It doesn't matter if you're black, white, or yellow
if you're brown or red
Let's get down to that
Love is color-blind
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
1. black/blind两词中都包含辅音连缀/bl/。要注意在辅音之间不要拖出元音
2. blind 包含难发音组/aɪn/
言之有物:
1. It doesn't matter if you're black, white, or yellow
if you're brown or red
无论你是黑人、白种人还是黄种人,抑或是棕色人还是红种人,都没关系
→歌曲原声中 it don't matter... don't的语法说明:
在英文歌曲里,时常出现与语法不相符的句子和短语。这在歌曲及非正规口语中是允许的。
有这样的句子和短语出现是为了让这首歌曲听起来更连贯、更舒畅、更押韵等。
在这首歌里,It don't matter从语法上讲是错误的,It后面肯定是接三人称单数形式。Don't和doesn't的区别就是前者比后者少一个音节。所以作词者选用了错误的语法创造了顺畅的音乐。
→black, white, yellow, brown, red 等词汇在该句中表示 “XX肤色的;XX人种的”
Over half the students are black.
有超过一半的学生是黑人。
词链儿:it doesn't matter if... 如果XX也没关系
It doesn't matter if you have no time.
如果你没时间也没关系。
It doesn't matter if the shoes feel a bit tight. They'll stretch with wearing.
这种鞋小点不要紧,穿穿就大了。
2.Let's get down to that. 让我们一起来实现。
词链儿:get down to sth/doing sth
开始做〔需要花费许多时间或精力的事〕
Let’s get down to the nittygritty and work out the costs.
我们来谈谈实质性问题,把成本计算出来吧。
I always find it hard to get down to revising.
我一直觉得很难打起精神开始温习。
★原声例句:...so that we can get down to what's truly happening.
这样我们就能看看真正发生了什么。
★原声例句:She had to actually get down to business right away.
她得立即着手工作了。
...how we get down to tacks of brass.
下面我们来讨论下实质问题。
图片源自《守护者联盟》
Let's get down to the facts, all right?
我们都坦白点,怎么样?
图片源自《禁闭岛》
You should get down to the beach for…
你应该去海滩上……
图片源自《迷失》
3. Love is color-blind. 爱无定界。
color-blind的两种释义:
① unable to see the difference between all or some colours
色盲的
Some people are said to be color-blind.
据说有些人是色盲。
Dogs are color-blind, Gretchen.
狗是色盲的,格雷琴。
图片源自《穿越时空爱上你》
Red?But I'm color blind!
红色的?但我是色盲!
图片源自《女子监狱》
② treating people from different races equally and fairly
平等对待其他种族的
The law should be colour-blind.
法律不应存在种族歧视。
活学活用:
请用 get down to sth/doing sth 随意造句
《爱无定界/爱无种族界限》(love is color blind):德国女歌手Sarah Connor联手美国说唱男歌手TQ演唱,歌曲于2003年11月17日由X-Cell Records公司发行,收录于Sarah的第三张录音室专辑《Key To My Soul》。
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