诗歌的力量

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六分钟英语。

Six Minute English.

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你好。

Hello.

这里是 BBC 学习英语的《六分钟英语》。

This is six Minute English from BBC Learning English.

我是尼尔。

I'm Neil.

我是皮帕。

And I'm Pippa.

本期我们来聊聊诗歌。

In this episode, we're discussing poetry.

有些人觉得诗歌是上学时学了就忘的东西，但对另一些人来说，诗歌却成了生活中重要的一部分。

For some, poetry is what you study at school, then forget, while for others it becomes an important part of their life.

尼尔，你有没有读过或者写过诗？

Have you ever read or written any poetry, Neil?

我从学校毕业后就没再写过诗了。

Well, I haven't written any poetry since I was at school.

我很想多读点诗，但真的不太懂。

I would love to read more poetry, but I just don't get it really.

我觉得诗很难理解。

I find it difficult to understand.

听诗歌的一个好地方是开放麦之夜，这是一种现场活动，任何人都可以走上舞台朗读或吟诵诗歌。

A good place to hear poetry is an open mic night a live event where anyone is allowed to stand up on stage to sing or recite poems.

这里是BBC记者玛丽亚为BBC世界服务节目《改变世界的人》朗读她写的一首诗，主题是一位中风的朋友。

Here BBC reporter Maria recites her open mic poem about a friend who suffered a stroke for BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World.

这是一首诗。

This is a poem

我写这首诗是关于一位

I wrote it about a

我非常珍爱的朋友。

friend who I love dearly.

这首诗叫《中风》。

It's called stroke.

你醒着，却努力想认出眼前的人是谁。

You're awake and trying to grasp who it is.

我拉下口罩，露出嘴唇，你睁大眼睛，仔细端详我的脸。

I pull my mask past my lips and you study my face, eyes wide.

我有好多话想跟你说，我边说边陷进椅子里。

I have enough stuff to tell you, I say, sinking into a chair.

我直勾勾地盯着。

I stare.

有时候你去参加开放麦，别人说的那些话真的能触动你的灵魂。就算你那天心情不好，听完开放麦之后，感觉整个人都会好很多。

Sometimes if you go to an open mic night, people can really touch your soul with what they're saying and even if you're having a bad day, life can feel so much better after going to an open mic night.

对玛丽亚来说，诗歌有治愈情感的力量，能深深触动你的灵魂，也就是在情感或精神层面让你产生深刻的共鸣。

For Maria, poetry has the power to heal emotions and touch your soul meaning to affect you deeply on an emotional or spiritual level.

在这一集里，我们会听到更多关于诗歌积极力量的内容，和往常一样，我们还会学一些实用的新单词和短语。

In this episode, we'll hear more about the positive power of poetry And as usual, we'll learn some useful new words and phrases.

别忘了，你可以在我们的网站 bbclearningenglish.com 上找到所有词汇，还有测验和工作表。

And remember, you'll find all the vocabulary plus a quiz and worksheet on our website bbclearningenglish.com.

不过首先，我有个问题想问你，Pippa。

But first, I have a question for you, Pippa.

刚才你用了“诗歌的积极力量”这个短语，在一串词里重复了相同的开头字母 p 的发音。

Just now, you used the phrase the positive power of poetry, repeating the same initial p sound across a string of words.

这种手法在诗歌里很常见。

Doing this is a common feature of poetry.

那这叫什么名字呢？

But what's it called?

是 a) 元音押韵，b) 头韵，还是 c) 明喻？

Is it a) assonance b) alliteration or c) simile?

终于，我英语专业的底子能派上用场了，我觉得是 b) 头韵。

Finally, my English degree might come in handy and I'm going to say b) alliteration.

我们待会儿揭晓答案，希望你别太尴尬，皮帕。

Well, we'll find out at the end and I hope you don't get embarrassed, Pippa.

诗歌帮助玛丽亚走出了悲伤。

Now poetry helped Maria overcome sadness.

但这种治愈的力量，会不会也适用于其他方面呢？

But could its power to heal work in other areas too?

Hot Poets 这个团体正在帮助人们理解气候变化等全球性问题背后的科学原理。

Hot Poets is a group helping people understand the science behind global issues like climate change.

他们参加联合国气候大会这样的会议，聆听科学家们宣读论文。

They go to meetings like the UN Climate Conference and listen to scientific papers being presented.

然后他们会根据这些内容写一首诗，并在现场表演给观众听。

Then they write a poem about it all and perform that back to the audience.

以下是热诗社成员利夫·托克为BBC世界服务节目《人类修复世界》朗诵的诗作。

Here's hot poet Liv Talk reciting her poem to BBC World Service's People Fixing the World.

故事从一次海上冒险开始。

It starts with an adventure at sea.

