Best four years：泰勒．斯威夫特催泪新单《Ronan》背后的故事

Taylor Swift broke down as she performed her chart-topping new single 'Ronan' on Friday night.
泰勒·斯威夫特周五晚演唱其榜首新单曲《Ronan》时情绪接近崩溃。

But even more emotional was the mother of the beautiful, blue-eyed four-year-old whose heart-breaking battle with cancer inspired the star's hit song.
但心情更为激动的是歌里所唱的小罗南的母亲。罗南是一个有着漂亮蓝色眼睛的四岁小男孩，他与癌症病魔抗争的故事令人心碎，也因为他才有了泰勒的这首金曲。

'I don't think there was a dry eye in the house. I'm surprised I wasn't on the floor bawling,' Maya Thompson said after watching the performance during a Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon.
“屋里的每一个人都热泪盈眶，我很惊讶自己没有坐到地上放声大哭。” 玛雅-汤普森刚看完《站起来对抗癌症》公益募捐节目里的表演，这样说道。

Swift's lyrics were based entirely on a blog Thompson, 33, starting writing in August 2010, when her son Ronan was diagnosed with neuroblastoma.
斯威夫特的这首歌曲是基于33岁的汤普森从10年8月开始记录的博客而创作的，她的儿子罗南在那时被诊断出了脑瘤。

Her bubbly, wide-eyed little boy fought the illness for nine months before passing away in May 2011, just three days before his fourth birthday.
这个讨人喜欢的大眼男孩与病魔抗争了九个月，2011年五月份离开了人世，去世时再过三天就是他四岁的生日。

Thompson used the blog as a way to work through her grief at the loss of her child, something she describes as 'the worst thing that could happen to a family.'
汤普森希望能通过博客来安抚她失去儿子的悲痛，她在博客中描述这是“这个家里从未有过的悲剧”。

The mother, who has nine-year-old twin boys and another baby due in April, met Swift in October 2011 when she was invited to the singer's concert in Phoenix.
目前有孕在身的汤普森（宝宝明年4月出生）还有一对九岁大的双胞胎儿子，2011年10月份时她曾受邀参加斯威夫特菲在尼克斯的演唱会，在那里她见到了这位歌手。

'She had been reading my blog for a while and heard that Ronan had passed away,' Thompson told AZcentral.com. 'And she was just devastated by it.'
“她一直都在看我的博客，并且听说了罗南去世的消息。” 汤普森这样告诉AZcentral网站的记者，“她悲痛欲绝。”

But Thompson was unaware quite how much Ronan's story had affected the singer until she received a surprise voice mail from her.
但在收到泰勒的语音邮件之前，汤普森都没有意识到罗南的故事竟会那样触动这位歌手。

'My calmness soon turned to complete and utter frozen shock when these words came out of her mouth. 'I wrote a song for Ronan,' she wrote on her blog.
她在博客上写到：“ 泰勒跟我说：‘我要为罗南写首歌’，当从她口中听到这句话时，我完全惊呆了，根本无法平静。”