A Lasting Friendship高山流水遇知音

During the Spring and Autumn Period， there was a great musician" Yu Boya（俞伯牙）. He was good at playing the Guqin（古琴）.

One day during a boat trip， Yu Boya took out his Guqin and played. A young woodsman stood on the riverbank enjoying the music. His name was Zhong Ziqi（钟子期）.

Yu Boya invited Zhong Ziqi to the boat and played the Guqin for him. He played the Guqin to express his love for the mountains.

Wonderful！ It seems that the mountains are just before my eyes！

Oh！ Really？

Beautiful！ It is like hundreds of boats sailing down big rivers！

Boya was surprised. He then played another tune.

Now it is like the spring rain dripping on lotus leaves; now like the autumn breeze singing in the moonlight; now like the strong wind...

Oh！ My goodness！ Whenever I play a different tune， you can tell what I am thinking！ You really understand my music.

So they became best friends. And they made plans to meet again in the same place next year.

The following year， Boya arrived on time. But he found that Ziqi had died of an illness. This made Boya very sad. He took out the Guqin and played the music of the High Mountains and Flowing Water. He said， “My best friend is dead. No one understands my music now.” Then he broke the Guqin and never played it again.

Boya and Ziqi shared the same interest（兴趣爱好相同）. They understood each other well. How good it is to have a friend like this！

1.Spring and Autumn Period春秋战国时期

2.musician /mjuˈzɪʃ（ə）n/ n.音乐家

名词后缀-ian表示：

①从事某职业或精于某技术的人。如：librarian图书管理员，musician音乐家

②某国家或地区的人。如：Canadian加拿大人，Italian意大利人

3.woodsman /ˈwʊdzmən/ n.樵夫

名词后缀-man表示从事某种职业的人。 如：

4.riverbank /ˈrɪvəbæŋk/ n.河岸

这是一个合成词。river意为“河流”，bank在此处意为“河岸”，riverbank意为“河岸”，即河流旁边的陆地部分。

5.express /ɪkˈspres/ v. 表达

如：Words cannot express how happy I am.

言语无法表达我的愉快心情。

6.seem /siːm/ v.似乎

It seems that...看起来好像……

如：It seems that Mr Brown doesn’t like his job very much.

布朗先生好像不是很喜欢他的工作。

7.hundred /'hʌndrəd/ n. 百

①数字+hundred+可数名词复数，表示具体的数目“几百”，如：

one hundred books 一百本书

two hundred trees 两百棵树

five hundred cars 五百辆汽车

②hundreds of+可数名词复数，表示“数百的”。如：

hundreds of books数百本书

hundreds of trees数百棵树

hundreds of cars数百辆车

8.sail /seɪl/ v. 航行

短语：go sailing

去航行

拓展：sailor n.水手

9.tune /tjuːn/ n.曲子

如：She is trying to play that tune on the piano.

她正尝试在钢琴上弹奏那首曲子。

10.drip /drɪp/ v.滴下

11.lotus /'ləʊtəs/ n.荷花

词组：lotus leaves荷叶

12.breeze /briːz/ n.微风

13.moonlight /'muːnlaɪt/ n.月光

die of表示“死于……”，如：

The old man died of heart trouble.这个老人死于心脏问题。

15.break /breɪk/ v.打破，打碎，折断（过去式：broke）

如：I’m going to break the pencil.我要折断这支铅笔。

He broke the window of his neighbor.他打碎了邻居家的玻璃。