Dance with My Father

英文歌詞:

Back when I was a child

Before life removed all the innocence

My father would lift me high

And dance with my mother and me then

Spin me around till I fell asleep

Then up the stairs he would carry me

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And I knew for sure I was loved

If I could get another chance

Another walk

Another dance with him

I'd play a song that would never, ever end

How I love, love, love

To dance with my father again

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When I and my mother would disagree

To get my way I would run from her to him

He'd make me laugh just to comfort me

Then finally make me do just what my mama said

Later that night when I was asleep

He left a dollar under my sheet

Never dreamed that he would be gone from me

If I could steal one final glance

One final step

One final dance with him

I'd play a song that would never, ever end

Cause I love, love, love

To dance with my father again

Sometimes I'd listen outside her door

And I'd hear how my mother cried for him

I pray for her even more than me

I pray for her even more than me

I know I'm praying so much too much

But could you send back the only man she loved

I know u don't do it usually

But dear lord she's dying

To dance with my father again

Every night I fall asleep this is all I ever dream

學(xué)習(xí)筆記：

life removed all the innocence

用很形象化的手法，描繪小時(shí)候的天真懵懂；在寫(xiě)作中運(yùn)用這種形象化的手法，能給考官感覺(jué)到文章符合英文嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)?shù)牧?xí)慣。

所以一般烤鴨們?cè)趯?xiě)類似意思的句子的時(shí)候，能寫(xiě)出when I was innocent 就已經(jīng)很不錯(cuò)了，以后烤鴨們可以借鑒一下這種寫(xiě)法。

2.I play a song that would never, ever end

用ever進(jìn)行再次強(qiáng)調(diào)，never和ever兩個(gè)詞在尾音押韻，很朗朗上口。

在雅思口語(yǔ)中強(qiáng)調(diào)“永遠(yuǎn)不”時(shí)，可以嘗試著開(kāi)始使用，能給考官感覺(jué)很地道的。

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既可以做動(dòng)詞也可以做名詞，一般在使用時(shí)，會(huì)較常用到其形容詞形式comfortable。

這里需要說(shuō)明一下make sb. comfortable 的意思是使某人舒適，但comfort sb. 的意思是安慰某人，二者的意思不太相同。

I could steal one final glance

steal 用的很有特色，有一種做賊的意味，由于父親已經(jīng)離去了，所以歌者的這種愿望是不可能實(shí)現(xiàn)的。在西方宗教上這種愿望是有違上帝的旨意，所以歌詞在描述時(shí)，使用了略帶罪惡感的steal。

dying to do

渴望做某事，可以用來(lái)替換desire to do的老套說(shuō)法。

或者在口語(yǔ)中也可使用，略帶夸張幽默的說(shuō)法。