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一首《Falling Slowly》，一个街头歌手的一生：Glen Hansard 车祸离世
One Song, 'Falling Slowly,' and a Street Singer's Whole Life: Glen Hansard Dies in a Crash
An intermediate Chinese listening story on Glen Hansard: the Dublin busker who won an Oscar for 'Falling Slowly,' beloved for his sincerity and generosity, killed in a motorcycle crash at 56.
This is an HSK 5-6 Chinese listening episode that runs about 1 minute. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 10 key vocabulary words such as 普通、改变、简单 and walks through 3 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
Some people can climb into countless hearts with a single song.
Glen Hansard was one of them.
This Irish musician was, in his youth, just an ordinary busker on the streets of Dublin, guitar in hand, singing to the passers-by.
The band he formed, The Frames, simmered quietly for years, yet always had a core of devoted fans.
What truly changed everything was that small 2007 film, Once.
The film tells how a street performer and an immigrant girl slowly grow close through music, one song at a time.
Its song "Falling Slowly," simple in melody yet so heavy with feeling it moved people to tears, ultimately won him the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
To go from busking on the street to standing on the Oscar stage is, in itself, a moving story.
And those who knew him say that more than his talent, it was his sincerity and generosity that moved people.
But in the early morning of July 29th, on the western edge of Dublin, a motorcycle crash took this fifty-six-year-old man away.
As the news spread, the whole music world sank into grief; Bruce Springsteen said his "heart was broken," that he had lost a dear friend.
Death can take a person, but it cannot take the melody they leave behind.
As long as someone, deep in the night, still softly hums that line from "Falling Slowly," Glen Hansard has never truly left.
一个普通的卖唱者 = an ordinary busker.
真正改变一切的 = what truly changed everything.
旋律很简单 = the melody is simple.
就从未真正离开 = he has never truly left.
认识他的人都说 = those who knew him say.
这位爱尔兰音乐人 = this Irish musician.
都柏林街头 = the streets of Dublin.
奥斯卡最佳原创歌曲奖 = the Oscar for Best Original Song.
带不走他留下的旋律 = can't take away the melody he left.
一场摩托车车祸 = a motorcycle crash.
* beyond level超纲词
真正……的，是……
真正 X 的，是 Y = "what truly X is Y".
真正改变一切的，是二零零七年那部小电影《Once》。
比起 A，更……的，是 B
比起 A，更 X 的是 B = "compared with A, what is more X is B".
比起才华，更打动人的，是他的真诚与慷慨。
……可以……，却……不……
X 可以 A，却 B 不 A = a contrast: "X can A, yet cannot A (something else)".
死亡可以带走一个人，却带不走他留下的旋律。
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