Languages

    I've been using google's custom front page for 2 days. I added a column called "Word of the Day" from Dictionary.com. It really helps for people who dont treat English as mother language. Also, it triggers my interest upon English literature, or something in the same form as novels and the like. As for the sentence provided as the reference of the word of the day, I saw this.

    Outside the window, New Orleans . . . brooded in a faintly tarnished languor, like an aging yet still beautiful courtesan in a smokefilled room, avid yet weary too of ardent ways. -- Thomas S. Hines, William Faulkner and the Tangible Past
  
    And few words learned recently:
brood, tarnish, languor, courtesan, ardent, congenial, hedonism, exuberant, copious, clemency, sobriquet, epithet, amour, illicit, curator, omnivorous.

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (Poem by William Butler Yeats)

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

我把夢舖在你的腳下 (by 葉慈)

我深願能用我的衣服 鋪在你的腳下
可是我太窮 除了夢  一無所有
我把我的夢鋪在你的腳下
腳步請放輕 因為你踩的是 我的夢

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最近看到的一首詩，雖然我對葉慈的詩沒什麼印象，但是這首詩真的讓我產生深刻的印象~ 希望有空也拿他的詩出來看看，而不只之前常翻的Whitman or Tagore。

英文版的感覺比我查到的中文版好多了(我查到的中文版都只有翻第二段)。請重看英文版吧

    年輕的西班牙歌手Álex Ubago，是我最近發近的一個好聽的西文歌手。年紀僅大我兩歲，唱歌的風格我很喜歡，尤其是這首Sin Miedo A Nada(直翻：Without Fear For Anything)。
    歌詞我還沒花時間看懂。(單字懂太少了，很花時間查字典，而且我又把西文的動詞變化忘的一乾二淨..@@)改天在補上英文翻譯。超愛這首歌:)

Me muero por suplicarte que no te vayas, mi vida me muero por escucharte, 
decir las cosas que nunca digas
mas me callo y te marchas, mantengo la esperanza
de ser capaz algún día de no esconder las heridas que me duelen al pensar
que te voy queriendo cada día un poco más
¿Cuánto tiempo vamos a esperar?

    這是由出生於法國Corsica，年紀跟我相同的女歌手Alizée唱的一首Madonna的著名歌曲：La Isla Bonita (The Beautiful Island)。很喜歡這位女歌手的感覺，由於其他的歌都是法文的，只聽到這麼一首英文歌曲，就只能分享這首歌啦。可以在這裡找到這首歌的Music Video。
    聽法文歌曲又是跟常聽的英文、西文歌曲大不相同的感覺。實在很享受。現在這首是由法語歌手唱英文歌，夾雜一兩句西文，感覺就像西文歌手唱英文歌一般別有感覺。沒有純正的美國口音，聽起來很棒。喜歡Alizée詮釋的La Isla Bonita。

(Written by Madonna, Pat Leonard, and Bruce Gaitsch)

Como puede ser verdad

Last night I dreamt of San Pedro
Just like I'd never gone, I knew the song
A young girl with eyes like the desert
It all seems like yesterday, not far away

同樣由廣播聽到Juanes的歌，我真是喜歡西班牙文歌阿！花了半小時多才讀懂這歌詞，試譯如下..@@
常常讀西班牙文歌詞西文一定超強...什麼文法都用了，卻都是用常見字~

Para tu amor lo tengo todo (For your love I have everything)
Desde mi sangre hasta la esencia de mi ser (From my blood to the essense of my being)
Y para tu amor que es mi tesoro (and for your love which is my treasure)
Tengo mi vida toda entera a tus pies  (I have everything at your feet)

Y tengo también (And I also have)
Un corazón que se muere por dar amor (A heart which is dying to give you love)
Y que no conoce el fin (and which will not reach the end)
Un corazón que late por vos (a heart that beats for you)
Para tu amor no hay despedidas (For your love there is no goodbye )
Para tu amor yo solo tengo eternidad (For your love I just have eternity)