听歌学英语:像鸟一样自由飞翔 Freebird
Lynyrd Skynyrd，1970年代风靡一时的美国南方摇滚乐队，风格和Eagles比较接近，1963年成立于佛罗里达州，1973年走红。最出名的特点是他们的吉他合奏。可惜乐队的灵魂人物Ronnie Van Zant在1977年因空难去世，1984年重组其弟John成为乐队新主唱。2006年3月23日Lynyrd Skynyrd乐队进入摇滚名人堂。Lynyrd Skynyrd乐队于1977年10月20日在飞往Louisiana演唱会途中，因为飞机机件故障导致坠机事件。使乐队损失了三名成员，就在坠机前三天，Lynyrd Skynyrd才刚刚发行新专辑「街头生还者（Street Survivors）」，封面是团员一字排开站在街头，被熊熊烈火吞噬。坠机事件之后，唱片公司紧急把封面照片换成团员站在全黑背景前的版本，直到2001年重新发行CD版，才把最早那帧不祥的照片摆回去。
英文歌词：
If I leave here tomorrow
would you still remember me
For I must be travelling on now
there's too many places I gotta see
And if I stay here with you girl
things just wouldn't be the same
For I'm as free as a bird now
and this bird you cannot change
and the bird you cannot change
and this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can't change
Bye bye baby it's been sweet love
though this feeling I can't change
Please don't take it so badly
Coz the Lord knows I must play
If I stay here with you girl
things just couldn't be the same
Coz I'm as free as a bird now
and this bird you cannot change
and the bird you cannot change
and this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can't change
Lord help me I can't change
Lord I can't change
Won't you fly, Freebird, yeah
Notes：
1.For I must be travelling on now
On有“继续从事某事”的意思。但是词组travel on还有“骑马（或徒步）旅行”的意思。
1.Not many of the children travel on horseback to school even in these country areas.
即便在这些农村地区也没有多少孩子骑马上学。
2.Traveling on foot takes such a long time comparing with modern ways of getting about.
与现代化旅行方式相比,徒步旅行花的时间太多了。
2.For I'm as free as a bird now
明喻是英语中运用最为广泛的一种修辞手段,尤其适用于描写和说明。明喻格在长期的使用中许多已成了习语,汉语如此,英语亦然。此类习语犹以“as+形容词+as+名词”的结构最为典型,而“as+形容词+as+动物词”又成了这典型结构中的一朵绚丽灿烂的花。许多英语动物名词常常有引申意义,词义引申通常是建立在相似联想的思维基础之上,又比如1.as bald as a coot（像白骨顶一样秃头）
3.If I stay here with you girl
在这里stay和with是分开的，但是stay with其实可以单独作为一个短语。意思为在…家里作客，继续为…工作。
1.I hope you'll stay with me on your next visit too.
希望你下次来时还在我家住。
2. How long do you intend to stay with the firm?
你准备在公司干多久？
3. Charles cried for his mother to stay with him.
查尔斯哭着要妈妈和自己待在一起。 |