时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:音乐咖啡厅


英语课
电影《断背山》的插曲,翻唱的是60年代乡村音乐巨匠罗格-米勒(Roger Miller)的名作《公路之王》(King of the Road)。——一首人在旅途的歌。没有电话,没有泳池,没有宠物,一辆能卖也能租的拖车,一个穷途末路又无所不能的男人。“我知道每一辆火车上的每一位机械师,以及他们的孩子,他们孩子的名字。我知道每一个村庄的刊物,以及周围没人的时候,哪扇门是没上锁的”……

King Of The Road  
Rufus Wainwright


Trailers for sale or rent. Rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets. I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but two hours of pushing broom.
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means. King of the road


Third boxcar, midnight train. Destination...bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and shoes. I don't pay no union dues
I smoke old stogies I have found. Short, but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means. King of the road


I know every engineer on every train
All of their children, and all of their names
And every handout 1 in every town
And every lock that ain't locked when no one's around


I sing,
Trailers for sale or rent. Rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets. I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but two hours of pushing broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means. King of the road


重点词汇






trailer  n. 拖车式活动房屋




wear out  v. 穿破,用坏






due  n. (复数)应付款




stogie  n. 笨重的长靴






boxcar  n. 货车车厢




handout  n. 分发的印刷品








n.散发的文字材料;救济品
  • I read the handout carefully.我仔细看了这份分发的资料。
  • His job was distributing handout at the street-corner.他的工作是在街头发传单。
学英语单词
a. c. dump
acidimetry
additional costs assigned to by product
aids-afflicted
alternating-current impedance
angular fistula
arietta, ariette
augment nozzle
bass bins
Batesian
belemnite
bielliptical transfer orbit
bottom casting (pouring )
bread pill
bricklayer's itch
bruxists
bye-channel
c's
c21 hydroxylase defect
cam control unit
carpology
causal event stream
characteristic underflow
chocolate eclairs
codactide
CPU multiplier
dabble with
day-cases
dihydroxycholesterol
discigerous
dorsal lateral nucleus
dunnage bags
easytouse
Edgeworthia chrysantha
falling into
fast-acting
forced covering
formidably
four-door type of body
freight tonnage carried
frontogenetical function
fungia (verrillofungia) repanda
g-waxes
grass-sickness
grooved dead center
heart-hand syndrome
hereabout
hyalinizing spindle cell tumor
hydrogenium
i-schete
idearium
Infusors
intact condition
interossei
Isak Dinesen
kendricks
Khonkholoy
Lagrange saddle point
law of conservation
Little Dart R.
maintenance ship
majnuns
make up heat
microwave filter
ornamental gold
overaccommodated
palpebral
paranoidal
persantin
photondensitiometry
planar stator motor
polymeric ultrafiltration membrane
Post system
pratzen
presuperheater
radiomarker
rami interventricularis anterior
re-occupied
rebriefs
reporting exchange gains and losses
saturation magnetic circuit
schnitzer
sciuromorphas
screen drier
seatone
sneeze reflex
solution concepts
space myopia
spot trader
steam heated
swipe me
Swisserland
system diskette facility
tail-ends
the rather that
time-dependent method
tonsillotomes
tunnel entrance
type of foundation
uniqueness of viscous liquid motion
unsnapping
written all over someone's face