听歌学英语:九百万辆自行车Nine Million Bicycles

听歌学英语:九百万辆自行车Nine Million Bicycles

用音乐分享心情，在好心情中感悟生活。各位好，我是Canace。某一个秋日，阳光正好，外事旅游的大巴上，有着热情美丽的北京导游小姐，拿着小喇叭和导游旗介绍北京的好精致，故宫天坛长城，这些大家都不陌生。导游小姐看似淡然地顺便提了一句“there are nine million bicycles in Beijing”，北京有九百万辆自行车。九百万，想来这个数字对于某些外国友人来说是相当震撼的，举座皆是啧啧称奇，座上便有一位可爱的秃顶老头拿出小本认真记下了。十月，Mike Batt 为歌手凯蒂·玛露写下这首叫做“Nine Million Bicycles”的单曲，随后这首歌横扫欧洲各国排行榜，所在专辑“Piece By Piece”也荣登英国专辑排行冠军。

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing.
That's a fact. It's a thing we can't deny¹
Like the fact that I will love you till I die
We are twelve billion light years from the edge²
That's a guess. No one can ever say it's true
But I know that I will always be with you
I'm warmed by the fire of your love everyday
So don't call me a liar³. Just believe everything that I say
There are six billion people in the world, more or less
And it makes me feel quite small. But you're the one I love the most of all
We're high on the wire with the world in our sight
And I'll never tire of the love that you give me every night
There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact. It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die
And there are nine million bicycles in Beijing
And you know that I will love you till I die


歌词解析：

感人至深的英文经典表白：
1. There are six billion people in the world, more or less. And it makes me feel quite small, but you're the one I love the most of all.
    在这世上差不多有60亿人，这让我感觉挺渺小，但你是我最爱的人。

2. Six billion people in the world, six billion souls. And somtimes, all you need is one.
    世界上有60亿人，60亿独立的灵魂；但我们只为一人倾心。

3. There may be plenty of fish in the sea. But there is only one fish for me.
    海里或许有无数的鱼儿，却只有一条是属于我的。

4. To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world.
    对于世界，你可能只是一个人，但对于某个人，你却是整个世界。

5. In spite⁴ of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you.
    就算是你、我和整个世界都崩溃了，哪怕是世界末日，我都会爱着你。

6. I love you not for whom you are, but who I am when Im by your side.
   我爱你并不是因为你是谁，而是因为我在你身边的时候我是谁。

7. There is nothing I couldn't give you, there is nothing I would deny you, if you would not deny me. Open you're heart to me.
    如果你不违背我，你要什么我就能给你什么，你要什么都可以，把你的心交给我吧。

1 deny   

vt.否定，否认；拒绝相信，拒绝接受，拒绝给予；vi.否定，拒绝

参考例句：

• Don't imagine you can deny that.你休想低赖。
• He didn't deny the facts.他没有否认这些事实。

2 edge   

n.边(缘)；刃；优势；v.侧着移动，徐徐移动

参考例句：

• Sight along the edge to see if it's straight.顺着边目测，看看直不直。
• She lived on the extreme edge of the forest.她住在森林的最边缘。

3 liar   

n.说谎的人

参考例句：

• I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了，一个又偷又骗的家伙！
• She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。

4 spite   

n.（用于短语）虽然，不顾，尽管

参考例句：

• He has modern ideas in spite of his great age.尽管他年事很高，但思想观念却很入时。
• In spite of his anger,his remarks were restrained.他尽管生气，说的话还是有节制的。