這首英文老歌以前常聽
最近發現它的歌詞裡有一句用典句 If a face could launch a thousand ships
典故出自 史詩「特洛伊戰爭」,用來形容「海倫」Helen這位引起希臘聯軍與特洛伊十年戰爭的絕代美女。
這首名為「IF」的歌,是由麵包(Bread)合唱團所唱的。
If
歌詞
If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you,
You're all that's left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.
If a man could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away
La donna è mobile qual piuma al vento,
Muta d'accento e di pensiero.
Sempre un amabile leggiadro viso,
In pianto o in riso, è menzognero.
La donna è mobile qual piuma al vento,
Muta d'accento e di pensier , e di pensier ,
E... e di pensier .
È sempre misero chi a lei s'affida,
Chi le confida mal cauto il core!
Pur mai non sentesi felice appieno,
Chi su quel seno - non liba amore!
La donna è mobile qual piuma al vento,
Muta d'accento e di pensier, e di pensier,
E..........e di - pensier.
E di pensier.
E..........e di - pensier.
English Lyrics:Woman is flighty
Woman is flighty like a feather in the wind,
She changes her voice — and her mind.
Always sweet, pretty face,
In tears or in laughter, — she is always lying.
Woman is flighty like a feather in the wind,
She changes her voice — and her mind.
And her mind.
Always miserable is he who trusts her,
He who confides in her — his unwary heart!
Yet one never feels fully happy
Who on that bosom — does not drink love!
Woman is flighty like a feather in the wind,
She changes her voice — and her mind.
And her mind.
And her mind.
And her mind.