听歌学英语:Daily Growing(爱尔兰乐队ALTAN)

The trees they grow high, 树儿高高生长，
The leaves they do grow green,叶儿嫩绿嫩绿
Many is the time my true love I’ve seen, 很早我就见到了我的爱人
Many an hour I have watched him all alone, 很多时候悄悄凝望他
He’s young but he’s daily growing. 他很年轻却一天天的成长

Father, dear father, you’ve done me great wrong,亲爱的父亲，你做了件大错事
You have married me to a boy who is too young, 你让我嫁给太年轻的男孩
I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen, 我都24了他却14
He’s young but he’s daily growing. 他很年轻却一天天的成长

Daughter, dear daughter, I’ve done you no wrong,亲爱的女儿，我并没做错什么
I have married you to a great lord’s son, 我让你嫁给了一个不错的小伙
He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone, 当我老去他将成为你的唯一
He’s young but he’s daily growing他很年轻却一天天的成长

Father, dear father, if you see fit,亲爱的父亲，如果你觉得适合
We’ll send him to college for another year yet, 我们来年就送他去学校
I’ll tie a blue ribbon all around his head,他头上绑条蓝丝带
To let the maidens¹ know that he is married.其他的女子知道他已结婚
One day I was looking over my father’s castle wall, 有天，我在父亲的城墙观望
I spied all the boys playing with a ball, 我看到很多男孩在玩球
And my own true love was the flower of them all, 我的至爱是最显眼的一个
He’s young but he’s daily growing. 他很年轻却一天天的成长

And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day, 黎明初晨
They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play, 他们在草地上运动玩耍
And what they did there she never would declare, 她无法知道他们在做什么
But she never more complained of his growing.不再抱怨他的成长

At the age of fourteen he was a married man, 他14岁时就是个已婚男子了
At the age of fifteen the father of my son, 15岁他就成了我孩子的爸
At the age of sixteen his grave it was green, 16岁时他年轻的离去了
And death had put an end to his growing. 死亡把他的成长定格成终点

I’ll buy my love some flannel²,我要为我的爱人买些布，
I’ll make my love a shroud³,我要为我的爱人做件衣裳，
With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down,一针一线泪滴汇制
With every stitch I put in it, how the tears they will flow,一针一线泪从何处流
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing. 残酷的命运把他的一生划了个终点

1 maidens   

处女( maiden的名词复数 )； 少女； 未婚女子； （板球运动）未得分的一轮投球

参考例句：

• stories of knights and fair maidens 关于骑士和美女的故事
• Transplantation is not always successful in the matter of flowers or maidens. 花儿移栽往往并不成功，少女们换了环境也是如此。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

2 flannel   

n.法兰绒；法兰绒衣服

参考例句：

• She always wears a grey flannel trousers.她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。
• She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt.她穿着法兰绒裙子，看上去楚楚动人。

3 shroud   

n.裹尸布，寿衣；罩，幕；vt.覆盖，隐藏

参考例句：

• His past was enveloped in a shroud of mystery.他的过去被裹上一层神秘色彩。
• How can I do under shroud of a dark sky?在黑暗的天空的笼罩下，我该怎么做呢？