【英音模仿秀】Hail Beatles

 模仿文本：The Beatles were not provocateurs, though often mystics, and their great subject was childhood gone by, and what to make of the austere¹, rationed², but in many ways ordered and secure English world that they had grown up in, and that was now passing before their eyes, in part because of the doors that they had opened.

 

译文：披头士乐队不是煽动者，尽管他们经常表现得很神秘。逝去的童年是他们歌颂的重要主题。他们的歌曲展现的是他们那个简朴、不甚富裕，但同时有序安全的成长环境以及他们所开启的全新时代中发生的一切。

 

1 austere   

adj.艰苦的；朴素的，朴实无华的；严峻的

参考例句：

• His way of life is rather austere.他的生活方式相当简朴。
• The room was furnished in austere style.这间屋子的陈设都很简单朴素。

2 rationed   

限量供应，配给供应( ration的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• We were rationed to two eggs a day. 每天配给我们两个鸡蛋。
• The army is well rationed. 部队给养良好。