这是一场蔚蓝色的悬疑大案，凶手不是鲸鱼，而是人类过度捕捞和大规模污染所酿成的灾难。

A big blue murder mystery where the killer is not the whale, but an epic humanity fail of overfishing and polluting at unimaginable scale.

利夫的这首诗源自一项关于生物多样性的研究。

Liv's poem is based on a study into biodiversity.

这是一项复杂的科研项目，很多人觉得难以理解。

It's a complex research project that many find hard to understand.

在这里，利夫与米拉·阿努比就BBC世界服务节目《人类修复世界》展开了讨论。

Here, Liv discusses this with Myra Anubi for BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World.

利夫，你其实点出了科学传播中存在的一个问题。

And Liv, I mean, so what you've identified is that there is issue around the communication of science.

确实如此。

Yes, a lot

很多专业术语普通人根本听不懂，科学内容也显得特别晦涩，让人一看就没了兴趣。

of this jargon is really hard to understand or a lot of the science is quite impenetrable to normal people, so it's instantly a turn off.

科学领域用了很多专业术语或技术词汇，跟日常用语差别很大。

Science uses lots of jargon specialist or technical vocabulary which is quite different from everyday language.

比如科学家会说‘降水’，而我们平时说话直接说‘下雨’就行了。

For example, a scientist might use the word precipitation, while in everyday English we would say rain.

专业术语让科学论文变得难以理解。

Jargon can make scientific papers impenetrable an adjective meaning impossible to understand.

更糟的是，它让科学变得让人反感，让人提不起兴趣。

And worse, it makes science a turn off something that people dislike or find uninteresting.

热诗人们试图改变这一切，用诗歌把复杂的环保理念变得通俗易懂。

Hot poets try to change all of that by making complex environmental ideas easy to understand through poetry.

这方法真有效，”环境科学家卡特·布鲁斯说，利维的诗正是基于她的研究，她正在接受BBC世界服务节目《改变世界的人》的米拉·阿努比的采访。

And it works, says Cat Bruce, the environmental scientist whose study Liv based her poem on, talking here with Myra Anubi for BBC World Services People Fixing the World.

对你来说，凯特，听到这首诗的时候，你有什么感受？毕竟你亲身体验过她所描述的一切。

What did it mean for you, Kat, hearing the poem, having actually experienced everything she's saying?

现在每次听到，我还是会起鸡皮疙瘩。

It still gives me goosebumps when I hear it now.

这正是我想说却一直找不到合适词句表达的一切。

I think it's everything that I wish I could say and put into words myself.

利维简直就是把我想说的全都说出来了。

I feel like Liv just, you know, has done that.

利维的诗让卡特起了鸡皮疙瘩，意思是她被深深触动，皮肤上的汗毛都竖了起来。

Liv's poem gave Cat goosebumps, meaning she was so emotionally affected that the hairs on her skin stood up making tiny bumps.

也许诗歌解决不了所有问题，但对卡特来说，它确实带来了积极的影响。

Maybe poetry can't fix everything, but for Cat, it's making an impact for good.

那么，尼尔，你刚才的问题答案是什么？

Now, what was the answer to your question, Neil?

皮帕，你刚才说得特别清楚，用一连串开头音相同的词，这叫头韵。

Well, you seemed very clear, Pippa, that when you use a string of words beginning with the same sound, it's called alliteration.

你说得完全对。

And you're absolutely right.

吓死我了。

Phew.

好，

Okay.

我们来回顾一下刚才学过的词汇，首先是‘开放麦之夜’，这是一种允许任何人上台表演诗歌或音乐的现场活动。

Let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt, starting with Open Mic Night a live event where anyone is allowed to perform poems or music on stage.

如果某件事触动了你的灵魂，那就是在情感或精神层面深深影响了你。

If something touches your soul, it affects you deeply on an emotional or spiritual level.

行话指的是某个专业领域或学科里专用的词语和表达。

Jargon means special words and phrases that are used in a particular profession or subject.

‘难以理解的’这个形容词，意思就是根本看不懂。

The adjective impenetrable means impossible to understand.

让人反感的事，就是那些人们不喜欢或觉得无聊的东西。

A turn off is something that people dislike or find uninteresting.

最后，如果你起鸡皮疙瘩，那是因为你感到冷、情绪受触动，或者害怕，皮肤上的汗毛会竖起来。

And finally, if you get goosebumps, the hairs on your skin stand up because you're cold, emotionally affected or afraid.

好了，我们这六分钟又到了，不过别忘了，我们网站 bbclearningenglish.com 上还有更多节目，以及本集的测验和练习题。

Once again, our six minutes are up, but remember, you'll find lots more episodes as well as a quiz and worksheet for this one on our website bbclearningenglish.com.

我们很快再见，现在先说再见了。

See you again soon, but for now, it's goodbye.

再见。

Goodbye.

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