昂立外语【新概念培训】分享 creep这个小词,在新二Lesson27 A wet night中有这样一句话:
The boys felt tired so they put out the fire and crept into their tent.
孩子们感到困倦了,于是他们扑灭了篝火,钻进了帐篷。
在这里creep的意思是爬行,to move slowly with the body close to the ground,课文中,男孩子们经过了一系列的活动,put up their tent, cooked a meal, told stories and sang songs之后感到很疲惫,用creep这个动词形象生动地体现出了这一点,他们几乎是爬着进帐篷的。
照例,接下来要来了解在我们平时生活中出现的creep的其他用法咯~Taylor Swift是现在许多年轻人非常喜欢的乡村歌手,她的歌词往往通俗易懂又贴近生活,那Ruby最喜欢的她的一首歌是《Back to December》,在这首歌的歌词中也出现了creep这个词,让我们一起来看一下吧~
These days I haven't been sleeping
Staying up playing back myself leaving
When your birthday passed and I didn't call
And I think about summer, all the beautiful times
I watched you laughing from the passenger side
Realized that I loved you in the fall
And then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind
You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye
歌词向听众娓娓道来了女生对于美好恋情的无限回忆,以及对所爱之人的深切忏悔。把歌词fear crept into my mind中的crept说成是爬行显然并不很合适,在翻译的时候我们可以用拟人化的手法来说:恐惧悄然爬上我心头。Webster上有一条释义适用于在这里的creep所表示的意思,to enter or advance gradually so as to be almost unnoticed,在Ruby看来这可以理解为“逐渐蔓延,悄然滋生”。比如,当一个人说话的语气中渐有怒意,我们就可以说,A note of irritation crept into his voice。
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