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A: I'll leave all the plants in the house for you to
keep.
我把所有的植物留在家里给你照顾。
B: Thanks. I'll take good care of them.
谢谢。我会好好照顾它们。 |
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You should put that project on the back burner.
你应该把那个项目先放一放。 j2f中国英语学习网
我们经常说做事要看轻重缓急，有的时候不得不把正在做的事或计划要做的事先搁置一边。美国人把这叫做：to put on the back
burner。Back就是后边，而burner在这儿的是指做饭的炉子。美国的厨房里，炉台上一般都有四个炉口，前面两个，后面两个。人们往往把能很快煮好的东西放在前面炉子上煮，把一些要慢慢煮的东西放在后面的炉子上。这就是to
put on the back burner这个俗语的来源。下面这个例子是一个广告公司的老板在给会计下指示：Joe, I know you're working
on the Anderson contract, but let's put it on the back burner for now. We need
your help on the new Jones contract--it's worth more than five million
dollars.乔伊，我知道你现在正在处理安德森合同的事情，但是，让我们先把它放一放。我们要你来帮忙处理和琼斯签订的新合同。这个合同价值达五百万美元。
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Is it a good way?
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"Tom, I hear you've been fighting with one of those boys next door and have given him a black eye.
"Yeah. You see, they are twins and I want some way to tell them apart."
中文：
是好办法吗？ j2f中国英语学习网
“汤姆，听说你一直在和隔壁家的一个小男孩打架，还把他眼睛打黑了。”
“对呀， 他们是双胞胎，我想找个办法把他们分开。” j2f中国英语学习网 |
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"Decked like dowagers at a garden party, Châteux-d'Oex milkers return in fall from mountain pastures. The annual descent, known as désalpe in the French-speaking canton of Vaud, becomes Alpabfahrt in German-speaking Bern."
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The Secret of the Fiddle (a Swedish Gypsy tale)[小提琴的秘密（瑞典吉普赛人的故事）]
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Once upon a time a boy met a strange man with horns and feet that looked like goat hooves. The boy knew he was the devil, but since he seemed friendly the boy talked to him.
"I know who you love," the devil said.
"How do you know that?" the boy asked.
"I know everything. And I can make her love you."
"Really!" the boy exclaimed. What if this were true? He would do anything to make her love him.
"Yes, but on one condition," the devil said. "You must give me your family. If you do, I promise the girl will fall in love with you!"
Nobody knows if the boy believed the devil, but everybody knows his answer.
So the devil changed the boy's father into a fiddle, his mother into a bow, his sisters into bowstrings, and his brothers into fiddle strings.
The boy picked up the fiddle and played. Soon the forest was full of the most beautiful music anyone had ever heard. The birds stopped flying and hovered to listen. The wind stopped blowing so that it could hear. The trees began to sway to the sound. The forest animals gathered around and started to dance.
When the girl heard the amazing music, she fell in love with the boy. They got married. Whenever anyone felt bad, the young man played his fiddle, and the music made everyone feel better.
One day, as the young man and woman were walking in the forest, he grew tired of carrying his fiddle. "I'll just leave it here, under this tree," he said, and put it down. He and his wife continued on their walk.
Later, they returned, but to their astonishment the fiddle was gone. Suddenly, a big black carriage pulled by four black horses swept into the forest. A hand reached out, grabbed the couple and carried them away. No one ever saw them again.
A few years later, as a Gypsy boy was passing by that tree, he tripped over something under the leaves. He dug through the leaves and dirt until he found the fiddle. He ran back to his camp and played for his people. No one had ever heard such a beautiful sound. They made more fiddles, and others learned to play.
Even today when the Gypsies play, the whole world stops to listen, and everyone's soul dances and sings. |
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涅磐“朋克”: Dumb
绝望的眼神，旁人的冷漠，直上云霄的快慰，坠入深渊的恐惧……这就是《Dumb》，我最初认识的《Dumb》。
第一次接触“涅磐”的音乐是一个偶然的机会，我看到了《Dumb》的flash制作，而这首歌却越听越深入我心，即使时隔五年我的心里也时常回响着这首歌。在这首歌中，绝望，失落，孤独，无助，疑惑，堕落的心境表露无疑。歌中描述的是一种在与人交往的社会环境中，无法融入其中的一种压抑和排斥，揭示了人们心中最深度的恐惧和脆弱。我想这也许就是朋克音乐之所以风靡全球的原因吧。
朋克音乐，实际上是矛盾的集中体现。他用简单的文字表达最为复杂的心情，朋克族生活糜烂，却期待着美好，被他人所排斥，却期待能够建立和谐的关系，强烈的反叛精神，却使他们站立在两难的心理境地，或者呐喊，或者彷徨…… j2f中国英语学习网
Dumb by Nirvana
I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
 But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having funj2f中国英语学习网
I think I'm dumb
Or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy...
My heart is broke
But I have some glue
Help me inhale
And mend it with you
We'll float around
And hang out on clouds
Then we'll come down
And I have a hangover...
Skin the sun
Fall asleep
Wish away
 The soul is cheap
Lesson learned
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up
I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
Or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy...
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb...
Words and phrases
1. inhale：呼吸，深呼吸
2. float around：四处飘荡，“around”在这里指“到处”，如：to leave the toys around the room（把玩具丢得满屋都是）；dirty clothes lying around（脏衣服丢得到处都是）
3. hangover ：宿醉；遗留的感觉
4. learn a lesson：吸取教训
歌手简介 j2f中国英语学习网
90年代，美国的失业危机重新抬头，朋克乐在音乐界再度爆炸，西雅图的Grunge音乐风暴引起了强烈的反响与轰动，“Nirvana”（涅磐）就是在这样的背景下诞生的。乐队由 Kurt Cobain和前“The Melvins”的成员 Krist Novoselic 组建，Dave Grohl在录制第二张唱片“Nevermind”时固定了的鼓手位置，Kurt Cobain负责主音和吉它，Chris 负责低音吉它。
1988年11月Nirvana推出了第一首单曲：Love Buzz/Big Cheese，紧接着次年六月，Nirvana推出了他们的第一张专辑。三年之后，Nirvana正式和Geffen Records 唱片公司签约并随后推出专辑“Nevermind”，这张专辑刚推出5周销量就已达到50 万张，并且在排行榜上势如破竹，节节上升。92年1月11日“Nevermind”成为美国销量第一的唱片，全球的销量超过一千万大关，专辑中的单曲“Smells Like Teen Spirit”在美国BILLBROAD公告排行榜上也迅速攀升。
1992年12月15 日，Nirvana推出地下音乐专辑“Incesticide”，以此试探听众和电台DJ接受地下摇滚的极限。1993年9月，他们请来了著名的反商业的制作人Steve Albini作监制，发行了“In Utero”，这是摇滚史上最佳朋克专集之一，乐队配合的天衣无缝，把Kurt Cobain 内心的狂燥、愤怒、压抑 、扭曲、病态、激烈的矛盾冲突完全显示了出来，同时也也反映了KURT温柔、感性的一面。此时，Nirvana已经达到了他们的极致并掀起一场空前绝后的Grunge风暴，1993年11月18日，Nirvana应邀为MTV 制作的Unplugged演出了一场经典的演唱会。
1994年4月8日，一个电工在 Kurt的住所发现了他的尸体，尸体身边带有一封遗书。西雅图警方证明Kurt Cobain于三天前自杀身亡。于是3月1日，Nirvana在德国慕尼黑的演出成为乐队最后的一次公开表演。
Nirvana留下的只是他们音乐里有的那种躁动不安和最深的孤寂。
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