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　歌手簡介：了解“Not ready to make nice”的契機所在
　

　Lyrics

Not ready to make nice    by Dixie Chicks

Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting.

I'm through withdoubt,
There's nothing left for me to figure out. 
I've paid a price,
And I'll keep paying.

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready toback down,
I'm still mad as hell,
And I don't have time,
To go round and round and round.
It's too late to make it right.
I probably wouldn't if I could,
Cause I'm mad as hell,
Can't bring myself to do what it is,
You think I should.

I know you said,
Why can't you just get over it.
It turned my whole world around,
And I kind of like it.

I made my bed, and I sleep like a baby,
With no regrets and I don't mind saying,
It's a sad sad story,
When a mother will teach her daughter,
That she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
And how in the world,
Can the words that I said,
Send somebody so over the edge,
That they'd write me a letter,
Saying that I better shut up and sing,
Or my life will be over.

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell,
And I don't have time,
To go round and round and round.
It's too late to make it right.
I probably wouldn't if I could,
Cause I'm mad as hell,
Can't bring myself to do what it is,
You think I should.

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell,
And I don't have time,
To go round and round and round.
It's too late to make it right.
I probably wouldn't if I could,
Cause I'm mad as hell,
Can't bring myself to do what it is,
You think I should.

What it is,
You think I should.

Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting.

　Words and phrases

1. Dixie Chicks：美國鄉村女子樂隊“南方小雞”，又稱“狄克西女子合唱團”。

美國俚語中，“chick”表示“少女或少婦”，由此，“Dixie Chicks”有時也被稱為“南方妞兒”。

“Dixie”常用來指代美國南部各州，因19世紀末一首頗為流行的歌曲“I wish I was in Dixie”被大眾廣泛接受。詞源上，有觀點認為，dixie源于法語詞“dix”（10）。此外，新奧爾良地方銀行發行的10美元鈔票上也曾一度出現過“dix”字樣。

2. be through with：結束、與…不再有聯系

都說現在分手率、離婚率奇高，短語“be through with”這時似乎也可大派用場，如：I'm through with him.（我已經同他分手了。）