A Midsummer Night's Blog 仲夏夜随想
A Midsummer Night's Blog
仲夏夜随想
（修正版）
I'm writing you on a summer afternoon in Nashville.
这是一个夏日的午后，我身处Nashville，给你们写这篇日志。
All the idealistic markers of a perfect day are presenting themselves right now in this moment.
完美的一天的所有理想的标志此刻都呈现在我的面前
I mean, we're talking chirping birds, blinding sunshine, a just-the-right-amount breeze..
我指的是，那些叽叽喳喳地歌唱着的小鸟，炫目的阳光，那适宜的微风。
There's the distant sound of power washing from someone else's deck and my feet are up on the patio table.
还有那从远处传来的不知谁家阳台的洗衣机在运转的声音，以及此刻我正在我的院子里，惬意地把我的脚伸到了桌子上。
I just ate a really awesome sandwich. Such a simple, good day. And so I just wanted to say hi.
刚刚我还吃了一个非常美味的三文治。多么简单而又美好的一天啊。于是我想（通过这篇日志）和你们道声好。
I go back on the road tonight and this weekend we'll play in Greensboro, Knoxville, and Louisville.
今天晚上，我又要重新回到巡演的旅途中去了。这个周末，我们会在格林斯博罗，诺克斯维尔和路易维尔开演唱会。
And I guess I should just tell you up front that playing shows on this tour is the best time I've ever had onstage.
我想我应该提前告知你们，在这次的巡演中为大家演唱是我在舞台上的最美好的时光。
The crowds we've been playing for have been so unbelievable..
那些来看我们演出的歌迷实在是太给力了。
The kind of crowds that jump up and down the entire show, making our view from the stage look like a giant ocean of dancing, jumping people.
他们在整场演出中欢呼雀跃，一刻都没有停下。当我们从舞台上看下去时，就像看到了舞动的人海。
These are the kinds of crowds that sing the words louder and more passionately than I ever could've imagined.
他们跟着我一起，大声地唱着，比我想象的要热情百倍。
And to have a show that includes ballerinas and fireworks and entire scenery changes... It’s thrilling for me.
想到这是一场有芭蕾舞演员，烟火和全场布景变换的演出，我心里激动不已。
My band and I have already come away with memories to last a lifetime, and it's not even halfway done yet!
在这个巡演甚至还没有进行到一半的时候，我和我的乐队走过一个又一个城市，已经为我们留下许许多多可以铭记一生的美好回忆。
The other night, we were playing our first of two shows at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
不久前的那个晚上，我们在麻省福克斯波罗的吉列体育场的举行我们在那里的两场演唱会的第一场
I'm all the way at the end of the stadium, playing "Fearless",
当时我正从舞台一路走到场地的尽头处，演唱着Fearless这首歌，
and I swear as soon as I sang the words "With you I'd dance in a storm in my best dress, fearless"… I felt a drop of rain hit me.
我发誓这是真的，就在我唱着那句：“我穿着我最美的裙子，在雨中与你共舞”时，我感觉到一滴雨打在了我的身上。
Then there was another one, then there was another. And then it turned into an absolute downpour.
接着，一滴又一滴的雨飘落在我身上，然后雨越下越大，最终变成了倾盆大雨。
Everyone is soaking wet.
每一个人都被淋湿了。
And at this point in the show, about halfway through our set, this fear came over me that everyone was going to leave the concert.
那一刻，就在演唱会才进行了一半的时候，满满的担忧爬上了我的心头，我害怕着因为这样的坏天气，大家都会提早离开。
I tried to push it way back into the back of my mind and just kept playing, and to my surprise, the strangest thing happened.
我努力地把这个想法从我脑子里赶出去，继续我的演唱。出乎我意料的是，最神奇的事情发生了。
No one left.
即使在这样的天气下，也没有一个人选择了离开。
Instead, this ocean of people in front of us just started dancing even more, screaming even louder…
相反，我们面前的人海舞动地比之前更加热烈，欢呼尖叫得比以往都要大声。
And that night I actually got to dance in a storm with them. In my best dress. I'll never forget it.
