1. With
Brexit looming, the Prime Minister is battling Trump, Europe, and her own
party. 朗讀解說 2. May’s task
has been to quell a populist wave, not ride it. Her best hope has been to
contain the damage on all sides. 朗讀解說 3. The British
Prime Minister, Theresa May, often strikes people as cautious, but her
political career has been defined by acts of boldness, often on behalf of
unfashionable causes, or in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances. The
misconception arises in part because she is an awkward person. 朗讀解說
1. What fashion lessons can we learn from Trump’s visit? 朗讀解說
2. Was the Queen sending coded messages to Donald Trump via her brooches? Absolutely. 朗讀解說
3. Her long, yellow dress by the ultra-pricey designer brand J Mendel prompted some wits on social media to compare it with Belle’s gown in the animated Beauty and the Beast, further prompting them to suggest she was implying her husband is a monster. Which is all rather amusing, except that the beast is actually good and smart and selfless, so that’s where the analogy collapses. 朗讀解說
歌曲: A Thousand Kisses Deep 千吻之深
專輯名稱:Ten New Songs 十首新歌
歌手:Leonard Cohen 雷納‧孔恩
發行:SONY, 2001
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語音講解:林文淇於漢聲廣播電台生活掃描節目錄音
英文歌詞
A Thousand Kisses Deep
The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it’s done . . .
Your little winning streak.
And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it’s real,
A thousand kisses deep.
I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on boogie street.
You lose your grip, and then you slip
Into the masterpiece.
And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep:
You ditch it all to stay alive,
A thousand kisses deep.
And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A thousand kisses deep.
Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
I made it to the forward deck.
I blessed our remnant fleet
And then consented to be wrecked,
A thousand kisses deep.
I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on boogie street.
I guess they won’t exchange the gifts
That you were meant to keep.
And quiet is the thought of you,
The file on you complete,
Except what we forgot to do,
A thousand kisses deep.
And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A thousand kisses deep.
The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat . . . 歌詞翻譯
歌曲:A Day in Your Life 生活中的一天
專輯名稱:Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band胡椒班長的寂寞芳心俱樂部
歌手:The Beatles 披頭四
發行:Capitol 1967
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語音講解:林文淇於漢聲廣播電台生活掃描節目錄音
英文歌詞
A Day In The Life
I read the news today oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords
I saw a film today oh, boy
The English army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I love to turn you on.
Woke up, got out of bed
dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
and looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream
I read the news today oh, boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
六0年代紅透至少半個地球的英國四人組披頭四,出品不少暢銷歌曲是簡單的曲調配合簡單但卻直接觸動心弦的歌詞。〈昨日〉(Yesterday)是這類歌曲的代表作之一。但是披頭四在一九六七年至一九六九年間,卻有不少歌曲不僅曲風創新,歌詞更是極其發人深省。〈生活中的一天〉(A Day in the Life)正是這樣的一首歌。歌中的主角的一天中有個名人車禍,大家議論紛紛,十足生活八卦。另一方面戰爭還在繼續
Well I stopped in at the Body Shop
Said to the guy:
I want stereo FM installed in my teeth
And take this mole off my back
and put it on my cheek.
And uh...while I'm here, why don't you give me
some of those high-heeled feet?
And he said: Listen there's no guarantee
Nature's got rules and Nature's got laws
but listen look out for the monkey's paw
And I said: Whaaat? He said:
The gift of life it's a twist of fate
It's a roll of the die
It's a free lunch A free ride
But Nature's got rules and Nature's got laws
And if you cross her look out!
It's the monkey's paw
It's sayin: Haw haw!
It's saying Gimme five!
It's sayin: Bye bye!
I know a man he lost his head
He said: The way I feel I'd be better off dead.
He said: I got everything I ever wanted
Now I can't give it up
It's a trap, just my luck!
The gift of life it's a leap of faith
It's a roll of the die
It's a free lunch A free ride
The gift of life it's a shot in the dark
It's the call of the wild
It's the big wheel The big ride
But Nature's got rules and Nature's got laws
And if you cross her look out!
It's the monkey's paw
You better Stop!
Look around!
Listen!
The gift of life it's a twist of fate
It's a roll of the die
it's a free lunch A free ride
The gift of life it's a shot in the dark
It's the call of the wild
It's the big wheel The big ride
But Nature's got rules and Nature's got laws
And if you cross her look out!
It's the monkey's paw
It's singin': Gimme Five!
It's singin': Bye Bye!
歌曲:Living in the Fridge 活在冰箱裡
專輯名稱:Alapalooza
歌手:"Weird Al" Yankovic 「怪人艾爾」楊科維契
發行:Scotti Bros. 1993
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英文歌詞
Living in the Fridge (改編自Aerosmith 的 "Living on the Edge")
There's something weird in the fridge today
I don't know what it is
Food I can't recognize
My roommate won't throw a thing away
I guess it's probably his
It looks like it's alive...
And livin' in the fridge... livin' in the fridge
Livin' in the fridge... livin' in the fridge
There's something gross in the fridge today
It's green and growin' hair
It's been there since July
If you can name the object
In that baggie over there
Then mister, you're a better man than I
It's livin' in the fridge
You can't stop (dysentery) the mold from growin' (dysentery)
Livin' in the fridge
Can't tell what (dysentary) it is at all (dysentery)
Livin' in the fridge
You can't stop (dysentary) the mold from growin' (dysentery)
Livin' in the fridge
Tell me, do you think it should be carbon dated
Fumigated or cremated and buried at sea?
