2023考研英语：《经济学人》中英读译Day152

英语阅读能力依靠什么？必然是词汇的积累，但，仅仅是词汇的积累是不够了，更应该了解英语句式，不同句型所表达意义。如何培养自己的阅读语感呢？那么就跟着聚创考研网小编每天学一点英语，一起为考研筑起坚实的地基。阅读是需要积累的，就像我们需要经常和人沟通才会促进我们的表达能力一样~小伙伴跟着小编一起，每天坚持打卡，培养英语阅读能力及语感，了解文章一些经典词汇的用法。

经济学人:披头士乐队——一首悠长而曲折的颂歌(1)

The lives of distinguished people often take a lot of telling.Yet even devotees might raise an eyebrow at the heft of Sir Paul McCartney’s memoir: two volumes totalling 960 pages.Casual Beatles fans may be surprised by the title, too.Though most would consider Sir Paul the band’s best musician (with an honourable mention for George Harrison), John Lennon typically gets the plaudits for writing.In a poll by the BBC in 2001 to rank the greatest lyricists, Lennon received more than twice as many votes as McCartney.Superficially, “The Lyrics” is a coffee-table book.

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名人的生活往往有很多可讲的地方。然而，即使是狂热粉丝可能也会对保罗·麦卡特尼爵士回忆录的篇幅感到讶异：两卷本共计960页。喜欢披头士时间不长的粉丝可能还会对这个头衔感到惊讶。尽管大多数人认为保罗爵士是乐队中最优秀的音乐家（乔治·哈里森曾获得荣誉提名），但得到赞赏的通常是约翰·列侬的写作。在2001年英国广播公司对最伟大的作词人进行的投票中，列侬获得的票数是麦卡特尼的两倍多。从表面上看，《歌词》是一本适合摆在咖啡桌上的书。

 

Sir Paul has arranged 154 favourite compositions alphabetically, with lots of glossy photos.But in the essays that accompany each song, his underlying purpose is to affirm his status as a writer.They are based on 50 hours of conversation with Paul Muldoon, a prizewinning poet, in which Sir Paul reflected on his life, his lyrics and the relationship between them.Mr Muldoon calls Sir Paul a “great writer” who has learned from “an impressive array of literary masters: Dickens, Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll”.Sir Paul flaunts his bookish side.

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保罗爵士按字母顺序排列了154首最受欢迎的作品，还配上了许多精美的照片。但从每首歌附带的随笔中，可以看出他的潜在目的是肯定自己作为作家的地位。这些随笔基于与获奖诗人保罗·马尔登长达50个小时的对话，在对话中，保罗爵士回顾了他的生活、他的歌词以及它们之间的关系。马尔登先生称保罗爵士是一位“伟大的作家”，他从“一系列令人印象深刻的文学大师：狄更斯，莎士比亚，罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森，刘易斯·卡罗尔”身上汲取了营养。保罗爵士骄傲地展示着他书生气的一面。

He fondly recalls his favourite bookshop in Liverpool and an inspirational English teacher.The autobiographical snippets include many encounters with writers.As a young Beatle, he found himself talking to Bertrand Russell about imperialism, listening to Allen Ginsberg praise “Eleanor Rigby” and stumbling across Harold Pinter’s bathtub of champagne bottles.His songs are full of allusions.The index includes authors ranging from Edward Lear (mentioned in “Paperback Writer”) to Rabindranath Tagore (who inspired “Pipes of Peace”).Echoes of Shakespeare recur.

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他深情回忆了他在利物浦最喜欢的书店和一位启发他灵感的英语老师。自传片段中记述了与作家们的许多接触。作为一名年轻的披头士成员，他发现自己在和伯特兰·罗素谈论帝国主义，听艾伦·金斯伯格称赞《埃莉诺·里格比》，还无意中撞见了哈罗德·品特满是香槟酒瓶的浴缸。他的歌里充满了典故。索引涵盖了从爱德华·李尔（《平装书作家》中引用）到拉宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔（他启发了《言归于好》的创作）等作家。对莎士比亚的致敬反复出现。