Eddie Vedder is revealing the meaning behind "Wreckage" from Pearl Jam's newest album Dark Matter.
艾迪·维达揭示了Pearl Jam最新专辑《暗物质》中“Wreckage”背后的含义。
In an interview with The Times UK, the musician spoke about how Pearl Jam has evolved throughout the past three decades. When it comes to their current record, he said the group found inspiration from an unexpected figure — former President Donald Trump.
在接受英国《泰晤士报》采访时，这位音乐家谈到了Pearl Jam在过去三十年中的演变。当谈到他们目前的记录时，他说他们从一个意想不到的人物那里得到了灵感——前总统唐纳德·特朗普。
“There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is true,” Vedder, 59, said. “Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy.”
59岁的维达说，“在美国，有一个人还在说他没有输掉选举，人们正在回响和放大这一信息，就好像这是真的一样。”“特朗普很绝望。我认为没有哪位候选人比他更迫切地想要赢得选举，只是为了让自己不进监狱，避免破产。”
The song — by Vedder and his bandmates Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready — is about not allowing the idea of winning to cloud your judgement, Fedder revealed.
这首歌是由维达和他的乐队成员杰夫·阿门特、斯通·戈萨德和迈克·麦克格雷迪共同创作的，费德透露，这首歌是关于不要让胜利的想法蒙蔽你的判断力。
In the lyrics, “This game of winner takes all / And all means nothing left / Spoils go the victor / And the other left for dead,” the band is singing about how being the last one standing doesn’t always mean there is a reward waiting.
在歌词中，“这个游戏的赢家拿走所有/所有意味着什么都没有剩下/战利品是胜利者/而另一个留下死亡，”乐队唱的是如何成为最后一个站着的人并不总是意味着有奖励等待。
The songwriter compared the track to Americans who root for Trump without thinking about the harm of the division he causes in the country.
这位作曲家将这首歌比作支持特朗普的美国人，而没有考虑他在这个国家造成的分裂的危害。
“It is all on the line, and he’s out there playing the victim — ‘at least they’re doing this to me, because if not they would be doing it to you’ — but you haven’t falsified your tax records,” Vedder explained. “You don’t have classified information in your basement."
维达解释说:“这一切都很危险，他在那里扮演着受害者的角色——‘至少他们这样对我，因为如果不是这样，他们也会这样对你’——但是你没有伪造你的税务记录。”“你的地下室里没有机密信息。”
He added: “So the song is saying, let’s not be driven apart by one person, especially not a person without any worthy causes.”
他补充说:“所以这首歌是在说，让我们不要被一个人分开，尤其是一个没有任何正当理由的人。”
艾迪·维达揭示了Pearl Jam最新专辑《暗物质》中“Wreckage”背后的含义。
In an interview with The Times UK, the musician spoke about how Pearl Jam has evolved throughout the past three decades. When it comes to their current record, he said the group found inspiration from an unexpected figure — former President Donald Trump.
在接受英国《泰晤士报》采访时，这位音乐家谈到了Pearl Jam在过去三十年中的演变。当谈到他们目前的记录时，他说他们从一个意想不到的人物那里得到了灵感——前总统唐纳德·特朗普。
“There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is true,” Vedder, 59, said. “Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy.”
59岁的维达说，“在美国，有一个人还在说他没有输掉选举，人们正在回响和放大这一信息，就好像这是真的一样。”“特朗普很绝望。我认为没有哪位候选人比他更迫切地想要赢得选举，只是为了让自己不进监狱，避免破产。”
The song — by Vedder and his bandmates Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready — is about not allowing the idea of winning to cloud your judgement, Fedder revealed.
这首歌是由维达和他的乐队成员杰夫·阿门特、斯通·戈萨德和迈克·麦克格雷迪共同创作的，费德透露，这首歌是关于不要让胜利的想法蒙蔽你的判断力。
In the lyrics, “This game of winner takes all / And all means nothing left / Spoils go the victor / And the other left for dead,” the band is singing about how being the last one standing doesn’t always mean there is a reward waiting.
在歌词中，“这个游戏的赢家拿走所有/所有意味着什么都没有剩下/战利品是胜利者/而另一个留下死亡，”乐队唱的是如何成为最后一个站着的人并不总是意味着有奖励等待。
The songwriter compared the track to Americans who root for Trump without thinking about the harm of the division he causes in the country.
这位作曲家将这首歌比作支持特朗普的美国人，而没有考虑他在这个国家造成的分裂的危害。
“It is all on the line, and he’s out there playing the victim — ‘at least they’re doing this to me, because if not they would be doing it to you’ — but you haven’t falsified your tax records,” Vedder explained. “You don’t have classified information in your basement."
维达解释说:“这一切都很危险，他在那里扮演着受害者的角色——‘至少他们这样对我，因为如果不是这样，他们也会这样对你’——但是你没有伪造你的税务记录。”“你的地下室里没有机密信息。”
He added: “So the song is saying, let’s not be driven apart by one person, especially not a person without any worthy causes.”
他补充说:“所以这首歌是在说，让我们不要被一个人分开，尤其是一个没有任何正当理由的人。”
