The memory has become a song I sing to myself when I have the blues, a dance I do to celebrate joy.

这份记忆慢慢变成了忧伤时唱歌自己的一首歌，快乐时跳起的一段舞蹈。

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I just spent two hours listening to Bill sing the blues about his girl friend leaving him for some other guy. I feel sorry for him but he ought to forget it: after all, it happened two years ago.

他刚花了整整两小时听Bill诉说女朋友怎么甩掉他跟了别人的伤心事。他当然为Bill感到难过，但是他觉得Bill该把这事丢在脑后了，因为这毕竟是两年前的往事了。

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The blues comes from African songs that people used to sing when they worked and during festivals .

布鲁斯音乐来源于非洲的歌曲，人们在劳动时和在节日期间常常唱这些歌曲。

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Although her father encouraged Koko to pursue gospel music, she would sneak out of the house, and sing the blues with her brothers accompanying her on homemade instruments.

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This is one of the main reasons why so many blacks bristle at the comparison of the two movements -- everybody wants to sing the blues, nobody wants to live them.

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Bessie Smith's version of St Louis Blues was even filmed in a kind of predecessor of today's music videos - she acts out the part of a woman knocked to the ground by a two-timing boyfriend, and then moves to a bar to sing the blues.

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And when I finished, he says to me, he says, 'My God, I ain't never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues before in my life.

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