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第16章 我是一块磐石(3)

不要怕黑暗,

因为风暴的尽头便是

一片金色的天空

和云雀甜美银铃般的歌声。

继续向前穿过大风,

继续向前穿过大雨,

尽管你的梦

会被风暴扰乱和吹散,

继续向前走,

心中满怀着希望向前走,

你将永远不会单独行走,

你将永远不会单独行走。

……

【语言点解析】

1.When you walk through a storm.

Walk through:pass through(a place or substance)on foot步行穿过;走过。

例如:Walking through the forest one day,they found a strange little hut that no one had ever seen before.有一天穿过森林时,他们发现一间没有人见过的奇特的简陋小屋。

2.Hold your head up high 昂头。

And don’t be afraid of the dark.

be afraid(of)=fear.害怕在口语中,我们更常用be afraid.

例如:Don’t be afraid.不要害怕。

Are you afraid of the dark?你怕黑吗?

3.For at the end of the storm is a golden sky and the sweet sliver song of a dark.

这是一个倒装句。正常顺序是A golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark is at the end of the storm.

主语“a golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark”太长,最好用倒装句。在描述性的句子里常用这类倒装句。

例如:Down came the rain.下雨了。

Round the corner walked a large policeman.从角落走过来一个高大的警察。

Under the table was lying a half-conscious young man.在桌子下面躺着一个半昏迷的年轻人。

4.Though your dreams be tossed and blown.

=The storm of life will toss your dreams and blow them away.尽管你的梦会被风暴扰乱和吹散。

A Girl Worth Fighting for Introduction

According to Disney.Mulanincorrectly believes that her parents are not proud of her.How can she ever achieve respect?Her sick father is then called on to fight against the invading Huns.Mulan secretly cuts her hair,puts on her armor,takes her sword and leaves home.She will replace her father by pretending to be her father’s nonexistent son.Greatly upset and worried,Mulan’s many ghostly ancestors decide to send the small magical dragon named Mushu to help her.

Mushu,also has a problem with respect.How can he earn the respect of Mulan’s ancestors?Can the little dragon assist Mulan during military training and in battle?Mushu even tries to show honor to Mulan by respectfully declaring,PRIVATE“TYPE=PICT;ALT=Mushu”“You Da Man,well...sort of”.“Da Man”means “The Man”or “respected tough man and leader”.But Mulan doesn’t want to be a“tough man”,she,just wants respect for being the person she is.Mushu tries her best to help her to accomplish this.

Again,in this next song from Disney,there is the question of love.Is love a confusing question,because no one ever seems to be able to promise when it will appear,how long it will stay,or if we will even know it when it invites a pen is into a vagina or other bodily orifice?Is it pure love,temporary lust,or the confusing normal phenomena of some crazy combination of both?

Mulan,pretending to be man,has joined the Chinese army.One evening,tired of dirt from her army training,she enters a lake to take a bath.To Mulan’s nervous surprise,her warrior friends appear and joyously splash into join her!Mushu provides a diversion,so that the naked Mulan can escape the lake with the secret of her true sex still intact.

A potential romantic and sexual problem arises.Mulan is falling in love with her commander,Captain Li Shang.The commander,unaware that Mulan is a woman,remains oblivious to her concerned interest.

As she and her soldier friends march off to fight the invaders,they sing about“A Girl Worth Fighting For”.Love is especially desirable for those who go out to face death.Bravery is found in singing of love,even while you fear that you will never have the opportunity to find love.Mulan uses this song as a chance to advocate for “a girl who has a brain and always speaks her mind...”

But her plea for acceptance as a person is not even noticed by her companions.To them,she is a man.A man has choices.A woman is a woman,with minimal options.A woman should know her restricted place in society and not deviate from is.

Such a narrow behavioral prescription does not fit young Mulan.She has other ideas,and she wisely chooses to put them into practice.

Would Mulan,with her many strengths,be readily accepted as she is by America’s first woman Astronaut,Sally Ride?Is Mulan,both the woman of Chinese myth and the character created by Disney,a modern woman?Can you easily envision Mulanas a spaceship pilot?Are women like Mulan always far ahead of the thinking of their male contemporaries?

How careful is Mulan in making important choices?Is it likely that she would have a dozen lovers before getting married?If she lived today,would she only have lovers,and never get married?Does marriage decrease or increase your range of choices?Why do you want to get married?

People react differently to similar situations for many various reasons.Mulan,who wants acceptance as person,is in sexual incognito amongst a large group of newly trained soldiers that will soon meet a rapacious enemy.Is this a good sit uation to be in?Doeslife sometimes present a limited range of options?Within the context that you live in,do you almost always try to make the best decision that you can?

Is it ironic that Mulan is now in the uncomfortable position of choosing to actlike she accepts the male chauvinism of her comrades?Will this diminish her future chances of being accepted as a woman?

A Girl Worth Fighting For

Words by David Zippel

Music by Matthew Wilder

Vocals by Jerry Tondo,Gedde Watanabe,

Harvey Fierstein and James Hong

For a long time we’ve been marching off to battle.

In our thundering herd,

We feel a lot like cattle.

Like the pounding beat,

Our aching feet aren’t easy to ignore.

Hey,think of instead,a girl worth fighting for.

Huh?

That’s what I said,

A girl worth fighting for.

I want her paler than the moon,

With eyes that shine like stars.

My girl will marvel at my strength,

Adore my battle scars.

I couldn’t care less what she’ll wear,

Or what she looks like.

It all depends on what she cooks like.

Beef,pork,chicken...

Bet the local girls thought you were quite the charmer,

And I’ll bet the ladies love a man in armor...

You can guess what we

Have missed the most since

We went off to war...

What do we want?

A girl worth fighting for...

My girl will think I have no faults,

That I’m a major find...

Uh-How about a girl who’s got a brain and

Always speaks her mind?

Nah!My manly ways and turn of phrase

Are sure to thrill her.

He thinks he’s such a lady-killer.

I’ve got a girl back home who’s unlike any other...

Yeah,the only girl who’d love him

Is his mother...

But when we come home in victory,

They’ll line up at the door...

What do we want?

A girl worth fighting for!

A girl worth fighting!

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