Everyday English每日會話:Pop Singer 流行歌手

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    Bobby: Do you prefer music for your feet or music for your head?
    Kelly: I like both but at different times.
    Kelly: I like dance music in the morning but songs with nice lyrics at night.
    Bobby: We are the same then. I love to put some loud funky music on in the morning as I am getting ready for work.
    Kelly: And at night I like to sing along with my favorite love songs.
    Bobby: Music really does have the power to alter your moods then?
    Kelly: It sure does! Music can make me melancholy or ecstatic!
    Bobby: I hope that you listened to music that makes you ecstatic before work and not songs that made you sad.
    Kelly: My job makes me sad anyway!
    鮑比:你喜歡舞曲還是抒情歌曲?
    凱麗:我都喜歡只是時間不同。
    凱麗:我喜歡早晨聽舞曲,晚上聽詞曲優(yōu)美的歌兒。
    鮑比:那么我們倆一樣。我喜歡在早晨準(zhǔn)備上班的時候大聲放一些節(jié)奏強(qiáng)烈的音樂。
    凱麗:而晚上的時候我喜歡跟唱我最喜歡的愛情歌曲。
    鮑比:這么說音樂確實能改變你的情緒了?
    剴麗:沒錯!音樂能讓我變得傷感或者興奮!
    鮑比:我希望你在上班前能聽一些讓你興奮的音樂,而不是讓你傷感的歌。
    凱麗:可我的工作讓我很不開心!
    NEW WORDS(生詞)
    1) Lyrics: the words of a song
    歌詞
    My memory is not good so I prefer songs with simple words.
    我的記憶不是很好,所以我喜歡歌詞簡單的歌。
    2) Mood: the way you feel
    心情
    Some days I am in a good mood but on other days my mood is so bad that even my friends run away.
    有的日子我心情很好,可其他日子我心情糟糕得連我的朋友都躲開了。
    3) Melancholy: feeling very sad
    傷感的
    When I feel melancholy, I get some chocolate and curl up in bed alone.
    心情不好的時候我就去拿一些巧克力然后一個人呆在床上。
    4) Ecstatic: feeling very very happy
    感覺很非常非常高興
    I was ecstatic when I heard that I had won a scholarship to study music.
    聽到我獲得了學(xué)習(xí)音樂的獎學(xué)金我萬分雀躍。
    Dialogue(對話)
    Tina: Jessie! Have you seen the video for Kylie Minogue's new song?
    Jessie: I think so. Why do you ask?
    Tina: I am worried that if my boyfriend sees it, he will fall in love with her.
    Jessie: Do you trust your boyfriend?
    Tina: I do, but he gets infatuations for singers so easily.
    Jessie: What is infatuation?
    Tina: It's like love at first sight.
    Jessie: I think the only person he is infatuated with is you!
    Tina: I hope so but just to be sure, I am going to hide the remote control for the TV!
    蒂娜:杰茜!你看過剴麗·米諾格新歌的錄影帶嗎?
    杰茜:看過,為什么問這個?
    蒂娜:我擔(dān)心如果我的男朋友看到,他會愛上她的。
    杰茜:你信任你的男朋友嗎?
    蒂娜:信任,可是他太容易迷戀上歌星。
    杰茜:什么是迷戀?
    蒂娜:就像是一見鐘情。
    杰茜:我想他唯一迷戀的人是你。
    蒂娜:希望如此,可為了安全起見我要把電視遙控器藏起來。