事实上，那一个晚上，我就如歌词写的那样，穿着我最好的裙子，在雨中与他们共舞。我永远不会忘记这样的经历。
Sometimes I get scared that there's got to be some balance to the way things work in the universe-- like you pay for good days by then having bad days, you pay for joy with pain..
有时，我恐惧于宇宙万物的发生可能会保持着一种平衡——就像你现在过着好日子，而作为代价，坏日子可能紧随而来。你此刻得到了快乐，作为代价的则是接下来的痛苦。
Like if you have the most perfect week ever, watch out! It's about to get really awful!
就像是如果你度过了最美好的时光，小心！这可能意味着霉运即将到来。
Some sort of minor or major tragedy is bound to strike!
一些或大或小的悲剧即将发生在你身上！
I hope that's not the way it all goes down. I really hope not.
我真的希望事情不会按照这种规律发生，真的。
Because this has been a really beautiful summer so far.
因为这真的是我长这么大经历过的最美好的夏天（我不希望因此，接下来会发生不好的事情）。
（天啊，因为现在过得很幸福，而感到惶恐，这孩子也太悲观了
吧。别想太多，一切都会好好的）
Lately, I've been writing a LOT.
最近这段时间，我写了很多很多的歌。
Like, all of a sudden, everything I've wanted to say, express, or just let out for the past several months has just recently become a song.
就像是突然之间，我所想说的，我所想表达的，或者只是过去的这几个月的经历，最近都在我的笔下变成了一首又一首的歌。
I'm really excited about that.
对此我感到无比兴奋。
It's a freeing feeling when all of a sudden one day, you're able to verbalize exactly how you feel in a verse, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus pattern.
那是一种很无拘无束的感觉，在某一天，某一刻，你能将你当时的想法放进歌词,旋律里，用文字确切地记录着，在歌声中表达出来。
Hey so… thank you so much for the Teen Choice Award nominations!! Six whole nominations! Thank you.
嘿，对了，十分感谢你们的支持，让我获得了今年青少年选择奖的六个提名！谢谢你们。
I'll be there this year and it will be my first time attending the TCA's!!! Thank you!
今年我会去到颁奖礼的现场，这是我第一次参加青少年选择奖的颁奖礼啊！！！谢谢你们为此的努力!
I want to thank you for the happiness I've felt so far this summer.
我还要谢谢你们，让我在这个夏天体验到如此多的幸福与美好。
I've learned to never take happiness for granted.
我一直都知道，我不应该将我此时得到的幸福快乐看作是理所当然的。
It's the most precious, rare feeling.
那是这个世界上最珍贵最稀有的东西。
This summer, for me, it comes from you...
而这个夏天，于我而言，这份幸福来自你们。
driving to the shows with "Speak Now" painted on your car windows or simply singing along when "Story of Us" comes on the radio.
幸福来自于你们开着车来看我的演唱会，车窗上还写这Speak Now的字样，来自当电台播着The Story of Us这首歌，你们跟着音乐轻声哼唱。
It comes from you, standing up in the last rows or the front ones, having taken the time to know every word I'll sing that night…
幸福来自于你们，因为无论你是站在演唱会的最前一排还是最后一排，都愿意花时间去记住我在这个晚上将演唱的那些歌的歌词。
Oh, and it also comes from an entire stadium that not only stuck with me through the rain, but celebrated it.
噢，幸福还来自于当整个体育场里的人和我一齐困在雨中，没有怨言，却为此欢喜。
Mostly it's from all the times you've made me feel like we're in this together.
更多的，幸福来自于你们让我时时刻刻感受到我们同在一起。
I hope you have a wonderful July 4th weekend and I hope you have a bunch of simply wonderful days this summer.
最后，我要祝愿你们有一个愉快的独立日假期，也祝愿你们在这个夏天，能度过许许多多的简单而又美好的日子。
Taylor