听歌学英语:心的撕扯 Tear In My Heart

Sometimes you gotta bleed to know
有时总是要留点血才能知道
That you're alive and have a soul
你还活着 你的灵魂还在
But it takes someone to come around
但必须有个人在你的生命力出现
To show you how
告诉你如何发现
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
I'm alive
让我觉得我还活着
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
I'm on fire
我激情似火
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
Take me higher
带我飞往更高
Than I've ever been
曾未有过的高
The songs on the radio are okay
收音机上的歌很不错
But my taste in music is your face
我对音乐的品味正如你精致的容颜
And it takes a song to come around
需要一首歌的时间
To show you how
告诉你如何发现
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
I'm alive
我热力四射
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
I'm on fire
我激情似火
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
Take me higher
带我飞往更高
Than I've ever been
曾未有过的高
Than I've ever been
曾未有过的高
Than I've ever been
曾未有过的高
Than I've ever been
曾未有过的高
You fell asleep in my car I drove the whole time
我一路向前 而你在我车里安睡
But that's okay I'll just avoid the holes so you sleep fine
但没关系我会避开地上的坑洞 让你可以安然入睡
I'm driving here I sit
坐在驾驶座我驱车向前
Cursing¹ my government
嘴里不停的咒骂政府
For not using my taxes to fill holes with more cement²
为何不拿我上交的税款来填平这些坑洞
You fell asleep in my car I drove the whole time
我一路向前 而你在我车里安睡
But that's okay I'll just avoid the holes so you sleep fine
但没关系我会避开地上的坑洞 让你可以安然入睡
I'm driving here I sit
坐在驾驶座我驱车向前
Cursing my government
嘴里不停的咒骂政府
For not using my taxes to fill holes with more cement
为何不拿我上交的税款来填平这些坑洞
Sometimes you gotta bleed to know, oh, oh
有时总是要遍体鳞伤才知道
That you're alive and have a soul, oh, oh
你还活着 你的灵魂还在
But it takes someone to come around
但必须有个人在你的生命力出现
To show you how
告诉你如何发现
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
I'm alive
我热力四射
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
I'm on fire
我激情似火
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
Take me higher
带我飞往更高
Than I've ever been
曾未有过的高
My heart is my armor
我的心是我防护铠甲
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
She's a carver
她是个吞噬者
She's a butcher with a smile
她是个笑意盈盈的刽子手
Cut me farther³
将我碎成片
Than I've ever been
未曾有过的痛
Than I've ever been
未曾有过的痛
Than I've ever been
未曾有过的痛
Than I've ever been
未曾有过的痛
My heart is my armor
我的心是我防护铠甲
She's the tear in my heart
她是我心上的一道口子
She's a carver
她是个吞噬者
She's a butcher with a smile
她是个笑意盈盈的刽子手
Cut me farther
将我隔成碎片
Than I've ever been
未曾有过的痛

Tear In My Heart
tear: n 眼泪
The children were all in tears.孩子们全都哭了。
She came home in floods of tears.她泪流满面地回到家里。
He was fighting back tears as he spoke⁴. 他一边说一边拼命忍住泪水。
n（撕破的）洞或裂缝, 撕扯
I peered⁵ through a tear in the van's curtains.我透过货车窗帘上的一个破洞偷偷往外面看了看。
You had better use a bit of the left-over cloth to mend the tear in your trousers.你最好用剩下的布来补你裤子上的破洞。
There was a huge tear in his shirt.他的衬衣上有一个大口子。

wear and tear:磨损
Apart from fair wear and tear , the car is in excellent condition.这辆车除了正常磨损外，一切完好。
However, due to wear and tear, the wall structure appears to have loosened⁶.由于原有的砌石墙已经老化，出现了松垮现象。
Don't worry about it. A little wear and tear is to be expected.别担心，一点点的磨损是免不了的。

tear v 撕破；撕扯；划破
Be careful not to tear the paper.小心不要把纸撕破了。
His clothes were old and torn.他的衣服又旧又破。
She's torn her jackets on a nail. 她的夹克衫被钉子钩破了。
She tore her skirt on the nail.钉子勾破了她的裙子。
Don't pull the pages so hard or they will tear.别那麽使劲扯书页，会撕破的。
Do tear yourself away from the television and come out for a walk.你别舍不得离开电视了，出去散散步吧。

be torn between sth:左右为难；难以取舍
She was torn between her love of dancing and her fear of performing in public.她的内心充满矛盾，既热爱舞蹈又害怕公开表演。

to tear sb to shreds⁷/pieces严厉批评某人某物
He tore her arguments to shreds.他把她的观点驳得一无是处。

to tear your hair out:极其烦恼
I've been tearing my hair out trying to get done in time.为了能及时完成这件事儿我都快疯掉了。

to tear sb's heart out/ to tear at sb's heart:使某人心碎；使某人极其难受
The thought of her out there alone tore at my heart.想到她独自一人在那里，我的心都要碎掉了。

1 cursing   

n.诅咒；咒骂

参考例句：

• "I'm cursing the swine,'said Ah Fu. 阿福道：“我骂猪猡。”
• "The swine is cursing me,'said Li. 李先生道：“猪猡骂我。”

2 cement   

n.水泥；胶结材料；vt.粘结；巩固

参考例句：

• We need 100 tons of cement at most for this project.这项工程满打满算有一百吨水泥就足够了。
• Let's cement the parts together.咱们来把这些部件粘接在一起吧。

3 farther   

adj.更远的，进一步的；adv.更远的，此外；far的比较级

参考例句：

• I can throw the ball farther than you can.这个球我能比你扔得远。
• The farther hill is five kilometres away.那座更远的小山在五公里以外。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 peered   

去皮的

参考例句：

• He peeled away the plastic wrapping. 他去掉塑料包装。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The paint on the wall has peeled off. 墙上涂料已剥落了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 loosened   

v.解开( loosen的过去式和过去分词 )；放松；松弛；（使）放松

参考例句：

• He has loosened the soil up with a fork. 他用耙松过土了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The new policies loosened up foreign trade. 新政策使对外贸易有了更大的灵活性。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 shreds   

v.撕碎，切碎( shred的第三人称单数 )；用撕毁机撕毁（文件）

参考例句：

• Peel the carrots and cut them into shreds. 将胡罗卜削皮，切成丝。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I want to take this diary and rip it into shreds. 我真想一赌气扯了这日记。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说