"Hello， can you hear me?" sang Adele to the world. And the world answered: yes， and we're watching you too. Many many times. 阿黛尔向宇宙唱响“你好，能听到我讲话吗？”而宇宙给她的回话是：是的，咱们听到了，况兼咱们也看着你呢，看了好多好多遍。

Adele's video for new single Hello has broken Taylor's Swift's records for the most views on Vevo in 24 hours. The clip accumulated 27.7m views in its first day online， beating the 20.1m views that Swift's Bad Blood and its star-studded cast of celebrities attracted in its first 24 hours. 在有名视频在线平台Vevo上，阿黛尔全新单曲《Hello》的视频在上线24小时内的首日浏览量达2770万次，这一获利烦嚣了之前由泰勒·斯威夫特保抓的24小时内单日浏览量的记录。此前的记录保抓者斯威夫特群星云集的单曲《Bad Blood》首播24小时内的浏览总量为2010万次。

Teased with a 30-second clip in the ad break of Sunday's UK X Factor， Hello went viral when the full video was released on Friday， along with details of the singer's forthcoming third album 25， which she says will be a "a make up album". 当地技艺周日（10月18日），英国版《X Factor》节目在告白时段插播了30秒《Hello》的预报片，这支单曲的好意思满版于周五发布并火了起来，同期公布的还有阿黛尔行将刊行的第三张专辑 《25》的一些细节，阿黛尔说该专辑是单曲的一个补充。

The video was filmed in Montreal and directed by French Canadian film-maker Xavier Dolan， who said there was an instant connection when he first met the singer in London. 该视频在蒙特利尔拍摄，由法裔加拿大导演哈维尔·多兰（Xavier Dolan）执导。多兰示意，第一次在伦敦见到阿黛尔时，就有种似曾认知的嗅觉。

"We chatted about our lives and our loves and our romances，" Dolan told Entertainment Weekly. "It was so much about who we were. We had so much in common. Basically， all of her songs are revolving around the theme of unrequited love and so are my movies." 多兰在领受《文娱周刊》的采访时说：“咱们聊起咱们的生涯、爱情和罗曼史，咱们谈了好多对于咱们是谁的话题。咱们有好多一样之处。阿黛尔统共歌曲基本上王人以单恋为主题，而我拍的影片亦然如斯。”

Adele has yet to beat Swift's other Vevo record， the 1.2bn views the Blank Space video has accumulated to make it the service's all-time most watched video， although Hello has already clocked up an admirable 82m views and counting. 不外，阿黛尔尚未烦嚣斯威夫特在Vevo上其他视频浏览量方面的记录。天然现在《Hello》的浏览量已高达8200万次且还在不断高潮，斯威夫特的单曲《Blank Space》依然Vevo平台上有史以来点击率最高的视频，其浏览量高达12亿。

The single is also set to break sales records， shifting 165，000 copies in three days including 156，000 downloads in the UK and 450，000 US downloads in 48 hours. 该单曲还有望烦嚣销量记录。在英国，《Hello》三日内销量就达16.5万张，其中包括网罗下载的15.6万次。而在好意思国，48小时内的下载量就达45万次。

Reviewing the song， Alexis Petridis wrote: "Adele sounds great: she sells the song without over-singing it， leaving the melismatic vocal fireworks to the inevitable spate of X Factor cover versions ... Hello underlines what we already know: [25] is clearly going to be enormous." 亚历克西斯·彼得里迪斯（Alexis Petridis卫报记者）在探讨此歌时写说念：“阿黛尔唱的太棒了：她为这首歌作念了宣传单又没一下子涌现太多， 她美丽无比的技俩唱腔留在无限尽的《X Factor》系列节指标开场版中……《Hello》再次解释了咱们已知的一件事：《25》这张专辑清亮会赢得深广的见效。

Adele will perform Hello on Saturday Night Live on 21 November， a day after the release of her album. 阿黛尔将在她的新专辑刊行后的那天，也便是11月21日作客《周六夜现场》（Saturday Night Live）。

Vocabulary

stud：嵌入、布满……

melismatic：花腔式的

英文起原：卫报

译者：张卉

审校&剪辑：丁一

视频起原：优酷三级片网站