听歌学英语:How far-Martina McBride

听歌学英语:How far-Martina McBride



今天我们来学习一首来自Martina McBride的“How far” (多远)。
Martina McBride是美国乡村音乐界不多见的能够在音乐和商业两方面持续保持上升势头的歌手。第39届美国乡村音乐奖，Martina McBride获最佳女歌手和人道主义两项大奖。



[00:05.92]Listen and Share
[00:10.09]知行音乐厅
[00:13.29]Martina McBride
[00:14.88]How far
[00:17.01]Martina McBride
[00:40.82]There's a boat I could sail away
[00:47.56]There's the sky I could catch a plane
[00:54.36]There's a train there's the tracks¹
[00:58.32]I could leave and I could choose to not come back
[01:04.59]Oh never come back
[01:08.04]There you are giving up the fight
[01:14.86]Here I am begging you to try
[01:21.74]Talk to me let me in
[01:25.95]But you just put your wall back up again
[01:32.62]Oh when's it gonna end
[01:35.57]How far do I have to go to make you understand
[01:44.13]I wanna make this work so much it hurts
[01:48.05]But I just can't keep on giving
[01:51.72]Go on living with the way things are
[01:56.36]So I'm gonna walk away
[02:00.13]And it's up to you to say how far
[02:10.11]There's a chance I could change my mind
[02:16.75]But I won't not till you decide
[02:23.52]What you want, what you need
[02:27.43]Do you even care if I stay or leave
[02:34.35]Oh what's it gonna be
[02:37.43]How far do I have to go to make you understand
[02:45.78]I wanna make this work so much it hurts
[02:49.83]But I just can't keep on giving
[02:53.35]Go on living with the way things are
[02:58.10]So I'm gonna walk away
[03:01.72]And it's up to you to say how far
[03:09.08]Out of this chair or just across the room
[03:15.81]Halfway² down the block or halfway to the moon
[03:23.79]歌词大意
[03:53.49]There's a boat I could sail away
[03:56.18]There's the sky I could catch a plane
[03:59.33]There's a train there's the tracks
[04:02.38]I could leave and I could choose to not come back
[04:05.80]Oh never come back
[04:19.59]catch a plane / train / bus
[04:25.13]catch + 交通工具
[04:26.87]赶，乘坐
[04:28.44]take
[04:30.85]I had to catch a plane up to Atlanta that next day.
[04:38.59]tracks
[04:48.69]The hunter followed the animal's tracks.
[04:54.11]in (one's) tracks
[04:58.19]come back  回来、想起来
[05:01.72]Stay here and wait for me till I come back.
[05:08.21]come back to life   恢复健康
[05:11.36]come back over here  回这里来
[05:15.40]get back 回来、回家
[05:33.36]There you are giving up the fight
[05:35.82]Here I am begging you to try
[05:43.12]give up
[05:47.92]give up doing sth.
[05:52.18]She gave up her job to look after her mother.
[05:59.14]give up smoking  放弃吸烟
[06:02.28]give up to  让给
[06:04.37]give in  屈服
[06:06.46]give out  耗尽
[06:09.60]beg   请求, 乞求
[06:12.20]beggar  乞丐，乞求
[06:18.54]The old man begged from door to door.
[06:39.07]Talk to me let me in
[06:41.24]But you just put your wall back up again
[06:43.85]when's it gonna end
[06:52.77]let sb. in  让某人进入
[06:56.97]She let me in her life.
[07:02.43]let sb out   让某人出去
[07:05.16]let sb. in for  使某人遭到......
[07:09.56]put back
[07:14.24]All the clocks and watches
[07:15.79]were put back an hour on Saturday night.
[07:44.78]How far do I have to go to make you understand
[07:48.00]I wanna make this work so much it hurts
[07:51.06]But I just can't keep on giving
[07:53.10]Go on living with the way things are
[08:06.45]make sb. do  使某人......
[08:13.12]The teacher has made us have interest in English.
[08:19.71]hurt
[08:23.02]She's hurt because you haven't visited her.
[08:42.12]So I'm gonna walk away
[08:43.75]And it's up to you to say how far
[08:50.51]up to you  由你决定
[09:24.71]There's a chance I could change my mind
[09:27.73]But I won't not till you decide
[09:30.20]What you want, what you need
[09:32.42]Do you even care if I stay or leave
[09:35.64]what's it gonna be
[09:49.45]decide
[09:53.85]decision  决定、决心
[09:56.37]decider 决定者、裁决
[10:00.83]decide to do sth. 决定去做某事
[10:04.70]She decided³ to leave here on Sunday
[10:07.17]instead of Monday.
[10:12.41]gonna = going to  将要
[10:16.88]be going to do  意图、预见
[10:21.50]They are going to be good friends in the future.
[10:43.17]Out of this chair or just across the room
[10:46.36]Halfway down the block or halfway to the moon
[10:56.97]across
[11:01.34]He stared at the Englishman⁴ across the table.
[11:08.70]halfway
[11:12.74]halfway down the block
[11:18.58]halfway home
[11:21.35]go halfway  妥协
[11:24.64]Whatever you do, don't stop halfway.
[11:32.49]谢谢收听

1 tracks   

n.小路( track的名词复数 )；跑道；路径；轨道v.跟踪( track的第三人称单数 )；跟踪摄影；留下（脏）足迹；追随（潮流等）

参考例句：

• Tracks led up the mountainside. 小径沿着山坡向上延伸。
• All the tracks have been digitally remastered from the original tapes. 所有的曲子都已经从原始录音带转录到了数码母带上。

2 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

4 Englishman   

n.(pl.Englishmen)英国人；英国男人

参考例句：

• I was astonished that he was not an Englishman.我很惊讶,他竟不是英国人。
• She stared thoughtfully at the Englishman across the table.她若有所思地盯着桌子对面的那个英国人。