听歌学英语：èkó-Coldplay

 Joseph rode in on a beam of light

 

约瑟夫乘着一束光而来

 

Stray dogs to welcome him

 

流浪狗前来迎接他

 

Fights, corrugate¹ cathedrals

 

斗争在古老的教堂中上演

 

The sight of the pilgrims going nowhere

 

朝圣者们开着车

 

In millions of cars

 

无处可去的景象

 

Lagos a dream in the distance

 

拉格斯城，一个遥远的梦

 

For promises he’d made behind

 

在他年幼时的预言中

 

Where there was no harvest

 

那是个被饥饿笼罩的地方

 

But he missed the sky and its circus

 

可他怀念那里的天空和旧时的遐想

 

And countless² the stars

 

还有那数不尽的星辰

 

In Africa

 

在非洲大陆

 

The rivers are perfectly³ deep

 

河流深嵌于大地

 

And beautifully wide

 

水面波澜壮阔

 

In Africa

 

在非洲大陆

 

The Mothers will sing you to sleep

 

母亲会唱歌伴你入眠

 

And say

 

告诉你

 

‘It’s alright, child, it’s alright’

 

一切安好，孩子，一切安好

 

In Africa

 

在非洲大陆

 

We dance in the water

 

我们在水中起舞

 

And hold each other so tight

 

紧握着彼此的双手

 

In Africa

 

在非洲大陆

 

The Mothers will sing you to sleep

 

母亲会唱歌伴你入眠

 

And say

 

告诉你

 

‘It’s alright, child, it’s alright’

 

一切安好，孩子，一切安好

 

Joseph rode in on a beam of light

 

约瑟夫乘着一束光而来

 

Dreamed of his Queen by his side

 

梦想着挚爱伴他身旁

 

There’ll be a beautiful sunset

 

这里能看见很美的日落

 

And you’ll be a beautiful bride

 

你会是最美的新娘

 

     

 

The sight of the pilgrims going nowhere

 

朝圣者们开着车

 

Pilgrim n.香客，朝圣者； 旅行者； 追寻者；

 

例句：

 

They read stories about the Indians and the Pilgrim.

 

他们阅读有关印第安人和那些朝圣者的故事。

 

He went to Mecca as a pilgrim.

 

他去麦加朝圣.

 

Our pilgrim remained stupefied with undefined apprehensions⁴.

 

我们的旅客给莫名的恐惧吓呆了.

 

 

Joseph rode in on a beam of light

 

约瑟夫乘着一束光而来

 

A beam of一束

 

例句：

 

A burst of sunshine sent a beam of amber⁵ light through the window.

 

破云而出的阳光透过窗户送来一束琥珀色的光线。

 

The electron microscope uses a beam of electrons to produce images at high magnifications.

 

电子显微镜利用电子束形成高倍影像。

 

A beam of high radiant power will have high divergence⁶.

 

高辐射功率的光束会有高的发散度.

 

1 corrugate   

v.起波浪形，起皱纹；n.皱；车辙；畦；沟

参考例句：

• He corrugated his brows in thought.他在沉思中皱起眉头。
• His brow corrugated with the effort of thinking.他皱着眉头用心地思考。

2 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

3 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

4 apprehensions   

疑惧

参考例句：

• He stood in a mixture of desire and apprehensions. 他怀着渴望和恐惧交加的心情伫立着。
• But subsequent cases have removed many of these apprehensions. 然而，随后的案例又消除了许多类似的忧虑。

5 amber   

n.琥珀；琥珀色；adj.琥珀制的

参考例句：

• Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗？
• This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。

6 divergence   

n.分歧，岔开

参考例句：

• There is no sure cure for this transatlantic divergence.没有什么灵丹妙药可以消除大西洋两岸的分歧。
• In short,it was an age full of conflicts and divergence of values.总之，这一时期是矛盾与价值观分歧的时期。