2015/09/06

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig 去市場、去市場,買隻大肥豬


Journeys Through Bookland 原文連結




To market, to market, to buy a fat pig;
   Home again, home again, dancing a jig.
Ride to the market to buy a fat hog
   Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.


去市場,去市場,買隻大肥豬,
回到家,回到家,輕快地跳舞。
騎著馬,去市場,買隻大肥豬,
回到家,回到家,踢踏踢地跳。


Jig: 輕快的舞蹈,鄉村舞步
hog: 食用肉豬 (pig, hog, swine 的差別, 可參考 這篇 )
jiggety : 像跳舞似的
jog: (v.t.)輕輕地搖晃、觸碰、推,推著移動 (v.i.) 持續穩定地移動、慢跑


pig/hog 押韻,
jig / jiggety-jog 押韻






Jig 舞



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