Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

• By: Gordon Lightfoot
• Album: Summertime Dream

Lyrics:

[English]

[中文]

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

奇珀瓦的传说依旧流传

Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee

在被称为吉特的大湖上

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

...

When the skies of November turn gloomy

据说这湖从不放过它的

With a load of iron ore, 26 thousand tons more

...

Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

满载着两万六千多吨铁矿石

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed

那艘优秀的货轮，注定成为

When the gales of November came early

...

The ship was the pride of the American side

这艘船是美国的骄傲

Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin

美国这边的骄傲

As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most

从威斯康星州的某个码头返航

With a crew and good captain well seasoned

作为大型货轮，它比大多数

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms

经验丰富

When they left fully loaded for Cleveland

前往克利夫兰

And later that night when the ship's bell rang

铃声响起

Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

...

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound

感觉到的时候

And a wave broke over the railing

风和电线发出喋喋不休的

And every man knew, as the captain did too

每个人，包括船长都意识到

T'was the witch of November come stealin'

...

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait

黎明姗姗来迟，早餐不得不

When the Gales of November came slashin'

推迟，当十一月的狂风暴雨

When afternoon came it was freezin' rain

当下午来临，是冰冷的雨

In the face of a hurricane west wind

...

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'

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"Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"

当晚餐时间到来，老厨师来到

At 7 p.m. a main hatchway caved in, he said

给你们做饭了。”

"Fellas, it's been good t'know ya"

晚上七点，一个主舱口破裂，他说

The captain wired in he had water comin' in

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And the good ship and crew was in peril

船长发报说，船进水了

And later that night when his lights went outta sight

那天晚上，当他的灯光

Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

从视线中消失，埃德蒙·菲茨杰拉德号

Does anyone know where the love of God goes

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When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

有谁知道上帝的爱

The searches all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay

搜寻者都说，如果他们

If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her

...

They might have split up or they might have capsized

他们可能已经解体，或者可能

They may have broke deep and took water

已经倾覆，他们可能在深处断裂

And all that remains is the faces and the names

而剩下的只有面容和

Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

女儿的名字

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings

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In the rooms of her ice-water mansion

歌声

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams

在她冰冷的水下宫殿里

The islands and bays are for sportsmen

古老的密歇根，像年轻人一样

And farther below Lake Ontario

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Takes in what Lake Erie can send her

在更远的安大略湖

And the iron boats go as the mariners all know

吸纳了莱格、埃里克和桑德

With the Gales of November remembered

铁船航行，正如所有水手

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed

将被铭记

In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral

奇珀瓦的传说依旧流传

The church bell chimed till it rang 29 times

在被称为吉特的大湖上

For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald

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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

提前到来

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

...

Superior, they said, never gives up her dead

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When the gales of November come early

...

...

...

Vocabulary in this song:

Vocabulary	Meanings
legend /ˈledʒənd/ B2	noun - 传说
lake /leɪk/ A1	noun - 湖
skies /skaɪz/ A2	noun - 天空
November /noʊˈvembər/ A1	noun - 十一月
ship /ʃɪp/ A1	noun - 船
gales /ɡeɪlz/ B2	noun - 大风
pride /praɪd/ B1	noun - 自豪
captain /ˈkæptɪn/ A2	noun - 船长
night /naɪt/ A1	noun - 夜晚
wind /wɪnd/ A1	noun - 风
wave /weɪv/ A2	noun - 波浪
witch /wɪtʃ/ B1	noun - 女巫
rain /reɪn/ A1	noun - 雨
deck /dek/ A2	noun - 甲板
lights /laɪts/ A1	noun - 光
wreck /rek/ B1	noun - 残骸 verb - 使沉没

Grammar:

• The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

  ➔ 使用 "it is said" 的插入语

  ➔ 短语 "it is said" 插入到主句中，以强调或表明该信息是众所周知或相信的，但不一定经过验证。 它增加了一种民间传说或传奇色彩。 它的作用就像一个插入语，打断了句子的流畅性。

• Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

  ➔ 使用 "than" 的比较从句

  ➔ 这使用比较连词 "than" 来比较铁矿石的重量和埃德蒙·菲茨杰拉德号的空重。 它表达了差异的程度。 结构是：more + 名词 + "than" + 名词。

• That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed

  ➔ "bone to be chewed" 的隐喻用法

  ➔ "bone to be chewed" 这个短语是一种隐喻，暗示这艘船对于狂风暴雨来说是难以对付或具有挑战性的。 它暗示着一场斗争或冲突。

• When the gales of November came early

  ➔ 使用 "when" 的时间状语从句

  ➔ 这使用 "when" 来引入一个从句，该从句指示主句事件发生的时间。 从属从句（风暴提前到来）为主句事件提供了时间背景。

• Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

  ➔ 疑问句的倒装，过去完成进行时 (they had been feeling)

  ➔ 这句话是一个问题。 助动词 "could" 放在主语 "it" 之前，颠倒了典型的主语-动词顺序来形成问题。 "They'd been feelin'" 是 "they had been feeling" 的缩写，即过去完成进行时。 这意味着在有问题的时刻之前，北风的感觉已经发生了一段时间。

• They might have split up or they might have capsized

  ➔ 情态动词 "might" 与完成时不定式 "have + 过去分词" 表达对过去的推测

  ➔ "Might have split up" 和 "might have capsized" 表明了船只可能发生的各种情况。 "Might" 的使用表明不确定性。 结构表达了对过去事件的推测。

• Takes in what Lake Erie can send her

  ➔ 使用 "what" 作为融合关系代词的关系从句。

  ➔ 单词 "what" 充当融合关系代词，结合了关系代词及其先行词的角色。 因此，“what Lake Erie can send her” 的意思是 “the things that Lake Erie can send her”。 它充当动词 “takes in” 的直接宾语。