Hal Willner, music producer, died on April 7th, aged 64.Never mind that he was too young ever to have seen anything like it, he'd never heard anything like it either. The fans shrieking, the popping flash bulbs, the mics swimming with feedback. More than 50 years later, he told a reporter that hardly a fortnight went by without him recalling that Beatles gig in Philadelphia's Convention Hall in 1964. "Well, shake it up baby. Twist and shout. Come on, come on, come on now..."
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音乐制作人哈尔·维尔纳于4月7日去世，享年64岁。别担心他太年轻，从来没见过这样的东西，也从来没听过这样的东西。尖叫的粉丝，爆裂的闪光灯，回荡着噪声的麦克风。50多年后，他告诉记者，几乎每两个星期他都会想起1964年在费城的会议大厅里披头士乐队的演出。“摇起来宝贝们。扭摆吧，呼喊吧。来吧，疯起来...”

For the eight-year-old nerd who'd been offered a ticket to the concert by a customer in his father's deli, shaking it up was not just an affirmation of life, it became a talisman against dying. Death played a big part in the making of Hal Willner. His father, Carl, who was born in Poland in 1923 and is still alive, survived two ghettoes, four labour camps and three death camps—Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau. An ss guard tattooed the number on his arm. After the war Carl and his younger brother, Chiel, emigrated to America.
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8岁的书呆子哈尔的门票来自父亲熟食店的一个顾客，对他来说，摇摆身体不仅是对生命的一种肯定，它还成为了对抗死亡的护身符。死亡对哈尔·威尔纳的塑造起了很大的作用。他的父亲卡尔1923年出生于波兰，至今仍健在。他曾生活在两个贫民窟、四个劳改营，进过三个死亡集中营——奥斯威辛、布痕瓦尔德和达豪，并幸存了下来。一个党卫军把数字刺在他的手臂上。战后卡尔和他的弟弟基尔移居美国。

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1.shake up使心烦意乱；激动
The jockey was shaken up when he was thrown twice from his horse yesterday...
昨天赛马骑师两次从马背上被摔下来,受惊了。

2.go on继续
While this conversation was going on, I was listening with earnest attention...
这场对话进行的时候，我聚精会神地听着。

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