Sutter's Mill
时间：2018-12-14 作者：英语课 分类：英语歌曲第六辑
In the Spring of Forty-seven,
So the story, it is told,
Old John Sutter went to the mill site
Found a piece of shining gold.
Well, he took it to the city
Where the word, like wildfire, spread.
And old John Sutter soon came to wish he’d
Left that stone in the river bed.
For they came like herds 1 of locusts
Every woman, child and man
In their lumbering 2 Conestogas
They left their tracks upon the land.
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Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance
And some would curse John Sutter’s Mill.
Well, they came from New York City,
And they came from Alabam’
With their dreams of finding fortunes
In this wild unsettled land.
Well, some fell prey 3 to hostile arrows
As they tried to cross the plains.
And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains
With their hands froze to the reins 4.
Oh...
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Well, some pushed on to California
And others stopped to take their rest.
And by the Spring of Eighteen-sixty
They had opened up the west.
And then the railroad came behind them
And the land was plowed 5 and tamed,
When Old John Sutter went to meet his maker,
He’d not one penny to his name.
Oh...
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And some would curse John Sutter’s Mill
Some men’s thirsts are never filled.
- Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
- There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。
- Lumbering and, later, paper-making were carried out in smaller cities. 木材业和后来的造纸都由较小的城市经营。
- Lumbering is very important in some underdeveloped countries. 在一些不发达的国家，伐木业十分重要。
- Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
- The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。