为了成功，我们需要把信仰坚持下去

In order to succeed, we need to stick to our beliefs

为了成功，我们需要把信仰坚持下去

It's midnight on a Tuesday in Richmond, Va. At Sticky Rice, a sushi joint, the crowd is already at fire-code capacity.

这是弗吉尼亚州里士满一个周二的午夜，在一家寿司店里，人群已经达到了爆满的程度。

At around 12:30 a.m., a set of famous piano chords begins to play, and the place explodes. Friends stand together on tables; the people stuck in line outside press against the windows.

大约凌晨12:30。在美国，一组著名的钢琴和弦开始演奏，这个地方爆炸了。朋友们一起站在桌子上;人们在外面排着队，紧紧地挤在窗户上。

When they're done, Gangisetty, who is Indian American, says she loves the song because it's something she can enjoy with her immigrant parents.

当他们唱完后，身为印度裔美国人的Gangisetty说她喜欢这首歌，因为这是她可以和她作为移民的父母一起享受的东西。

"This came out right before my parents came to this country," she says. "There aren't too many cultural things that we can relate on."

“就在我父母来到这个国家之前，这首歌就出版了，”她说。“我们没有太多文化上的东西可以联系起来。”

"It's like the 'Itsy Bitsy Spider' of, like, middle school," Malone chimes in. "You have to know it. Everyone hates to love it."

“它就像中学里的‘小蜘蛛’，”马龙插话道。“你必须知道。每个人都讨厌爱它。”

Thirty-eight years after it debuted on the album Escape, "Don't Stop Believin'" is the go-to anthem for perseverance that has itself persevered, successfully riding wave after new wave of media.

在专辑《逃离》推出38年后，《不要停止信仰》成为了代表坚韧不拔的精神的圣歌，成功驾驭了一波又一波的媒体浪潮。

Though born in the era of rock radio and cassette mixtapes, the song found its real glory at the dawn of binge TV and the smartphone, and it has woven its way into weddings, bar mitzvahs, graduations, the 2005 World Series, The Sopranos and Glee.

尽管这首歌诞生于摇滚电台和盒式磁带混音的时代，但它真正的辉煌是在狂欢电视和智能手机的黎明到来之际出现的，它已经融入了婚礼、成人礼、毕业典礼、2005年世界职业棒球大赛、女高音和欢乐合唱团。

Its fate was hardly a given. Critic Deborah Frost didn't even mention "Don't Stop Believin” by name in her October 1981 review of Escape in Rolling Stone, which gave the album two out of five stars. "

它的命运几乎是注定的。评论家黛博拉·弗罗斯特在1981年10月的滚石专辑《逃离》的评论中甚至没有提到《不要停止信仰》的名字，这让专辑获得了五星中的两颗星。

If so, my guess is that they'll soon glow out of it." They didn't: According to Nielsen Music, "Don't Stop Believin'" holds the record as the most downloaded 20th-century song, and it has nearly 700 million streams on Spotify, at last count.

如果是这样，我猜他们很快就会兴奋起来。”他们没有:根据尼尔森音乐公司的数据，《不要停止信仰》是20世纪下载量最多的歌曲，据最新统计，它在Spotify上有近7亿次播放。

The story of the song itself begins with Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain. In the late 1970s, he was a struggling rocker who was ready to quit SoCal and move back to Chicago. Cain says everything had been going wrong: He and his girlfriend had split up, and he'd had to pay a costly vet bill to save his dog after it was hit by a car.

这首歌的故事开始于旅途键盘手乔纳森·凯恩。在20世纪70年代末，他是一个苦苦挣扎的摇滚歌手，准备离开南加州回到芝加哥。凯恩说，一切都出了问题:他和女朋友分手了，他的狗被车撞了，为了救它，他不得不支付昂贵的费用。

"I called my father for some money," he says. "I said, 'Dad, I'm out of cash here. ... Should I come home? ' And he told me, 'We've always had a vision, son. Don't stop believing.' I had a lyric book next to me, and I wrote it down."

他说:“我打电话向父亲要钱。”“我说，‘爸爸，我没钱了。我应该回家吗?’他告诉我，‘儿子，我们一直都有一个梦想。不要停止信仰。’我旁边有一本歌词书，我把它写了下来。”

Things started looking up for the musician after that.

从那以后，这位音乐家的情况开始好转。

In 1981, when the band was recording Escape, lead singer Steve Perry asked Cain to come up with a final track. Cain still had his dad's advice and from it drew inspiration.

1981年，乐队录制《逃离》时，主唱史蒂夫·佩里请凯恩做最后一首歌。凯恩仍然保留着他父亲的建议，并从中获得灵感。

The characters introduced in the first verse, a small-town girl and a South Detroit city boy, are familiar by now — enough so that it's rarely addressed that there is no such neighborhood as South Detroit. As for the singer in the smoky room, that tableau evokes the desperation Cain says he felt at the Sunset Strip's Whisky a Go Go during his rough Los Angeles days.

第一节中介绍的人物，一个小镇女孩和一个南底特律的城市男孩，现在已经很熟悉了——很少有人提及南底特律这样的社区。至于那个在烟雾缭绕的房间里演唱的歌手，那个画面唤起了凯恩说他在洛杉矶艰难的日子里，在日落大道的威士忌酒吧a Go Go中感受到的绝望。

"I really believe this song is about wanting to make it," he says, "Where you think you're stuck in life — that you're able to get out, the same way I got out of Chicago."

“我真的相信这首歌是关于想要成功，”他说，“在你认为你被生活困住的地方——你能够摆脱，就像我摆脱芝加哥一样。”