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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour was one of the most successful of all time. 講解

泰勒·斯威夫特的时代巡演是史上最成功的巡演之一。

There's no doubt that our Queen Tay Tay is on top of the world. 講解

毫无疑问，我们的女王霉霉正处于世界之巅。

Even if you don't listen to her songs, 語法

即使你不听她的歌，

you've definitely heard them.

你也绝对听过。

Even if you think you haven't,

哪怕你觉得自己没听过，

you have. 語法

其实你也听过。

Look, we all know our Queen writes great songs about boys and heartbreak.

听着，我们都知道我们的女王擅长写关于男孩和心碎的好歌。

But she also writes great songs about her relationship with the media

但她也写了很多关于她与媒体关系的极好的歌，

and her reputation, 文化背景

还有关于她的名誉的，

which coincidentally is the name of the album

这恰好也是这张专辑的名字，

our first song today comes from.

也就是我们今天讲的第一首歌出处。

I'm going to explain some of my favorite Taylor Swift lyrics

我将解释一些我最喜欢的泰勒·斯威夫特的歌词，

that are about her reputation and her relationship with the press. 用詞

这些歌词是关于她的名誉以及她与媒体的关系的。

Lyric number one today is

今天的第一句歌词是

Look What You Made Me Do,

“看看你逼我做了什么”（Look What You Made Me Do），

Look What You Made Me Do,

“看看你逼我做了什么”，

Look What You Made Me.

“看看你把我逼成了什么样”。

The lyrics seem quite simple,

这句歌词看似很简单，

but they're not.

但其实不然。

Look what you made me do 語氣意圖

“看看你逼我做了什么”（Look what you made me do）

implies that she did something

暗示了她做了一些

she didn't want to.

她不想做的事情。

Look what you made me shows that 語法

“看看你把我逼成了什么样”（Look what you made me）表明

she turned into something else, 短語動詞

她变成了另一种样子，

like she stopped trusting people as much. 語法

比如她不再像以前那样信任别人了。

The simple addition of omitting or adding

仅仅是省略或加上

just that one word do

“do”这一个词，

changes the meaning of the sentence completely.

句子的意思就完全改变了。

The play on words is brilliant 習語

这种文字游戏非常绝妙，

and so very catchy.

而且非常洗脑。

Of course.

当然了。

Lyric number two,

第二句歌词，

You need to calm down. 短語動詞

“你需要冷静点”（You need to calm down）。

You're being too loud. 語法

“你太吵了”（You're being too loud）。

This song was written about the fight she had with the rapper

这首歌写的是她和说唱歌手

Kanye West and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.

坎耶·韦斯特（Kanye West）及其前妻金·卡戴珊（Kim Kardashian）的纠纷。

When the media responded to how she talked about that

当媒体对她谈论此事的方式做出反应，

and said that she was being too much, 用詞

说她做得太过分了，

she was being too loud

她太吵了，

and they told her to calm down.

然后他们叫她冷静点。

Calm down means to relax

Calm down 的意思是放松，

or be less angry about the situation.

或者对当下情况不要那么生气。

The being too loud part could be taken figuratively or literally. 用詞

being too loud 这一部分可以从字面上理解，也可以作比喻。

Literally, you're being too loud,

字面上来说，你太吵了，

you're making too much noise

你制造了太多噪音；

or figuratively, like I said before,

而作比喻的话，就像我之前说的，

you're being too much, too extra. 用詞

你戏太多了，太过分了。

Too loud is often used against members of the LGBTQ+ community 語氣意圖

Too loud 经常被用来攻击 LGBTQ+ 群体成员，

and, in fact,

事实上，

Taylor references GLAAD, 文化背景

泰勒在这首歌中提到了 GLAAD（同性恋者反诋毁联盟），

a society that fights for LGBTQ+ rights

一个为 LGBTQ+ 权利而战的组织，

in this song

就在这首歌里，

and she has the cast of Queer Eye in the video.

