1·Can white girls sing the blues?
白人女孩会唱蓝调吗？
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Do you have the right to sing the Blues?
你有唱布鲁斯的权力吗？
3·Some husbands always sing the blues about how much housework their wives leave with them.
一些丈夫总是抱怨老婆留给他们的家务活太多。
4·I just spent two hours listening to Bill sing the blues about his girl friend leaving him for some other guy.
我花了两个小时倾听拜耳诉说他女朋友为了另一个家伙而离开他的痛苦的事情。
5·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。
6·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。
7·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。
8·The blues comes from African songs that people used to sing when they worked and during festivals.
布鲁斯来源于非洲的劳动号子和节庆歌唱。
9·The blues stated when the black musicians in the South began to sing about their hard times, which made feel blue.
南方的黑人音乐家开始吟唱他们的艰难的岁月，使他们使他们感到居丧。这便开始了一种伤感的民歌。