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省略：

省略是一个很常用的语法手段，它能有效地节约用词，使行文结构紧凑，表达流畅，并且能凸显句子的新信息，密切上下句之间的联系。

一般来说，省略经常用于相同的句子结构中，被省略的部分必须明确无歧义，能在上下文找到，或者可以根据语法结构的短缺和容易恢复，而且被省略部分填补之后的句子应该是合乎语法的。在英文歌曲中，基本上大多数歌曲都会或多或少有一句省略。省略在英文歌词中应用广泛的最大一点原因也是与倒装有些相似，就是为了配合旋律，可以把歌词该得唱起来朗朗上口，由于一般都是先有曲子，然后才请填词者填上词，所以词随曲动的要求，就使省略在一定程度上构成了歌曲体系中的重要成员。

一段文字中有一段省略在英文歌词中是俯首皆是的。其中有单纯的只省略主要语的，椰油在并列结构中的省略，也有状语与介词的省略，更有省略主语和谓语的。

1. Think you own whatever land you land on

Earth is just a dead thing you can claim

But I know every rock and tree and creature

Has a life,has a spirit,has a name

Think the only people who are people

Are the people who look and think like you

But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger

You learn things you never knew

You never knew                   (选自 Color Of The Wind)

分析：Think you own whatever land you land on.这句话就省略了一个主语you ,全句应为You think you own whatever land you land on.

2．Ocean apart day after day

And I slowly go insane

I hear your voice on the line

But it doesn't stop the pain

If I see you next to never

How can we say forever

Wherever you go

Whatever you do

I will be right here waiting for you

Whatever it takes

Or how my heart breaks

 will be right here waiting for you     （选自Right Here Waiting）

分析：I will be right here waiting for you.这句话是歌眼。全句原文应该是I will be right here and be waiting for you.此句中省略了and be ,这样就很简单了，很符合歌词的本身了。

3. I remember the night

And the Tennessee waltz

Now I know just how much I have lost

Yes, I lost my little darling

The night they were playing

The beautiful Tennessee waltz         (选自 The Tennessee Waltz)

分析：Yes, I lost my little darling the night they were playing the beautiful Tennessee waltz.这句全句应为Yes, I lost my little darling, at the night when they were playing the beautiful Tennessee waltz. the night they were playing…即at the night when they were Playing…，但在习惯用法上，介词at和关系副词when常被省略，因此定冠词加上时间名词可作连接词使用，可称这种情况为合成连词。

4．Says she's had enough of me

I've had enough of her too

I might as well go on and set her free, she's already turned me loose

No fault, no blame, nobody done no wrong

That's just the way it sometimes goes

Sometimes two people just don't get along, it's time to hit the road

（选自 Easy Come,Easy Go）

分析：Says she's had enough of me, I've had enough of her too. 。这句话中有一个很特殊的用法，这句话是省略，动词提前的一种省略。全句应该是She says she’s had enough for me,and I think I’ve had enough of her too.

在英文歌词中要是有一大段的省略，那种歌需要很高的文化造诣才能写得出来，而且还不能晦理得让人难以理解。而下面一段歌词中的省略就用得非常到位，而且省略的都恰到好处，令人叹服。

举例：

5. Hello darkness my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains with the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walk alone

Narrow streets of cobble stone

Beneath the hallo of a street lamp

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbled by the flash of a neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked night I saw ten thousand people may be more

People talking without speaking hearing without listening

People writing songs that voices never share

And no one dare disturb the sound of silence

"Fool" said I "you do not know

Silence like a cancer grows

Hear my words that I might teach you

Take my arms that I might reach you

But my words like silent rain-drops fell

And echo-ed in the wells of silence

And the people bow and prayed

to the neon God they made

And the sign flash out its warning

In the words that it was forming

And the sings said "The words of the prophers are

written the subway walls and tenement halls"

And whispered in the sounds of silence  

(选自 The Sound Of Silence)

分析：这段文字中共有四处省略。In restless dreams I walk alone , narrow streets of cobble stone .这句话不是很长，但装语比较多，正常的全句应为In restless dreams I walk alone on the narrow streets of cobble stone . Silence like a cancer grows.这句话省略了系动词be和定语从句关系代词that ,应该是Silence is like a cancer that grows. Hear my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you.而这句话完整应是Hear my words so that I might reach you,take my arms so that I might reach you. And the sings said "The words of the prophers are written the subway walls and tenement halls" And whispered in the sounds of silence.这句话补充完整就是The words of the prophers are written on the subway wall and tenement halls and are whispered in the sounds of silence.