并且请了《粉雄救兵》（Queer Eye）的卡司出演了这首歌的 MV。

So, this song became somewhat of an anti-hate anthem. 用詞

所以，这首歌在某种程度上变成了一首反仇恨颂歌。

What an icon! 語法

真是个偶像！

Lyric number three is one of the first songs that made me pay attention to Taylor.

第三句歌词出自最早让我开始关注泰勒的歌曲之一。

Shake it off, 短語動詞

“把它甩掉”（Shake it off），

shake it off.

“把它甩掉”。

Here again,

在这里，

she's talking about her relationship with the media

她再次谈论了自己与媒体的关系，

and about how the media loves to criticize her,

以及媒体如何喜欢批评她，

but she's not going to let it bother her. 語法

但她不会让这些烦扰到自己。

She's going to forget about it and continue with her life.

她会把这些抛在脑后，继续自己的生活。

The final lyric we'll talk about today is

我们今天最后要讨论的一句歌词是

New money, 用詞

“暴发户”，

suit and tie, 習語

“西装革履”，

I can read you like a magazine. 習語

“我看透你就像看本杂志那么简单”。

Ain't it funny, 用詞

“好不好笑”，

rumors fly, 短語搭配

“流言四起”，

and I know you heard about me.

“我也知道你听说过我”。

Sing with me.

跟我一起唱。

New money, suit and tie refers to superficial material things 短語搭配

New money（暴发户）, suit and tie（西装革履）指的是肤浅的物质层面，

because the press say that her relationships have no depth. 習語

因为媒体说她的感情关系没有深度。

They're just superficial.

它们只是很肤浅的。

So, she's responding to that

所以，她正在对此做出回应，

when she says,

当她说，

I can read you like a magazine,

“我看透你就像看本杂志那么简单”（I can read you like a magazine），

she's directly referring to a form of media here,

她在这里直接提到了一种媒体形式，

which is clever.

这一点非常巧妙。

But she's also talking about the fact that

但她同时也表达了这样一个事实：

she can read her potential lover.

她能看透她潜在的爱人。

Like, she can just look at that person

也就是说，她只需看着那个人，

and know what they're thinking

就能知道他们在想什么，

or know how they're feeling.

或者知道他们感觉如何。

Ain't it funny,

Ain't it funny（好不好笑），

rumors fly.

rumors fly（流言四起）。

Ain't here is like a spoken word of isn't 文化背景

Ain't 在这里就像是 isn't 的口语表达，

and it comes from AAVE,

它源自非裔美国人白话英语（AAVE）。

African American Vernacular English.

即非裔美国人白话英语。

And it's in a lot of songs

它出现在很多歌曲中，

and Taylor's are no exception. 短語搭配

泰勒的歌也不例外。

Rumors fly is a strong collocation

Rumors fly（流言四起）是一个固定的搭配，

about how news, especially gossip or rumors,

指的是消息，特别是八卦或谣言，

get told again and again. 語法

被反复传播。

And that's why she says,

这就是为什么她说，

I know you've heard about me 短語搭配

“我知道你听说过我”（I know you've heard about me），

because Taylor is often the topic of gossip columns. 用詞

因为泰勒经常成为八卦专栏的话题。

Many Swifties believe that because Travis Kelce is her 13th boyfriend, 文化背景

许多斯威夫特粉丝（Swifties）相信，因为特拉维斯·凯尔斯（Travis Kelce）是她的第13任男友，

there are no more blank spaces. 文化背景

已经没有空白格（blank spaces）了。

So, she'd have no more names to write

也就是说，她再也没有名字要写进歌里了，

as in he's endgame 講解

因为他就是最终归宿（endgame）。

So, did I leave out any of your favorite Taylor lyrics? 短語動詞

所以，我有漏掉你最喜欢的泰勒的哪句歌词吗？

Write them in the comments 短語搭配

在评论区写下来吧，

and we'll have a sing-along later on. 短語搭配

我们稍后一起来大合唱。