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Sting Sings in the Holidays---- Veteran musician celebrates the winter season.
搖滾詩人斯汀的冬季狂想曲！
He is one of the world's most renowned singers and his career has spanned three decades. Sting recently spoke with our Shannon Cook about his winter-themed album.
CNN主播艾謝·南達爾：他是全球最知名的歌手，他的事業長達年之久。斯汀日前接受了夏儂·庫克的采訪，談論關于他的一張以冬天為主題的唱片。
SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT:Winter, it's a time that you revel in, isn't it.
CNN特派員夏儂·庫克：冬天，那是最讓你感到陶醉的季節，對吧？
STINC, SINGER AND MUSICIAN:I would say it's an undervalued season by most people because it's cold and uncomfortable. I think it's an important season for us because it's a time of reflection . It's the season of the imagination, of spirits and ghosts in the chimney and ghost stories and firesides and wanting to feel warm. And it's also very important psychologically because we need to reflect on the past so that we can move into the spring. Unless we reflect, we can't really go forwards.
歌手兼音樂人斯汀：我認為冬天的價值被大多數人低估了，因為冬天寒冷且不舒服我認為冬天對我們而言是個重要的季節，因為那是我們反思的時候冬天是個充滿想象的季節，想象煙囪咀的神靈、鬼魂，在壁爐邊聽鬼故事，并且希望能感受到溫暖。冬天在心理上也非常重要，因為我們必須要反省過去，好讓我們能走向春天。除非我們反省，否則就不能真的向前邁進。
SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT:Is your beard part of the wintry theme?
CNN特派員夏儂·庫克：您的胡子是否是冬天這個主題的一部分？
STINC, SINGER AND MUSICIAN:I had to grow a beard last November because I was in an opera with Elvis Costello, and I had to play a Greek. I had to play Dionysus, so I grew the beard and they made my hair dark. And I sort of kept it, and I kind of enjoy it, and then we started to record this album, and it seemed appropriate, and I’ve still got it and Trudie hasn't complained yet. I remind her of one of her dogs, she says, but, you know, she likes dogs, fortunately.
歌手兼音樂人斯汀：我去年11月開始就得開始留胡子，因為我要和埃爾維斯·卡斯提洛共同出演一部歌劇，我飾演一個希臘人、我耍扮演狄俄尼索斯，于是我留起了胡子，然后他們把我的頭發染黑。后來我就繼續留著胡子，而且還挺喜歡這樣的。接著我們就開始錄制這張唱片，感覺挺搭的，所以到現在還留著胡子，特魯迪（編注：Sting的妻子）到現在還沒抱怨過。她說，我讓她想起她的一只狗。不過幸好，她喜歡狗。
SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT:What kind of a dog?
CNN特派員夏儂·庫克：什么樣的狗？
STINC, SINGER AND MUSICIAN:She has Irish wolfhounds. They have the same kind of texture，We began recording last January in Tuscany. I have a home in Tuscany. I've lived there for 12 years now. When you say Tuscany, most people think, oh it's warm and it's hot and they grow grapes and everything, but in the winter, it's freezing. It's really very cold. And the album cover is photographed on my estate there, with all that snow and walking my dog. And so it was a very appropriate place to begin a winter album. And we all huddled around a kitchen table with the fire on and our coats and our scarves, and we started to explore these songs together. In that kind of weather, it kind of helps. It's that kind of method recording.
歌手兼音樂人斯汀：她有一只愛爾蘭獵狼犬。那種狗的毛和我的胡子質感一樣。我們去年1月在托斯卡尼開始錄音。我在托斯卡尼有個家，我在那兒已經住了12年。每當提到托斯卡尼時，大部分人都會以為那里很暖和、很熱，那里都在種葡萄等等，但是冬天時，那里卻是天寒地凍，真的很冷。唱片的封面就是在我的莊園拍攝的，有很多雪，而我在遛狗。所以那里是個非常適合開始制作冬天專輯的地方。我們所有人都圍著廚房的餐桌，屋里生著火，桌上還放著我們的大衣和圍巾，然后大家一起開始研究這些歌。那種天氣狀況其實還挺有幫助的。有點像是體驗式錄音。
SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT:In two years time, you'll be 60. How do you feel about that?
CNN特派員夏儂·庫克：兩年后您就要歲60了。對此您有何感想？
STINC, SINGER AND MUSICIAN:Well, I was, you know, 58 a week ago. I feel like I'm 14-and-a-half inside, and yet I have the memories of a 58-year-old man, and so I've the best of both worlds, you know. I have a certain sagacityi, a certain wisdom that comes with reaching this, you know, very august age, but also I feel very useful ir, myself, my physical self. Also mentally, I feel quite young but not immature, but just have a lot of energy. So it's good.
歌手兼音樂人斯汀：我一星期前剛滿58歲，我感覺自己才14歲半，但我卻擁有一個58歲的人的回憶，所以我擁有這兩個世界里的精華。我擁有某種程度的睿智，某種到了這個年紀而擁有的智慧，這個歲數讓人敬畏，但我覺得自己身體還很好。心理方面，我覺得我還很年輕，但并非不成熟，而是精力充沛。所以這樣很好。
SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT:Over the years as your musical style has evolved , we've seen you in The Police, we've seen you with pop, with jazz, a lute" album. Do you see how your audience changes?
CNN特派員夏儂·庫克：過去這些年來您的音樂風格有所改變，我們見過您在警察樂隊時的表現，聽過您演唱流行歌曲、爵士樂和一張魯特琴專輯。您認為您的聽眾變了嗎？
STINC, SINGER AND MUSICIAN:I don't think my audience changes. I think the audience has come to expect the unexpected. I think I never want them to second-guess what I'm going to do next. I have no idea what I'm ... even I don't know. I think they appreciate. that sense of, you know, "Well, what's he got this time?"
歌手兼音樂人斯汀：我不認為我的聽眾變了。我認為聽眾已經預期到一些意料之外的事。我從未讓他們去猜我接下來要做什么。我不知道我接下來要……連我自己都不知道。我認為他們會喜歡那種“他這次要拿什么東西出來？”的那種感覺。