You try to save a little bit of you're home cookin'
Couple weeks later, got a scary-lookin' specimen
It always happens my friend
Again & again & again & again
Somethin' stinks in the fridge today
And it's been rottin' there all week
It could be liver cake or wooly mammoth steak
Well, maybe I should take another peek...
Livin' in the fridge
You can't stop (dysentary) the mold from growin' (dysentery)
Livin' in the fridge
Can't tell what (dysentery) it is at all (dysentery)
Livin' in the fridge
You can't stop (dysentery) the mold from growin' (dysentery)
Livin' in the fridge
Livin' in the fridge
Don't know what it is, don't know what it is
Livin' in the fridge
Don't know what it is, don't know what it is
Livin' in the fridge
Don't know what it is at all
Livin' in the fridge, yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
liver cake or wooly mammoth steak
豬肝蛋糕或是毛茸茸的古代長毛猛象的象排。(二種都是聽起來極其噁心的不可能食物)。
Aerosmith 的原曲
Living on the Edge
There's somethin' wrong with the world today
I don't know what it is
Something's wrong with our eyes
We're seeing things in a different way
And God knows it ain't His
It sure ain't no surprise
We're livin' on the edge
We're livin' on the edge
We're livin' on the edge
We're livin' on the edge
There's somethin' wrong with the world today
The light bulb's gettin' dim
There's meltdown in the sky
If you can judge a wise man
By the color of his skin
Then mister you're a better man that I
We're livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
Tell me what you think about your sit-u-a-tion
Complication - aggravation
Is getting to you
If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
Even if it wasn't would you still come crawlin'
Back again?
I bet you would my friend
Again & again & again & again & again
(solo)
Tell me what you think about your sit-u-a-tion
Complication - aggravation
Is getting to you
If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
Even if it was would would you still come crawlin'
Back again?
I bet you would my friend
Again & again & again & again
There's something right with the world today
And everybody knows it's wrong
But we can tell 'em no or we could let it go
But I would rather be a hanging on
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself from fallin' (everybody)
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself at all (everybody)
Livin' On the Edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin' (everybody)
Livin' On the Edge
Livin' On the Edge
Livin' On the Edge
Livin' On the Edge
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself from fallin' (everybody)
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself at all (everybody)
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin' (everybody)
Livin' on the edge
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' On the Edge
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, you got to that now
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文句注釋
Livin’ on the edge
活在邊緣(意指生活不安定,隨時可能遭險或是沈淪)。
We’re seeing things in a different way/And God knows it ain’t His/ It sure ain’t no surprise
我們看待事物的方式已經與(基督教的)上帝不同,這是自然的。(這裡可能指的是世風日下,人心不古,社會已經變得不公不義,生活也是變得每日好像都處在瀕臨毀滅或沈淪的邊緣。)
If you can judge a wise man By the color of his skin
如果你能夠靠膚色來評量一個智者,那先生你是比我高明。(這裡Aerosmith在批判種族歧視。)
Tell me what you think about your situation Complication, aggravation is getting to you, yeah If Chicken Little tells you that the sky is fallin’ Even if it wasn’t, would you still come crawlin’ back again? I bet you would, my friend
告訴我你認為你的處境如何。併發症、病情惡化的問題都找上你了。如果膽小鬼(chiken little=little chicken)告訴你天塌下來了,即使天沒有塌下來,你是否還是會爬著回來?我猜你一定會。
I finally made it through med school Somehow I made it through I'm just an intern, I still make a mistake or two I was last my the class Barely passed at the institute Now I'm tryin' to avoid Yeah, I'm tryin' to avoid A malpractice suit
Hey, like a surgeon Cuttin' for the very first time Like a surgeon Organ transplants are my line Better give me all your gauze, nurse This patient's fading fast Complications have set in Don't know how long he'll last Let me see that I.V. Here we go, time to operate I'll pull his insides out Pull his insides out And see what he ate
Like a surgeon, hey! Cuttin' for the very first time Like a surgeon Here's a waiver for you to sign Wo-ho-wo-ho-wo-ho It's a fact I'm a quack The disgrace of the A.M.A. 'Cause my patients die Yeah, my patients die Before they can pay
Like a surgeon, hey! Cuttin' for the very first time Like a surgeon Got your kidneys on my mind Like a surgeon, (Ooh-hoo) like a surgeon When I reach inside With my scalpel And my forceps And retractors (Oh- ho-oh ho-ooh), baby Yeah, I can hear your heart beat For the very last time
西洋流行歌壇的搞笑嘲諷天王非這位老兄「怪人艾爾」楊科維契莫屬。歷年來被他「開刀」過的他歌曲與歌手無數,連「雅虎」(Yahoo!)網站的風格都被他拿來開玩笑變成他的「楊虎」(Yankovic!)網站。瑪丹娜在80年代一炮而紅的<宛若處女>("Like A Virgin")又豈能逃過這位「宛若外科醫生」的艾爾的手術/劫數。
Barely passed at the institute 勉強從醫學院畢業或是通過檢定考試為合格醫師。
A malpractice suit 誤診的醫療糾紛訴訟。
Organ transplants are my line 器官移植是我的專長。
Complications have set in 併發症都出現了。
I.V. 靜脈注射(intravenous)。
Got your kidneys on my mind 我心裡在想著你的腎(可以偷切下來賣到黑市)。
It’s a fact I’m a quack The disgrace of the A.M.A. ‘Cause my patients die Yeah, my patients die Before they can pay. 大家都知道我是庸醫,是美國醫學學會的恥辱(A.M.A.應該是American Medical Association)(因為他的病人在可以付錢之前就死了)。
With my scalpel And my forceps And retractors scalpel手術刀、forceps鉗子、retractors牽引器(例如拉開肌肉之用)。