3 Dinkytown

Chapter 3 Dinkytown The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis was Bob's ticket out of Hibbing. He was not much interested in college. But Abe and Beatty expected him to earn a degree and then return home. Perhaps he'd go into business with his father. That's what they hoped, at least. Bob had scouted out the university long before he enrolled. During his senior year in high school, he had talked his dad into buying him a used Ford. He would make the three-hour drive to

位于明尼阿波利斯的明尼苏达大学是鲍勃离开希宾的门票。 他对上大学不太感兴趣。 但亚伯和比蒂希望他拿到学位后回家。 也许他会和他父亲一起做生意。 至少这是他们所希望的。 鲍勃早在入学前就对这所大学进行了考察。 在高中最后一年，他说服父亲给他买了一辆二手福特。 他要开三个小时的车去

Minneapolis and spend long weekends hanging out in a neighborhood near the university called Dinkytown.

然后在大学附近一个叫丁基镇的社区度过漫长的周末。

During his first year of college, he spent more time at a coffeehouse called The 10 O'Clock Scholar than in classrooms. Playing and singing folk songs was not a popular pastime in 1959. Most college kids liked smooth, bland singers like Pat Boone or groups like the Lettermen. The cooler students liked jazz. But there were only a few people in Dinkytown who were interested in folk music. One was "Spider" John Koerner. He and Bob became friends. They both played

大学一年级时，他在一家名为“10点钟学者”（The 10 O'Clock Scholar）的咖啡馆待的时间比在教室里待的时间还多。 在1959年，演奏和演唱民歌并不是一种流行的消遣方式。 大多数大学生喜欢圆滑、平淡的歌手，比如帕特·布恩（Pat Boone），或者莱特曼（Lettermen）这样的乐队。 比较酷的学生喜欢爵士乐。 但在丁基镇只有少数人对民间音乐感兴趣。 其中一位是“蜘蛛”约翰·科纳。 他和鲍勃成了朋友。 他们都玩

guitar and were trying to write songs. Koerner thought that Bob had "a pretty voice," much different from the way he sounded later on. FOLK SONGS FOLK SONGS ARE THE AGE-OLD SONGS THAT PEOPLE FROM A CERTAIN AREA LEARN AS CHILDREN. THE SONGS

吉他和写歌。 Koerner认为Bob的“声音很好听”，和他后来说话的方式大不相同。 民歌是来自某一地区的人们小时候学习的古老歌曲。 这些歌。

ARE PASSED DOWN IN FAMILIES. THE LYRICS MAY CHANGE OVER TIME. EVERY COUNTRY HAS ITS OWN FOLK MUSIC. MEXICAN FOLK SONGS ARE VERY DIFFERENT FROM RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS. A LOT OF AMERICAN FOLK SONGS COME FROM WEST VIRGINIA AND THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS. PEOPLE FROM IRELAND AND ENGLAND SETTLED THIS PART OF AMERICA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES. THAT'S WHY MANY FOLK SONGS WERE ORIGINALLY ENGLISH OR IRISH SONGS. THEY OFTEN TELL A SAD STORY, MAYBE ABOUT HAVING YOUR HEART BROKEN OR BEING WRONGLY ACCUSED OF A CRIME. DURING THE LATE 1950S AND EARLY 1960S, FOLK MUSIC BECAME VERY POPULAR IN THE UNITED STATES. YOUNG MUSICIANS LIKE BOB DYLAN STARTED WRITING NEW FOLK SONGS. THEY OFTEN HAD STRONG MESSAGES ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE.

都是家族相传的。 歌词可能会随着时间的推移而改变。 每个国家都有自己的民间音乐。 墨西哥民歌与俄罗斯民歌有很大的不同。 许多美国民歌来自西弗吉尼亚州和阿巴拉契亚山脉。 来自爱尔兰和英国的人在十八世纪和十九世纪在美洲的这个地区定居下来。 这就是为什么许多民歌最初是英国或爱尔兰歌曲。 他们经常讲述一个悲伤的故事，也许是关于你的心碎或被错误地指控犯罪。 在20世纪50年代末和60年代初，民间音乐在美国变得非常流行。 像鲍勃·迪伦这样的年轻音乐家开始创作新的民谣。 他们经常有关于民权和正义的强烈信息。

Bob was always reinventing his life story, telling his new friends wild tales. Often, one story contradicted another. After a while, folks in Dinkytown didn't take any of them seriously. Soon Bob completely stopped going to class. He spent all of his time on his music. Bob was not a great guitar player yet. "Plenty of other kids were as good," a friend recalled. But "if you didn't see him for two weeks it would seem as if he'd made three years progress."

鲍勃总是重新编造他的人生故事，给他的新朋友讲一些荒诞的故事。 通常，一个故事与另一个故事相矛盾。 过了一段时间，丁基镇的人就不把他们当回事了。 不久，鲍勃完全不去上课了。 他把所有的时间都花在了音乐上。 鲍勃还不是一个伟大的吉他手。 “很多其他孩子也这么优秀，”一位朋友回忆说。 但“如果你两周没见到他，就好像他进步了三年。”