I Can't Breathe – 英语/中文 双语歌词

• 作者: H.E.R.

歌词与翻译

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[中文]

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发动一场战争，同时喊着“和平”

所有的腐败、不公、相同的罪行

做或不做，总是一个问题

我们死去，我们没有同样的权利

对一个投降的人来说，枪算得了什么？

到底要怎么做，才能有人站出来为她辩护？

如果我们都同意人人平等

那为什么看不到什么是邪恶？

我无法呼吸

你正在夺走我的生命

我无法呼吸

有人会为我而战吗？

...

当我们不彼此相爱时，我们如何面对？

希望和同情又在哪里？（是的）

我们怎么用肤色判断？

这结构本身就是要让我们成敌人（是的）

祈祷变革，因为痛苦让你变温柔

你拒记的所有名字

他们曾是兄弟、朋友

或是哭泣的母亲的儿子

我无法呼吸

你正在夺走我的生命

我无法呼吸

有人会为我而战吗？（是的）

...

有人会为我而战吗？

...

(为了我)

时刻都在艰难

心灵、身体、人权的破坏

被剥夺血统，被鞭打，被拘禁

这就是美國的自豪

在为种族灭绝辩护

浪漫化夺取与流血

让美国成为自由之地

用命夺取黑人的生命，向自由的土地

带枪去和平争取民权

你对无辜生命的枪击变得麻木

因为这就是我们最初的起点

这些伤痕比子弹更深

你那自以为是的手，永远触及不到

一代又一代的痛苦、恐惧与焦虑

平等就是没有直觉地行走

说保护者和杀手穿着同一制服

革命不是电视直播

媒介认知被强行灌输给封闭的心灵

所以新闻里的谎言

以及代代相传的优越，都在你的无知和特权里

我们呼吸一样的空气，流着一样的血

但我们看的却不一样

要感恩我们敬畏上帝

因为我们不寻求复仇

我们追求正义，我们已超越恐惧

我们吃腻了你的屁话

因为你认为你的所谓“黑人朋友”

证明了你的觉醒，抹去了你的种族偏见

那样不舒服的对话

对你的信托基金钱包来说太难承受

承受我家族树上悬挂的奇异果

因为你的厚颜无耻

说所有人在上帝眼中是平等的

却因肤色贬低一个人

别说你看不到色彩

当你看见我们，看到我们

我无法呼吸

...

[英语]

Nah

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

All the corruption, injustice, the same crimes

Always a problem if we do or don't fight

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

What is a gun to a man that surrenders?

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

If we all agree that we're equal as people

Then why can't we see what is evil?

I can't breathe

You're taking my life from me

I can't breathe

Will anyone fight for me?

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

Where is the hope and the empathy? (Yeah)

How do we judge off the color?

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

Prayin' for change 'cause the pain makes you tender

All of the names you refuse to remember

Was somebody's brother, friend

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

I can't breathe

You're taking my life from me

I can't breathe

Will anyone fight for me? (Yeah)

Will anyone fight for me?

(For me)

Trying times all the time

Destruction of minds, bodies, and human rights

Stripped of bloodlines, whipped and confined

This is the American pride

It's justifying a genocide

Romanticizing the theft and bloodshed

That made America the land of the free

To take a black life, land of the free

To bring a gun to a peaceful fight for civil rights

You are desensitized to pulling triggers on innocent lives

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

These wounds sink deeper than the bullet

Your entitled hands could ever reach

Generations and generations of pain, fear, and anxiety

Equality is walking without intuition

Saying the protector and the killer is wearing the same uniform

The revolution is not televised

Media perception is forced down the throats of closed minds

So it's lies in the headlines

And generations of supremacy resulting in your ignorant, privileged eyes

We breathe the same and we bleed the same

But still, we don't see the same

Be thankful we are God-fearing

Because we do not seek revenge

We seek justice, we are past fear

We are fed up eating your shit

Because you think your so-called "Black friend"

Validates your wokeness and erases your racism

That kind of uncomfortable conversation

Is too hard for your trust-fund pockets to swallow

To swallow the strange fruit hanging from my family tree

Because of your audacity

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

But disparage a man based on the color of his skin

Do not say you do not see color

When you see us, see us

We can't breathe

重点词汇

词汇	含义
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

重点语法结构

• 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。