时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:金属


英语课

The Divine Comedy是英国流行乐坛的鬼才音乐人Neil Hannon化名的一人团体,这首A Lady Of A Certain Age是一首很诗意的轻松小品,伴奏是典雅的弦乐,掺杂着民谣的味道。这首歌选自专辑Victory For The Comic Muse,这个名字是截取自英国文学大师E.M. Forster的名著A Room With A View中的一句对白。



Back in the day you had been part of the smart set

You'd holidayed with kings, dined out with starlets

From London to New York, Cap Ferrat to Capri

In perfume by Chanel and clothes by Givenchy

You sipped 1 camparis with David and Peter

At Noel's parties by Lake Geneva

Scaling the dizzy heights of high society

Armed only with a cheque-book and a family tree



You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur

Until the light of youth became obscured

And left you on your own and in the shade

An English lady of a certain age

And if a nice young man would buy you a drink

You'd say with a conspiratorial 2 wink 3

"You wouldn't think that I was seventy"

And he'd say,"no, you couldn't be!"



You had to marry someone very very rich

So that you might be kept in the style to which

You had all of your life been accustomed to

But that the socialists 4 had taxed away from you

You gave him children, a girl and a boy

To keep your sanity 5 a nanny was employed

And when the time came they were sent away

Well that was simply what you did in those days



You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur

Until the light of youth became obscured

And left you on your own and in the shade

An English lady of a certain age

And if a nice young man would buy you a drink

You'd say with a conspiratorial wink

"You wouldn't think that I was sixty three"

And he'd say,"no, you couldn't be!



Your son's in stocks and bonds and lives back in Surrey

Flies down once in a while and leaves in a hurry

Your daughter never finished her finishing school

Married a strange young man of whom you don't approve

Your husband's hollow heart gave out one Christmas Day

He left the villa 6 to his mistress in Marseilles

And so you come here to escape your little flat

Hoping someone will fill your glass and let you chat about how



You chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur

Until the light of youth became obscured

And left you all alone and in the shade

An English lady of a certain age

And if a nice young man would buy you a drink

You'd say with a conspiratorial wink

"You wouldn't think that I was fifty three"

And he'd say,"no, you couldn't be!



v.小口喝,呷,抿( sip的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He sipped his coffee pleasurably. 他怡然地品味着咖啡。
  • I sipped the hot chocolate she had made. 我小口喝着她调制的巧克力热饮。 来自辞典例句
adj.阴谋的,阴谋者的
  • She handed the note to me with a conspiratorial air. 她鬼鬼祟祟地把字条交给了我。 来自辞典例句
  • It was enough to win a gap-toothed, conspiratorial grin. 这赢得对方咧嘴一笑。 来自互联网
n.眨眼,使眼色,瞬间;v.眨眼,使眼色,闪烁
  • He tipped me the wink not to buy at that price.他眨眼暗示我按那个价格就不要买。
  • The satellite disappeared in a wink.瞬息之间,那颗卫星就消失了。
社会主义者( socialist的名词复数 )
  • The socialists saw themselves as true heirs of the Enlightenment. 社会主义者认为自己是启蒙运动的真正继承者。
  • The Socialists junked dogma when they came to office in 1982. 社会党人1982年上台执政后,就把其政治信条弃之不顾。
n.心智健全,神智正常,判断正确
  • I doubt the sanity of such a plan.我怀疑这个计划是否明智。
  • She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
n.别墅,城郊小屋
  • We rented a villa in France for the summer holidays.我们在法国租了一幢别墅消夏。
  • We are quartered in a beautiful villa.我们住在一栋漂亮的别墅里。
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all-or-nothing
antemortem inspection
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backvelder
Barents Island
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caparas
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flue dust collector
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Fosfocin
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genus Vespa
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ham fat
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hemispherical rotor pole
high-flowest
identity diffusion
ilana
impor-tant
kalle
kanny
Khāchrod
Lachesis flavovilidis
Langstedt
leakproof fuel tank
legislatrices
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loran rate
major diameter relief
mass merchandising
misevaluations
mouloud
Nahuatl language
Nodi lymphatici mesenterici centrales
Northern European
one-chip product
opt-
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parallel tangent method
pelvic part
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primary photochemical process
pull someones leg
put up a resistance
Putinisation
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quinaria
Ramus prelaminaris
realities
resistor colo(u)r code
return of foreign trade
right of denunciation
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schedul
Scleria onoei
sea main thermocline
secure storage
separation cell
single-current system
sitalidone
situs
snack
stack switch
swagger coat
three phase hoist motor
three-corner
u.t. 2 time
union three-way cock
valve system
varnish formation
water hammers
xeroxed