纪80年代，盒式磁带的销量开始超过黑胶唱片。盒式磁带更小更容易携带，也能在小型装置上播放。

听力破解：cassettetape前一个[t]失去爆破，读作[kə′seteip]。

词汇宝典：outsell是由out和sell组成的复合词，表示“比……卖得多”；类似的组合还有outpace（超越；跑得比……快）。

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Then，a few years later，music CDs were developed for mass market.Even later came the MP3.By this time most music lovers had stored or thrown away their vinyl albums.

几年之后，CD出现在大众市场上，之后又有了MP3。此时，大多数的音乐爱好者们已经把他们的黑胶唱片珍藏起来或者扔掉了。

听力破解：developed for当爆破音[t]后接摩擦音[f]的时候，前面的爆破音有十分轻微的爆破，而后面的摩擦音则要完全爆破。

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But vinyl records are now making something of a comeback.Their biggest fans can be found among young people.There were many of them at a recent DC Record Fair held in Silver Spring，Maryland.

Tens of thousands of vinyl recordings were onsale at the Record Fair.And，hundreds of people were waiting to buy.

但现如今，黑胶唱片再度流行起来。它们最忠实的追随者多为年轻人，最近在马里兰州的银泉市举办的DC唱片集市上就有很多。数万张黑胶唱片在该唱片集市上出售，等候购买的有数千人。

听力破解：hundreds of连读为[′hʌndrədzəv]。

词汇宝典：come back是动词词组，有“回来，恢复原状，重新流行”的意思，合写时 comeback做名词，表示“恢复；复原”的意思。

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Chenae Brown is a nineteen-year-old college student.She bought ten albums for about twenty dollars at the fair.She told us she did not even have a turntable for playing them.

金奈·布朗是位 19 岁的大学生。她在集市上花了约20美元购买了10张唱片。她告诉我们她甚至连播放唱片的唱盘都还没有。

听力破解：bought ten前一个[t]失去爆破，读作[bɔ：′ten]，注意不要误认为是一个单词

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“I like the idea of buying something older.You know，instead of just going on iTunes and buying it.I like this，it's exciting tofind records that，you know，came out twenty years ago and you can buy it for two dollars.”

“我喜欢买比较旧的东西，而不是简单地登录iTunes购买。我喜欢这样，能找到20年前问世的唱片很令人兴奋，而且只要2美元就能买到。”

听力破解：came out 连读为[keim′aut]。