2023考研英语：《经济学人》中英读译Day153

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(2)

“Lend me your ears” in “With a Little Help from My Friends” is pinched from “Julius Caesar”.Sir Paul says the girl who is “way beyond compare” in “I Saw Her Standing There” harks back to the sonnet about a summer’s day.His link to Hamlet’s near-dying words—“but let it be”—seems more of a stretch.The melody usually comes first, Sir Paul says of his writing process.The tune of “Yesterday” arrived in a dream; its working title was “Scrambled Eggs”.Next he looks for characters to sketch: “Once you get into creating a narrative and storytelling, it is so much more entertaining.”Some songs are ensembles of voices, such as “Band on the Run” and “Penny Lane” (written partly in free indirect speech).
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《得到了朋友们的一点帮助》中的“借我你的耳朵”是从《凯撒大帝》一书中摘录的。保罗爵士说《我看见她站在那里》中的那个“无与伦比”的女孩是以那首描写夏日的十四行诗为原形的。但他将“但随它去吧”与哈姆雷特临终前的话语联系起来似乎有点牵强。保罗爵士在谈到他的写作过程时说，旋律通常是先出现的。《昨天》的曲调于睡梦中响起；当时给它暂定的歌名是《炒鸡蛋》。接下来，他寻找字词写初稿：“一旦你开始创作记叙性的故事，这个过程就会变得有趣很多。”有些歌曲是各种人物话语的混合，比如《逃亡乐队》和《便士巷》（部分是用自由间接引语写的）。

 

Others are portraits, such as the solitary woman in “Another Day”, or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles’ spiritual adviser, in “The Fool on the Hill”.Even when Sir Paul uses the first person, he often inhabits another persona.For “The Long and Winding Road” he pretended to be Ray Charles; mimicking other writers is a habitual “disappearing trick”.Of “Maybe I’m Amazed”, usually interpreted as an ode to Linda, his first wife, he insists that: “Starting with myself, the characters who appear in my songs are imagined.”Overall he makes a strong case for treating his work as poetry.Lennon, he says, “never had anything like my interest in literature”.It was cynicism that secured his bandmate’s acclaim: “It’s easier to get critical approval if you rail against things and swear a lot.”

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还有一些是人物刻画，比如《另一天》中的孤独女人，或者《山上的傻瓜》中的玛哈西·马赫什·约吉，他是披头士乐队的精神导师。即使保罗爵士使用第一人称书写，他也经常扮演另一个角色。在《漫长而曲折的道路》中，他假装自己是雷·查尔斯；模仿其他作家是一种习惯性的“消失把戏”。在《也许我很惊讶》（这首歌通常被解读为献给第一任妻子琳达的颂歌）中，他坚称：“我歌曲中出现的人物都是我想象出来的。”总的来说，他极力主张将他的作品视为诗歌。他说，列侬“从来没有像我这样对文学感兴趣”。正是这种愤世嫉俗的态度为他的乐队成员赢得了赞誉：“如果你对一些事情喋喋不休，骂骂咧咧，就更容易得到评论家的认可。”

 

Frequently he contrasts Lennon’s tough childhood, in which guardians absconded or died, with the jolly, loving family who gave Sir Paul an optimistic outlook.That is why his songs are often about the happiness of ordinary folk.Lennon is arguably the main character in “The Lyrics”, memories of Sir Paul’s best friend and fiercest rival popping up in songs written long after his death.Harrison and Ringo Starr rarely intrude.All the same, this is an enlightening account of how some of the greatest-ever songs came about.It also illuminates Sir Paul’s attachment to his Liverpudlian and Irish heritage, the challenges of going solo and his musical ambitions today.If at times it is rambling and repetitive, what fan will not enjoy a meander that feels like a long private audience with one of the Fab Four?

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他经常把列侬艰难的童年（监护人逃跑或去世了）与他欢乐的、充满爱的家庭进行对比，这些让保罗爵士拥有了乐观的生活态度。这就是为什么他的歌曲经常描绘普通人的幸福。列侬可以说是《歌词》一书的主角，保罗爵士对他这位最好的朋友、也是最凶猛的对手进行了回忆，在列侬死后很久，保罗才在歌曲中写到他。哈里森和林戈·斯塔尔很少出现。尽管如此，有关一些有史以来最伟大的歌曲是如何产生的，这本书还是进行了富有启发性的描述。这本书也展现出了保罗爵士对他利物浦和爱尔兰传统的依恋、单飞后的挑战以及他如今的音乐抱负。有时候他的行文有些漫无目的和重复，但哪个歌迷会不喜欢这样的漫步呢？那感觉就像是披头士四成员之一的私人听众一样。