Country Roads Take Me Home 歌词中英对照解释版

Take Me Home, Country Roads
演唱：John Denver Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain mama
Take me home, Country roads
All my memories, gathered round her
Miner's a lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste the moonshine, teardrops in my eye
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain mama
Take me home, Country roads
I hear her voice in the morning hours she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road I get a feeling that
I should have been home yesterday, yesterday
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain mama
Take me home, Country roads
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
Take me home, down country roads
Take me home, down country roads
乡村路带我回家
约翰·丹佛
西弗吉尼亚，总如天堂一般，
那儿有蓝岭山脉，谢南多亚河
生命在那里比树木更长久，
又如同山脉那般年轻，
像清风一样飘逝。

故乡的路，带我回家吧，
回到我期盼已久的归宿，
西弗吉尼亚，大山母亲，
带我回家吧，故乡的路。

我所有的记忆都围绕着她
她是矿工的妻子，从未见过深邃的大海，
黑暗与灰尘在天空中绘出颜色，
在那朦胧的月光下，泪水涌出我的眼睛。

故乡的路，带我回家吧，
回到我期盼已久的归宿，
西弗吉尼亚，大山母亲，
带我回家吧，故乡的路。

清晨我听见一个声音在对我呼唤，
收音机里的声音让我想起了遥远的家，
沿着公路行驶，我心中产生这样的感觉：
也许我昨天就该回到家中，就在昨天！
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歌词、句型分析
1．Almost heaven west Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
=West Virginia is where there are mountains and Shenandoah River is almost heaven.
=West Virginia is a place which is almost as beautiful as heaven – there you will find many beautiful landscapes including the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River.
西弗吉尼亚，简直就象天堂一样——在那里可以看到蓝岭及雪兰多河。

2．Life is old there, older than the trees.
=West Virginia has been around for a long time, and people there live a very
traditional life.
like a breeze:像微风一样
例如: Smile is like sunshine and like a breeze. It makes others happy.
微笑如阳光，又如微风，令人高兴。

这一节大概意思是：那里生活久远，指很早便有生命存在，与树比，比树老，与山比，则比山年轻，徐徐生长如清风。

3．Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
= Country roads, please take me home to the place where I belong.
belong to 属于
例如:This book belongs to me.这本书是我的。

belong还可以跟表示地点的介词短语。

例如: Put the chair back at the corner. It always belongs in the corner.
把椅子放回到墙角处。

它总是放在那儿的。

4．Mama n. 妈妈（小孩用以称呼母亲）
此处的Mountain Mama是指在西弗吉尼亚有很多的山，而这些山就象慈母一样孕育我，所以此处Mountain Mama就是指West Virginia。

5．The radio reminds me of my home far away.
the radio可能是汽车上的收音机可能是收音机里
放的音乐或歌曲使他更怀念家乡。

reminds sb of sth:使人想起
例如: This song reminds me of my hometown too.这首歌也使我想起故乡。

This picture reminds me of my college life.这张照片使我想起我上大学时的生活。

far away: in a remote place在很远的地方
例如: My home is far away from here.我的家离这儿很远。

6．And driving down the road, I get a felling that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.
=While I’m driving down the road I start to feel that I should have gone home a long time ago.
在我驱车回家的路上，我有一种早就该回家的感觉。

should have done sth表示―本当做……‖
例如: You should have gone there.你本应当去那里。

7．All my memories gather round her, miner's lady, stranger to blue water.
= All my memories gather around her, who is a miner's lady, and also a stranger to blue water
=I keep thinking of my mother, who is a miner’s wife, and who has nefer seen an ocean before.
be a stranger to…:对…陌生的人；对…不懂的
例如: I am a stranger to art.我是个不懂艺术的人。

Blue water = blue oceans。