1 ring out：when a sound rings out, it is clear and loud.

Those words rang out across the Internet last week. 上周这样的言论在网络上广泛流传。

2 slate：a Slate article. Slate is a journal's name.

3 gravestone: a stone shows where a dead person is buried. A gravestone illustration过时的例子？？

4 hoary：very old and familiar and therefore not interesting or funny,

5  cliche: a saying or remark that is very often made and is therefore not original and not interesting陈词滥调

6 obituary：a report, especially in a newspaper, that gives the news of someone's death and details of their life 讣告

7 timing：the time when sth happens时机

8 Fold: fail. New York City Opera folded last fall. 纽约市里歌剧院倒闭了

9 orchestra：管弦乐队

10 lockout：an occasion when an employer prevent workers from entering their places of work until they agree to particular condition

11 emerge: 1) to appear by coming out of sth or out from behind sth 2) to come to the end of a difficult period or experience 3) to become known

The Minnesota Orchestra emerged from a fifteen-month lockout crisis

12 philharmonic: 交响乐团

13 symphony：交响乐

14 spasm：an occasion when a muscle suddenly become tighter in a way that can't be controlled 肌肉抽搐 痉挛

15 bring on：to induce or cause:

What brought on this latest spasm of morbidity?

16 morbidity: the morbidity of a disease is how many people have it in a particular population发病率

17 fixate: to think about sth too much and find it difficult to stop

18 imminent: coming or likely to happen very soon

19 demise: the end of sth that is previously considered to be very powerful

Whey is the american media so fixated on the supposedly imminent demise of classical music?

20 musicologist音乐家 音乐理论家

Musicology: the study of the history, theory and science of music

21 eloquently：giveing a strong clear message