假如你在倾听,你可以听见水流声。
有一条河叫不归河,
它有时风平浪静,有时波涛汹涌。
爱情是不归河上的游子,
永远顺着水流冲击而下,
最后迷失在波涛汹涌的江河。
我能听到汹涌的河水顺势而下,哗哗作响,
不归还,不归还,不归还。
那声音就是我的爱人在呼唤:
“回到我身边!”
不归还,不归还,不归还。
我在河上失去爱人,
我的心将永远企盼。
永远地走了,我的爱人,
“水流声,水流声……”
他将永远不归还,
不归还,不归还……
【注释】
①这首歌曾由美国著名影星玛丽莲·梦露演唱,她那特有的磁性嗓音及唱歌演戏的神韵,至今仍让许多人魂萦梦牵。
【语言点解析】
1.Mm,if you listen you can hear it call “wailerie”.
=If you listen,you can hear the sound of the flowing water in the river.假如你专心倾听,你可以听到河水的水流声。
It=the River of No Return.
Wailerie:指水流的声音。
2.Sometimes it’s peaceful and sometimes wild and free.
=Sometimes the river is quiet and sometimes it’s rough.
peaceful:这里指河水风平浪静。
wild and free:这里指河水波涛汹涌。
3.Love is a traveler on the river of no return,swept on forever to be lost in the stormy sea.
=Love is like a traveler on the river of no return,who is swept on forever to be lost in the stormy sea.爱就像不归河上的游子,永远顺着水流冲击而下,最后迷失在波涛汹涌的海上。
sweep:横扫,席卷。
sweep on中的on是副词,表“继续不断”之意。
stormy:狂风暴雨的。
例如:
The boat and all its men were lost in the stormy night.在那个暴风雨的夜晚,小船和船上的人都失踪了。
4.Where the roaring water falls.
=where the roaring water falling down the river of no return.
roaring:咆哮的,怒吼的。
5.I can hear my lover call.
=The roaring water sounds as if my love were calling me.就像我的爱人在呼唤。主人公将奔腾不息的河水声比作自己爱人的呼唤。
6.My heart will yearn.
=My heart will yearn for the return of my love.
我将永远企盼着我的爱复还。
yearn (for):desire strongly热切地企盼。
例如:
He yearned for his home and family.他渴望回家与家人相聚。
She yearned to return to her native country.她企盼回归祖国。
【赏析】
只有失恋的人,才能对爱有刻骨铭心的理解。《不归河》这首歌唱出了作者对失去爱人的痛苦和对爱人的呼唤“回到我身边”!然而失去的爱情就如同滚滚东流的江水,一去不复返。
虽然“我的心将永远企盼”,但爱情将永远地顺着水流,消失在波涛汹涌的江河之中。表达了作者对失去心上人的悲伤与无限的惆怅。
White Christmas
I’m dreaming of a White Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the treetops glisten,
And children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow.
I dreaming of aw White Christmas
With ev’ry Christmas card I write:
“May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmasesbe white.”
I’m dreaming of a White Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the treetops glisten,
And children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow,
I dreaming of a White Christmas
With ev’ry Christmas card I write:
“May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmasesbe white.”