英文阅读笔记 |《Financial Times》2016 Vol.1 - 02 (待更)
02 - 2016：巨星陨落之年
David Bowie dies of cancer aged 69
David Bowie was one of the most influential musicians of his time, constantly re-inventing his persona and sound, from the 1960s hippy of Space Oddity, through Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke to his later incarnation as a soulful rocker
Where before, artists and groups either evolved their musical style and appearance or remained unchanging, David Bowie seemed to be in permanent revolution.
Just as he blazed a trail through the world of rock'n'roll, David Bowie gave financial markets something they had never seen before—pop bonds.
In 1997, the musician, whose death was announced a, sold $55m of “Bowie Bonds”, securities backed by current and future revenues of the 25 albums he recorded before 1990.
persona: the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others. 人物形象
oddity:
- a strange or peculiar person, thing, or trait. 怪人
- the quality of being strange or peculiar. 怪癖
incarnation: a person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or abstract quality. 赋与肉体
soulful: expressing or appearing to express deep and often sorrowful feeling. 深情的; 抒情的
blaze:
1. burn fiercely or brightly: "plumes of smoke rose from fires blazing around the city"
2. (of a gun) fire repeatedly or indiscriminately: "we went in with guns blazing"
blaze a trail:
1: to show a trail with marks on trees: We followed a trail that others had blazed. 2: to be the first one to do something and to show others how to do it: The company blazed a trail with the first small computers. She blazed a trail for other women in politics.
