讀者佳作：What if she's an angel
[ 2006-06-21 08:30 ]
本期撰稿人：閆華
北京理工大學(xué)物理系研究生。自幼喜歡音樂，但由于英語不好，一直對英文歌曲心存畏忌。自從發(fā)現(xiàn)了“流行金曲”這個欄目后，它豐富的內(nèi)容，深邃的思想使我對英文歌曲產(chǎn)生了濃厚了興趣。在欣賞各種英文歌曲的同時，我積累了一點兒想法和見解，很想把它們表達出來并和大家一起分享，多謝LT提供了這次機會，還望大家多提寶貴意見。）
 英語論壇 Easy
English：“流行金曲”大家評（三）
中文歌詞：倘若她是天使
我聽之我見：初見歌名，以為這是一首情歌，但細細一聽，其實不然。富有磁性的嗓音，娓娓訴說式的旋律，旨在傳達歌手真誠的勸說：請善待他人，即使面對陌生人，在他們有困難的時候，我們也應(yīng)該伸出援助之手。
 Lyrics
What if she's an
angel by
Tommy Shane Steiner
There's a man standing on the corner
With a
sign sayin "will work for food"
You know the man
You see him every
morning
 The one
you never give your money to
You can sit there with your
window rolled up
Wondering when
the lights going to turn green
Never knowing what a couple more bucks
In his pocket might mean
What if he's an angel sent here from Heaven
And he's
making certain that you're doing your best
To take the time to help one
another
Brother, are you going to pass that test
You can go on with your
day to day
Trying to forget what you saw in his face
Knowing deep down it could have been his saving
grace
What if he's an angel
There's a man
There's a woman
Living right above you
in apartment G
There's a lot of noise coming through the ceiling
And it
don't sound like harmony
You can sit there with your TV turned up
While
the words and his anger fly
Come
tomorrow when you see her with her shades on
Can you look her in the
eye
 What if she's an angel sent here from heaven
And she's making
certain that you're doing your best
To take the time to help one
another
Brother, are you going to pass that test
You can go on with your
day to day
Trying to forget what you saw in her face
Knowing deep down it
could have been her saving grace
What if she's an angel
A little girl on daddy's lap
Hiding her disease with a
baseball cap
You can turn the channel
Most people do
But what
if you were sitting in her daddy's
shoes
Maybe she's an angel
Sent here from
Heaven
And she's making certain you're doing your best
To take the time to
help one another
Brother，are you going to pass that test?
You can go on
with your day to day
Trying to forget what you saw in her face
Knowing
deep down it could have been her saving grace
What if she's an angel
Words and phrases
1. roll up:
把（畫、簾子）卷起來，由此，roll-up可做形容詞——“可卷起的”，例如：roll-up（可卷起的遮簾）。在歌中，依據(jù)語境，可理解為“‘你’坐在車里，搖上車窗，漠視窗外的一切”。
2.
buck: 俚語中常用來指代“美元”，例如：make a buck（掙錢）；a fast buck（輕易得來的錢，通常指不擇手段得來的）；in
the bucks（手頭有錢）
3. deep down:
內(nèi)心深處（這個詞其實被我們天天掛在口邊，例如：“你心里很清楚，很明白……”就可以表達為“You know deep down that……”
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