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。
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1-phenylbutane
agency by estoppel
Aglaia odorata
Anglo-Merino
anti-ovalbumin
antiglycolytic
authorization credential
autofellator
babblin
Ban Tha Don
batch process
benzoylprop-ethyl
Bethe-Hurwitz effect
Bike.
blast furnace block
boiler flue gas
bottom-hinged window
Boulting
cam die
camtovogesite
cherry pit
cinemaddict
clandestine operations
clearance for pulling condenser tubes
colamine
copepod
correcting signal
costal tuberculosis
cottonbelt
CPU architecture
deep water pier
demand function
desaeration
disk emulator
electric roaster
employee satisfaction survey
end-of-life decision
erbium-doped single-mode fiber
eviscerated carcass
exhaust hole
Exmouth G.
Extended capabilities port
fermi mechanism
first order expression
flashback
floating reserve
gain an offing
Gary Glitter
Gauss meter
grapple(r)
Herrhamra
high-aspect-ratios
hypothalamo-adenohypophyseal system
Impatiens tsangshanensis
implexus
injury of kidney
inosine pranobex
intermediate or interlobate moraine
investment income ratio
jenn-air
kind-heartednesses
knowledge aided protocol automation
latha
let sb down
locating surface
log grapple
loop-pile
lusy
mentalises
monetizer
mophy
myelacephalus
Napaea
non-planning
nonferromagnetic material
northern porgies
occupied beds
overrehearsed
pan-algebraic curve
photometer screen
polar cap stage
precipitation-measuring radar
Puccinellia florida
put sb in his place
recommitted
Safi, C.
Saint Venant's principle
Schistosoma mansoni var. rodentorum
service expense
shakespeares
smudginess
spread-linked note
tax analysis
technical achievement
thersitical
Thiodril
tinge
undiagnosably
urinal cakes
vertical text
whitish locus
zip cuffs