时间:2018-12-14 作者:英语课 分类:天籁音乐


英语课
1971年10月14日《纽约邮报》刊登了一个故事,故事的名字叫《回家》(Going Home):长途车上坐着一位沉默不语的男子,在同车的年轻游客的盘问下终于开了口。原来他刚从监狱出来,释放前曾写信给妻子:如果她已另有归宿,他也不责怪她;如果她还爱着他,愿意他回去,就在镇口的老橡树上系一根黄丝带;如果没有黄丝带,他就会随车而去,永远不会去打扰她……汽车快到目的地了,车上的人们都坐在靠窗户的位上往外看,只有这位男子不敢张望,他害怕迎面而来的可能是失望……突然间,全车的人都沸腾起来:远远望去,镇口的老橡树上挂了几十上百条黄丝带,这些黄丝带像欢迎的旗帜迎风飘扬……


    这个故事刊出不久,很快就出现了这首不朽的音乐作品。《大学英语精读》中也收录这篇文章,这个动人的故事被作成了歌曲,伴着歌声这个故事也传遍了全世界。黄丝带也成了美国“欢迎被囚禁的人重获自由”的标志。


   

    老橡树上的黄丝带(Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak 1 Tree)歌词

    I'm coming home I've done my time*(1)
    Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine
    If you received my letter telling you I'd soon be free
    Then you'll know just what to do if you still want me
    If you still want me

    Oh tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree
    It's been three long years do you still want me
    If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
    I'll stay on the bus forget about us put the blame on me*(2)
    If I don't see a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree

    Bus driver please look for me
    'Cause I couldn't bear to see what I might see
    I'm really still in prison and my love she holds the key
    A simple yellow ribbon's what I need to set me free
    I wrote and tell her please

    Oh tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree
    It's been three long years do you still want me
    If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
    I'll stay on the bus forget about us put the blame on me
    If I don't see a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree

    Now the whole damn 2 bus is cheering
    And I can't believe I see
    A hundred yellow ribbons round the ole oak tree
    I'm coming home

    注释
    (1).I've done my time:我已刑满了
    (2).put the blame on me:将过错都归于我


1 oak
n.栎树,橡树,栎木,橡木
  • The chair is of solid oak.这把椅子是纯橡木的。
  • The carpenter will floor this room with oak.木匠将用橡木铺设这个房间的地板。
2 damn
int.该死,他妈的;vt.指责,贬斥,诅咒
  • Damn this useless typewriter!这台破打字机真该死!
  • I knew damn well what he was going to say.我非常清楚他要说什么。
学英语单词
absorptive capacity
Achélouma
acid recovery plant
act of war
ampelopsises
anal plate
answering services
artificial joint
audibility range
audit office's mandate
average functionality
baby broker
be unqualified to do sth
blood freezes
bludgeon
bound in honour to do something
carrying initiating signal
cashmere rug
Catanil
chemical spray
coceine
coherence light
comb clamp
comsement
condense dye
contractualism
copists
correlation and regression quality
course beacon
cuprofen
cyberchurch
DHPU
diamond-thrower
direct-current key pulsing
distal process
Dombovar
dubitancy
epi
equatorial section
family naticidaes
finish on face and back
Foard City
get the boot
Göschweiler
hidden depths
image-processings
interpretation method
iron shaving
ktypeite
leaning back
linea intercondylica
lobulous
logical semantic term relation
long selling
mattoon
mixed type escapement
monopuff
obnoxiousnesses
pair of alphanumeric character
paterson's corpuscle
paying bank's charge
person-as-scientist metaphor
phase-shift circulator
photomultiplie
photon counting spectrophotometer
prince albert yews
prolapse of vitreous
pulpiform
quarter-elliptic spring
reapproaches
remote level indicator
RRV
RX monitor
safety glove
scaldfish
scrappier
semi-balance
side protector
signal demodulation
sinopite
soaraways
soy isoflavone
spaceborne laser radar
spray degreasing
standard frequency and time signal station
stormable
swivel disk jointer
symbolicisms
the grass is greener
thorw
torque output
transvitreal
trunk switching scheme
unamortized share-issuing expenses
voltage fluctuations
weihenstephaner
welt brush
wichter
wind being primary pathogen
wood maller
x-ray streak camera
zermattite