赖世雄教你学唱歌: Unit 14 I'll never fall in love again

I'll never fall in love again
BY BOBBIE GENTRY¹
What do you get
When you fall in love
A girl with a pin
To burst your bubble
That's what you get
For all your trouble
I'll never fall in love again


What do you get
When you kiss a guy
You get enough germs
To catch peneumonia
After you do he'll never phone ya
I'll never fall in love again

Don't tell me what it's all about
I've been there
And I'm glad I'm out
Out of those chains
Those chains that bind² you
That is why I'm here
To remind you

What do you get
When you fall in love
You only get lies and pain and sorrow
So far at least until tomorrow
I'll never fall in love again

1、Bobbie Gentry remains³ one of the most interesting and underappreciated artists to emerge out of Nashville during the late '60s. Best-known for her crossover smash "Ode to Billie Joe," she was one of the first female country artists to write and produce much of her own material, forging an idiosyncratic, pop-inspired sound that, in tandem⁴ with her glamorous⁵, bombshell image, anticipated the rise of latter-day superstars like Shania Twain and Faith Hill. Of Portuguese⁶ descent, Gentry was born Roberta Streeter in Chickasaw County, MS, on July 27, 1944; her parents divorced shortly after her birth and she was raised in poverty on her grandparents' farm. After her grandmother traded one of the family's milk cows for a neighbor's piano, seven-year-old Bobbie composed her first song, "My Dog Sergeant⁷ Is a Good Dog," years later self-deprecatingly reprised in her nightclub act; at 13, she moved to Arcadia, CA, to live with her mother, soon beginning her performing career in local country clubs. The 1952 film Ruby⁸ Gentry lent the singer her stage surname.

2、A girl with a pinTo burst your bubble
=A GUY WILL COME ALONG AND RAIN ON YOUR PARADE。
一个小伙子回闯入你的心扉，然后扫你的兴，破坏你的美梦。
RAIN ON PARADE：请想象一下在游行时突然下起雨来，是多么的扫兴呀。

3、That's what you get For all your trouble
=THAT’S THE KIND OF THING YOU GET FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS。
这一句话有抱怨男方“狼心狗肺”、不珍惜她的TROUBLE（不厌其烦的努力，相当于EFFORTS）
4、GERM 病菌 PNEUMNONIA 肺炎 AFFECTION 爱情，恋慕，情感

1 gentry   

n.绅士阶级，上层阶级

参考例句：

• Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.来自土地的收入是衡量是否士绅阶层的真正标准。
• Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.宁做自由民之首，不居贵族之末。

2 bind   

vt.捆，包扎；装订；约束；使凝固；vi.变硬

参考例句：

• I will let the waiter bind up the parcel for you.我让服务生帮你把包裹包起来。
• He wants a shirt that does not bind him.他要一件不使他觉得过紧的衬衫。

3 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

4 tandem   

n.同时发生；配合；adv.一个跟着一个地；纵排地；adj.（两匹马）前后纵列的

参考例句：

• Malcolm's contract will run in tandem with his existing one.马尔科姆的合同将与他手头的合同同时生效。
• He is working in tandem with officials of the Serious Fraud Office.他正配合欺诈重案办公室的官员工作。

5 glamorous   

adj.富有魅力的；美丽动人的；令人向往的

参考例句：

• The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊，但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
• It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差，并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。

6 Portuguese   

n.葡萄牙人；葡萄牙语

参考例句：

• They styled their house in the Portuguese manner.他们仿照葡萄牙的风格设计自己的房子。
• Her family is Portuguese in origin.她的家族是葡萄牙血统。

7 sergeant   

n.警官，中士

参考例句：

• His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
• How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？

8 ruby   

n.红宝石，红宝石色

参考例句：

• She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
• On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。