第二步：精读重点段落

（Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦）

第03段
The photograph on the front of Dylan’s second LP, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, encapsulates a remarkable time and place. For a period nearly half a century ago this grid of streets, barely a couple of square miles in total, generated a buzz of creative energy that forged Dylan’s artistic sensibility. “The air was bitter cold, always below zero, but the fire in my mind was never out,” he recalls in his memoir, Chronicles.

• Encapsulate a time and place 封存了时间和地点
• A buzz of 嗡嗡声／喝酒吸毒等产生的兴奋
• Bitter cold 刺骨寒冷

第04段
Greenwich Village – or just The Village – is a different place today and Dylan went west long ago. But the architectural mixture of classic tenements and grander, Federal-style townhouses is largely intact. And the spirit of the “original vagabond” who fetched up here in January 1961, and whose words and music shaped new ways of looking at the modern world, still clings to its fire escapes, backstreet cobbles and more outré street characters.

• Fetch up 引起／到达／最终成为
• Shape ways of looking 塑造面貌
• Cling to 坚持／依附

第07段
It was his former lover, Joan Baez, who called him a vagabond. The word captures the way in which he just turned up in “the city that would come to shape my destiny” with a readymade back catalogue of tall stories about himself and, in his own assessment, a mind that “was strong like a trap”.

• Turn up 出现／发生
• Shape one’s destiny 塑造命运
• In one’s assessment 某人的评估

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Touring Bob Dylan’s New York

[1] We stand on the spot and Terre Grilli holds up a photocopy to compare the scene with the present day. “One thing I notice are the trees,” she says. “There are no trees on the block in ’63.” And in place of the blue VW campervan parked on the left is an SUV with blacked-out windows.

• photocopy n. v. 影印／复印
• campervan n. 露营车

[2] It was a snowy day in February, 1963, in the heart of Greenwich Village, New York City. The photographer, Don Hunstein, set up on West 4th Street and shot plum down Jones Street as Bob Dylan and his then girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, walked up the middle of Jones towards the camera. Bob thrust his hands deep in his jeans pockets, Suze clung on to his arm – and the result is one of rock music’s most famous album covers.

• plum n. 李子／adj. 令人满意的
• thrust v. n.刺／插入
• cling vi. 坚持／紧贴／附着

[3] The photograph on the front of Dylan’s second LP, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, encapsulates a remarkable time and place. For a period nearly half a century ago this grid of streets, barely a couple of square miles in total, generated a buzz of creative energy that forged Dylan’s artistic sensibility. “The air was bitter cold, always below zero, but the fire in my mind was never out,” he recalls in his memoir, Chronicles.

• encapsulates v. 压缩／概述／装入胶囊
• grid n.网格／输电网
• forged v. n. v.伪造／锻造
• bitter adv.激烈地／严寒刺骨地
• memoir n.回忆录
• Chronicles n. vt.编年

[4] Greenwich Village – or just The Village – is a different place today and Dylan went west long ago. But the architectural mixture of classic tenements and grander, Federal-style townhouses is largely intact. And the spirit of the “original vagabond” who fetched up here in January 1961, and whose words and music shaped new ways of looking at the modern world, still clings to its fire escapes, backstreet cobbles and more outré street characters.

• intact adj. 完整的／未受损伤的
• vagabond n. adj.流浪者／游手好闲者
• cobbles n. 鹅卵石
• outré adj. 怪诞的／惊人的

[5] Terre Grilli, a 52-year-old folk music enthusiast, runs guided tours aimed at invoking that spirit. The tours are arranged privately and are pretty laid-back, very much in the freewheelin’ spirit of those Village days of the Sixties. “It’s kind of a labor of love,” she said. “We don’t advertise. It’s for fans.”

• invoke v. 祈求／唤起
• laid-back adj. 闲散的

[6] We meet on Hudson St at West 11th, across the street from the White Horse Tavern. This old longshoremen’s dive (the Hudson River is just three blocks west) has an impeccable bohemian pedigree: in the 1950s Dylan Thomas, as well as having his name filched by a young kid in Minnesota called Robert Zimmerman, drank his last at the bar before dying a few days later; Norman Mailer supposedly conceived the radical Village Voice newspaper here; and it was a Beat poet hangout. It was also where Dylan listened to the Clancy Brothers singing “rousing rebel songs that would lift the roof”.

