I Can't Breathe

• 歌手: H.E.R.

歌詞:

[English]

[中文]

Nah

不

Starting a war, screaming, "Peace" at the same time

发动一场战争，同时喊着“和平”

All the corruption, injustice, the same crimes

所有的腐败、不公、相同的罪行

Always a problem if we do or don't fight

做或不做，总是一个问题

And we die, we don't have the same right

我们死去，我们没有同样的权利

What is a gun to a man that surrenders?

对一个投降的人来说，枪算得了什么？

What's it gonna take for someone to defend her?

到底要怎么做，才能有人站出来为她辩护？

If we all agree that we're equal as people

如果我们都同意人人平等

Then why can't we see what is evil?

那为什么看不到什么是邪恶？

I can't breathe

我无法呼吸

You're taking my life from me

你正在夺走我的生命

I can't breathe

我无法呼吸

Will anyone fight for me?

有人会为我而战吗？

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How do we cope when we don't love each other?

当我们不彼此相爱时，我们如何面对？

Where is the hope and the empathy? (Yeah)

希望和同情又在哪里？（是的）

How do we judge off the color?

我们怎么用肤色判断？

The structure was made to make us the enemy (yeah)

这结构本身就是要让我们成敌人（是的）

Prayin' for change 'cause the pain makes you tender

祈祷变革，因为痛苦让你变温柔

All of the names you refuse to remember

你拒记的所有名字

Was somebody's brother, friend

他们曾是兄弟、朋友

Or a son to a mother that's crying, singing

或是哭泣的母亲的儿子

I can't breathe

我无法呼吸

You're taking my life from me

你正在夺走我的生命

I can't breathe

我无法呼吸

Will anyone fight for me? (Yeah)

有人会为我而战吗？（是的）

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Will anyone fight for me?

有人会为我而战吗？

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(For me)

(为了我)

Trying times all the time

时刻都在艰难

Destruction of minds, bodies, and human rights

心灵、身体、人权的破坏

Stripped of bloodlines, whipped and confined

被剥夺血统，被鞭打，被拘禁

This is the American pride

这就是美國的自豪

It's justifying a genocide

在为种族灭绝辩护

Romanticizing the theft and bloodshed

浪漫化夺取与流血

That made America the land of the free

让美国成为自由之地

To take a black life, land of the free

用命夺取黑人的生命，向自由的土地

To bring a gun to a peaceful fight for civil rights

带枪去和平争取民权

You are desensitized to pulling triggers on innocent lives

你对无辜生命的枪击变得麻木

Because that's how we got here in the first place

因为这就是我们最初的起点

These wounds sink deeper than the bullet

这些伤痕比子弹更深

Your entitled hands could ever reach

你那自以为是的手，永远触及不到

Generations and generations of pain, fear, and anxiety

一代又一代的痛苦、恐惧与焦虑

Equality is walking without intuition

平等就是没有直觉地行走

Saying the protector and the killer is wearing the same uniform

说保护者和杀手穿着同一制服

The revolution is not televised

革命不是电视直播

Media perception is forced down the throats of closed minds

媒介认知被强行灌输给封闭的心灵

So it's lies in the headlines

所以新闻里的谎言

And generations of supremacy resulting in your ignorant, privileged eyes

以及代代相传的优越，都在你的无知和特权里

We breathe the same and we bleed the same

我们呼吸一样的空气，流着一样的血

But still, we don't see the same

但我们看的却不一样

Be thankful we are God-fearing

要感恩我们敬畏上帝

Because we do not seek revenge

因为我们不寻求复仇

We seek justice, we are past fear

我们追求正义，我们已超越恐惧

We are fed up eating your shit

我们吃腻了你的屁话

Because you think your so-called "Black friend"

因为你认为你的所谓“黑人朋友”

Validates your wokeness and erases your racism

证明了你的觉醒，抹去了你的种族偏见

That kind of uncomfortable conversation

那样不舒服的对话

Is too hard for your trust-fund pockets to swallow

对你的信托基金钱包来说太难承受

To swallow the strange fruit hanging from my family tree

承受我家族树上悬挂的奇异果

Because of your audacity

因为你的厚颜无耻

To say all men are created equal in the eyes of God

说所有人在上帝眼中是平等的

But disparage a man based on the color of his skin

却因肤色贬低一个人

Do not say you do not see color

别说你看不到色彩

When you see us, see us

当你看见我们，看到我们

We can't breathe

我无法呼吸

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この曲の語彙:

語彙	意味
breathe /briːð/ B1	verb - 呼吸
fight /faɪt/ B1	verb - 打斗
hope /hoʊp/ A2	noun - 希望
change /tʃeɪndʒ/ A2	noun - 变化
justice /ˈdʒʌstɪs/ B2	noun - 正义
pain /peɪn/ A2	noun - 疼痛
corruption /kəˈrʌpʃən/ B2	noun - 腐败
enemy /ˈɛnəmi/ B1	noun - 敌人
freedom /ˈfriːdəm/ B2	noun - 自由
surrender /səˈrɛndər/ B2	verb - 投降
equal /ˈiːkwəl/ B1	adjective - 平等的
fear /fɪr/ A2	noun - 恐惧
blood /blʌd/ A1	noun - 血液
media /ˈmiːdiə/ B2	noun - 媒体
privilege /ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ/ C1	noun - 特权
anxiety /æŋˈzaɪəti/ C1	noun - 焦虑

文法:

• Starting a war, screaming, "Peace" at the same time

  ➔ 动名词作主语

  ➔ 这个短语使用动名词 **Starting** 作为句子的主语，描述正在进行的动作。

• All the corruption, injustice, the same crimes

  ➔ 用逗号列出名词以做列举

  ➔ 用逗号列出名词，用于描述多个相关的概念或项目。

• And we die, we don't have the same right

  ➔ 由并列连词“and”连接的独立分句

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• What's it gonna take for someone to defend her?

  ➔ 非正式的将来时，使用 'gonna' + 动词原形

  ➔ 非正式的“将要”表达，使用“gonna” + 动词原形，表示未来意图或动作。

• The revolution is not televised

  ➔ 被动语态：“is not televised”

  ➔ 使用被动语态，强调“未被电视播出的”事实，暗示重要事件被隐藏或忽视。