传说宙斯将所有人的灵魂分成两半，从此人们都在以爱为名寻找另一半自己, 今天要为大家发送的歌曲就叫做《Half of My Heart》。欢迎收听今天的《听歌学英语》，我是主播小C姐。很喜欢村上春树的一句话：“不必纠结当下，也不必担忧未来，人生没有无用的经历，所以我们一起走，天一定会亮”。在这首歌创作出来的时候，著名歌手泰勒·斯威夫特的另一半是John Mayer。在2009年末，泰勒与歌手约翰·梅尔交往，2010年分手。泰勒非常好听的那首《Dear John》就是写给前任约翰·梅尔的，而他们合作的这首《Half of My Heart》非常好听。

专辑： Ultimate: Love

歌手：John Mayer/ Taylor Swift

主播抖音：198211980 (小C姐)

主播微信公众号：小C微英语

I was born in the arms of imaginary friends

我出生在虚假的朋友的怀抱中

Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I've been

自由游荡，四海为家

Then you come crashing in, like the realest thing

你闯入我生活，像最真切的事实

Trying my best to understand all that your love can bring

我尽力了解你的爱带来的一切

Oh half of my heart's got a grip on the situation

哦，我一半真心沉迷在这情境

Half of my heart takes time

我一半真心抓紧时间(去爱你)

Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you

我一半真心保持冷静告诉你

That I can't keep loving you

我不能永远爱你

Oh, with half of my heart

哦，和我一半的心

I was made to believe I'd never love somebody else

我曾经相信我不会爱上任何人

I made a plan, stay the man who can only love himself

我计划，当一个只爱自己的人

Lonely was the song I sang, 'til the day you came

孤独是我唱的歌，直到你到来的那天

Showing me a better way and all that my love can bring

给我一条更好的路，和我的爱带来的一切

Oh half of my heart's got a grip on the situation

哦，我一半真心沉迷在这情境

Half of my heart takes time

我一半真心抓紧时间(去爱你)

Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you

我一半真心保持冷静告诉你

That I can't keep loving you

我不能永远爱你

Oh, with half of my heart

哦，和我一半的心

Wth half of my heart

和我一半的心

Your faith is strong

你的信念强大

But I can only fall short for so long

但我只能做这么多

Time will hold, later on

时间会说明，稍后

You will hate that I never gave more to you than half of my heart

你会恨我没给你更多，只有一半真心

But I can't stop loving you (I can't stop loving you

霉~)但我不能停止爱你

I can't stop loving you (I can't stop loving you

霉~)我不能停止爱你

I can't stop loving you (I can't stop loving you) with half of my...

我不能停止爱你

Half of my heart

我一半的心

Half of my heart

我一半的心

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination

我一半心里有个美妙的幻想

Half of my heart's got you

我另一半心里有你

Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you

我一半的心想告诉你

That half of my heart won't do

另一半却不会这样

Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding to a bride with a paper ring

我一半心不情愿与戴纸戒指的新娘结婚

And half of my heart is the part of a man who's never truly loved anything

另一半不会爱上任何事

Half of my heart Half of my heart

我一半的心我一半的心

Half of my heart Half of my heart

我一半的心我一半的心

Half of my heart Half of my heart

我一半的心我一半的心

歌词贡献者：魋魋魋魋

翻译贡献者：魋魋魋魋

主播抖音：198211980 (小C姐)

主播微信公众号：小C微英语

【讲解歌词段】

I was born in the arms of imaginary friends

我出生在虚假的朋友的怀抱中

Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I've been

自由游荡，四海为家

Then you come crashing in, like the realest thing

你闯入我生活，像最真切的事实

Trying my best to understand all that your love can bring

我尽力了解你的爱带来的一切

【歌词中的英语】

Imaginary [ɪ'mædʒɪneri] adj. 想象的；虚构的

All the characters in this book are imaginary.

这本书中的人物都是虚构的。

imagine [ɪ'mædʒɪn] vt. 想像；设想；料想；猜想；认为 vi. 想像

It is hard to imagine the scale of the universe.

很难想像宇宙有多大。

roam [roʊm] ·v. 漫游；闲逛；徜徉

I like to roam around the fields.

我喜欢在田野中漫步。

Make out of和make from都有“由...做成”的意思，make out of强调的是制成品的内容是来自原料，make from强调从成品看不出原料。

That lamp is made out of an old bottle.那座台灯由一个旧瓶子做成。

Paper is made from trees.纸张是用树木制造出来的。(纸的原材料看不出来是树木)

歌词是说made a home out of everywhere I've been，用我去过的地方来做成家——四海为家。

crash in·闯入，涌入

crash [kræʃ] v. 撞击；坠毁；发出巨响；崩溃；破产；<俚>宿夜n. 轰隆声；猛撞；崩溃；暴跌；垮台；粗布

He crashed his car into a wall.

他的汽车撞到了墙上。

What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?

你输错了什么使系统崩溃了?

The stock market crash ruined many people.

股票市场的崩溃使很多人破产。

Can I crash with you for tonight?

今晚能在你这里借宿吗?

The building fell with a crash as loud as thunder.

建筑物轰隆一声倒塌了，声如雷鸣。

主播抖音：198211980 (小C姐)

主播微信公众号：小C微英语