Chasing Cars

• By: Snow Patrol
• Album: The Forest Is The Path

Lyrics:

[English]

[中文]

(stirring soft rock music)

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♪ We'll do it all ♪

我们会做到一切

♪ Everything ♪

所有的事情

♪ On our own ♪

靠我们自己

♪ We don't need ♪

...

♪ Anything ♪

任何东西

♪ Or anyone ♪

或任何人

♪ If I lie here ♪

如果我躺在这里

♪ If I just lie here ♪

如果我就这样躺着

♪ Would you lie with me ♪

你会和我一起躺下，忘记这个世界吗？

♪ And just forget the world ♪

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♪ I don't quite know ♪

我不太知道

♪ How to say ♪

怎么说

♪ How I feel ♪

我的感受

♪ Those three words ♪

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♪ Are said too much ♪

说得太多

♪ They're not enough ♪

却不够

♪ If I lie here ♪

...

♪ If I just lie here ♪

如果我就这样躺着

♪ Would you lie with me ♪

你会和我一起躺下，忘记这个世界吗？

♪ And just forget the world ♪

...

♪ Forget what we're told ♪

忘掉我们被告知的

♪ Before we get too old ♪

在我们变得太老之前

♪ Show me a garden ♪

给我看看一个充满生机的花园

♪ That's bursting into life ♪

...

♪ Let's waste time ♪

让我们浪费时间

♪ Chasing cars ♪

追逐汽车

♪ Around our heads ♪

在我们头顶上

♪ If I lie here ♪

如果我躺在这里

♪ If I just lie here ♪

...

♪ Would you lie with me ♪

...

♪ And just forget the world ♪

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♪ All that I am ♪

我所有的一切

♪ All that I ever was ♪

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♪ Is here in your perfect eyes ♪

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♪ They're all I can see ♪

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♪ I don't know where ♪

我不知道在哪里

♪ Confused about how as well ♪

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♪ Just know that these things ♪

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♪ Will never change for us at all ♪

只要知道这些事情对我们来说永远不会改变

♪ If I lie here ♪

...

♪ If I just lie here ♪

如果我躺在这里

♪ Would you lie with me ♪

...

♪ And just forget the world ♪

你会和我一起躺下，忘记这个世界吗？

Vocabulary in this song:

Vocabulary	Meanings
lie /laɪ/ A2	verb - 躺
forget /fərˈɡet/ A2	verb - 忘记
world /wɜːld/ A1	noun - 世界
words /wɜːdz/ A1	noun - 词
told /toʊld/ A1	verb - 告诉
old /oʊld/ A1	adjective - 老的
garden /ˈɡɑːrdən/ A2	noun - 花园
life /laɪf/ A1	noun - 生命
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - 时间
chasing /ˈtʃeɪsɪŋ/ B1	verb - 追逐
cars /kɑːrz/ A1	noun - 汽车
heads /hedz/ A1	noun - 头
eyes /aɪz/ A1	noun - 眼睛
perfect /ˈpɜːrfɪkt/ B1	adjective - 完美的
change /tʃeɪndʒ/ A2	verb - 改变

Grammar:

• We don't need Anything Or anyone

  ➔ 否定一致（双重否定）和并列

  ➔ 这句话使用 "don't need"（否定）后跟 "Anything Or anyone"，暗示了更进一步的否定方面。虽然在正式场合中，这种语法在技术上可能有问题，但在非正式的言语和歌曲的歌词中，这是一种常见的文体选择，用来强调。'Or' 并列了 'anything' 和 'anyone'。

• If I lie here If I just lie here Would you lie with me And just forget the world

  ➔ 条件句 (第二类), 情态动词 "would", 和祈使语气 (以柔和的形式)

  ➔ 歌词使用第二类条件句: "If I lie here...would you lie with me"。这表达了一种不真实或不太可能发生的情况。 "Would" 是一个情态动词，表达了一种礼貌的请求或假设的情况。 "forget the world" 可以被看作是一种缓和的祈使语气，它不是一个直接的命令，而是一个恳求。

• Forget what we're told Before we get too old

  ➔ 被动语态 (we're told) 和 'too' + 形容词 (too old)

  ➔ "we're told" 是被动语态，表示有人（未指明）正在告诉我们一些事情。 "too old" 使用 'too' 来表示过度的程度。

• Let's waste time Chasing cars Around our heads

  ➔ 祈使语气 (Let's) 和用作运动动词的现在分词 (chasing)

  ➔ "Let's waste time" 是一种祈使语气，建议采取行动。 "Chasing" 是一个现在分词，修饰 "time"，描述了用哪种类型的活动来浪费时间。它充当一个动词，描述与浪费时间相关的运动或行动。

• All that I am All that I ever was Is here in your perfect eyes

  ➔ 关系从句 (All that I am, All that I ever was), 和主谓一致 (is)

  ➔ "All that I am" 和 "All that I ever was" 是作为句子主语的关系从句。 动词 "is" 与单数主语（两个从句所表达的整个概念）一致。

• I don't know where Confused about how as well

  ➔ 省略和副词短语

  ➔ "Confused about how as well" 是省略的; 完整的从句可能像 "I am confused about how as well"。 "As well" 是一个副词短语，表示对先前声明的补充。