• longshoremen’s n. 码头工人
• impeccable adj. 没有缺点的
• bohemian adj. n. 波西米亚
• pedigree n. 血统／家谱／adj. 纯种的
• filched vt. 偷窃
• conceived v. 怀孕／构思
• hangout n. 巢穴／住所／vt. 故意泄露
• rousing adj. 活泼的／使奋起的

[7] It was his former lover, Joan Baez, who called him a vagabond. The word captures the way in which he just turned up in “the city that would come to shape my destiny” with a readymade back catalogue of tall stories about himself and, in his own assessment, a mind that “was strong like a trap”.
[8] “You would come to town and try to establish yourself and sleep on floors,” says Terre, leading me round to one of his crash pads, in Perry St. “You had no money for an apartment.” At 129 Perry – dingy brick, green fire escape – he slept on the floor of Carla Rotolo, Suze’s elder sister. Here, as well as meeting Suze, he would plunder Carla’s extensive folk record collection for ideas for his first album. “Carla really big-sistered Bob,” says Terre.

• crash n. v. 撞碎／坠落
• dingy adj. 昏暗肮脏的
• plunder n. v. 掠夺

[9] The folk singer Dave Van Ronk, whom Dylan described as “king of the street”, lived several blocks north-east on Waverly Place. Terre indicates number 190, a grey tenement building with a bright orange door. “Bob has talked about staying on the couch here,” she says. “Tom Paxton used to come by. And who’s observing all this?” Terre jerks her thumb over her shoulder. “Behind us at 191 lived [the journalist] Bob Shelton. “He was responsible for the New York Times review that catapulted Bob’s career.” She opens her ring binder and flicks to a copy of the review, of a set Bob played at the famous venue Gerde’s Folk City, in September 1961 (“20-year-old singer is bright new face,” runs the headline).

• catapulted n. v. 用弹弓弹射／猛投
• ring binder 扣眼活页夹
• flicks v. n. 轻弹／忽然摇动

[10] “You have to remember, the whole of Macdougal was lined with coffeehouses,” says Terre. At 116, in the basement, was The Gaslight, now a lounge bar called Alibi. “Hard to believe but this was a premier place to play,” she says. The Gaslight didn’t have a drinks license, so after and in between sets they would all pile next door to the Kettle of Fish. The bar is now called the Esperanto Cafe. The hipster geeks sitting at its window tables with their skinny lattes and mint-thin laptops look the same age, 21, as Bob would have been when, in the sweaty basement next door, he first performed A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.

• lounge n. v. 休息室／闲逛
• premier adj. 第一的／最初的／n. 总理／首相
• hipster n. 时髦人物／颓废派／adj. 低到臀部的

[11] Terre’s tour is exhaustive and fascinating – the former Commons coffeehouse in Minetta St where he wrote Blowin’ in the Wind; the former residential Hotel Earle where he lived for a while and which Joan Baez, in her bittersweet love song about Dylan, Diamonds and Rust, refers to as “that crummy hotel over Washington Square”; the magical spot on West 4th where he freewheeled with Suze Rotolo in the snow.

• Exhaustive adj. 详尽的／消耗的
• fascinating adj. v. （使）迷人的／（使）陶醉的
• bittersweet adj. n. 苦乐参半
• crummy adj. 微不足道的／寒酸的
• freewheeled vi. 靠惯性滑行／随心所欲

[12] Twelve months after that album cover was shot, Dylan had found fame and broke up with Suze, who inspired Tomorrow Is a Long Time. Those halcyon coffeehouse days were over.

• halcyon adj. 平稳的／宁静的

[13] He has left no tangible mark on the Village – no plaques, statues or stores selling memorabilia – but that’s in keeping with the man. “Everything was always new, always changing,” he wrote in Chronicles. “It was never the same crowd upon the streets.”

• memorabilia n. 大事记／值得纪念的事物