听歌学英语:生活真美好 Life is Wonderful

生活真美好 Life is Wonderful

       这首歌起调有些慵懒，但是逐渐地我就被它的歌词吸引了……歌词讲述的是生活中平凡的真理，启发人们用一种平和的心态去看待这个世界，面对生活中的一切。有部分歌词很有意思，虽然看似矛盾，但是却隐藏着辩证的思维方法和人生哲学，比如It takes some old to make you young和It takes the dust to have it polished。到后来音乐节奏渐强，让人不由得一起哼唱起来：Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful……别具意味的歌词加上安静的音乐，还有歌手那纯净的声音，完美的声线，让这首歌百听不厌。

英文歌词：

It takes a crane to build a crane

It takes two floors to make a story

It takes an egg to make a hen

It takes a hen to make an egg

There is no end to what I'm saying

It takes a thought to make a word

And it takes some words to make an action

And it takes some work to make it work

It takes some good to make it hurt

It takes some bad for satisfaction

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la

It takes a night to make it dawn

And it takes a day to make you yawn brother

It takes some old to make you young

It takes some cold to know the sun

It takes the one to have the other

And it takes no time to fall in love

But it takes you years to know what love is

And it takes some fears to make you trust

It takes those tears to make it rust¹

It takes the dust to have it polished

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la it is so...

It takes some silence to make sound

And it takes a loss before you found it

And it takes a road to go nowhere

It takes a toll² to make you care

It takes a hole to make a mountain

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life is meaningful

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la it is so... wonderful

It is so meaningful

It is so wonderful

It is meaningful

It is wonderful

It is meaningful

It goes full circle

1 rust   

n.锈；v.生锈；(脑子)衰退

参考例句：

• She scraped the rust off the kitchen knife.她擦掉了菜刀上的锈。
• The rain will rust the iron roof.雨水会使铁皮屋顶生锈。

2 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。