The Box

歌词

• The Box - John Denver (约翰·丹佛)
• Lyrics by：Kendrew Lascelles/Charles Stillwell
• Composed by：Kendrew Lascelles/Charles Stillwell
• Once upon a time in the land of Hushabye
• 从前在那安乐乡
• Around about the wondrous days of yore
• 昔日的美好时光
• I came across a sort of box
• 我偶然发现一个盒子
• Bound up with chains and locked with locks
• 被铁链缠绕 铜锁锁紧
• And labeled kindly do not touch it's war
• 贴心地附有标签“不要碰 这是战争”
• Decree was issued 'round about
• 到处都颁布了法令
• All with a flourish and a shout
• 所有人都欢呼雀跃
• And a gaily colored mascot tripping lightly on before
• 色彩鲜艳的吉祥物在前面欢快地跳跃
• Don't fiddle with this deadly box or break the chains or pick the locks
• 别摆弄这个致命的盒子 或者试图打破锁链
• And please don't ever play about with war
• 永远不要轻易挑起战争
• Well the children understood
• 孩子们都明白这道理
• Children happen to be good
• 孩子们都表现很好
• They were just as good around the time of yore
• 其实孩子们之前就表现很好
• They didn't try to pick the locks or break into that deadly box
• 他们没有试图撬锁或者打开致命的盒子
• They never tried to play about with war
• 他们从没有轻易挑起战争
• Mummies didn't either
• 母亲们也没有
• Sisters aunts grannies neither
• 所有家中的女眷都没有
• Cause they were quiet and sweet and pretty in those wondrous days of yore
• 因为昔日的美好时光里 她们都是安静 甜美又漂亮的
• Well very much the same as now not the ones to blame somehow
• 当然现在也是如此 她们不管怎样都不该被责备
• For opening up that deadly box of war
• 因为打开了致命的战争之盒的罪责
• But someone did
• 但有人这么做了
• Someone battered in the lid
• 有人猛击盒盖
• And spilled the insides out across the floor
• 将里面的东西洒向大地
• A sort of bouncy bumpy ball made up of guns
• 枪支 炮弹
• And flags and all the tears and horror
• 旗帜 泪水和恐惧
• And the death that goes with war
• 还有随战争而来的死亡
• It bounced right out
• 全都弹出来 布满人间
• And went bashing all about
• 到处乱撞
• And bumping into everything and stored
• 一处也不放过
• And what was sad
• 令人难过的是
• And most unfair is that it didn't really seem to care
• 最不公平的是似乎没有人在意
• Who much it bumped
• 撞到了谁
• Or why or what or for
• 或者说为什么 凭什么 怎么可以
• It bumped the children mainly
• 主要是撞到了孩子们
• And I'll tell you this quite plainly
• 我清楚地告诉你们
• It bumps them every day
• 那些孩子们每天都不能幸免
• And more and more
• 越来越多的孩子们
• And leaves them dead and burned and dying
• 无辜死去 化为灰烬 奄奄一息
• Thousands of them sick and crying
• 成千上万的孩子们被疾病困扰 哭声不断
• Cause when it bumps it's really very sore
• 因为一旦战争之盒被打开 它的危害是无穷的
• Now there's a way to stop the ball
• 现在有个办法阻止这一切
• It isn't difficult at all
• 事实上这并不难
• All it takes is wisdom
• 只需要智慧
• I'm absolutely sure that we could get it back into the box
• 我绝对相信我们有能力把这一切放回到盒子里
• And bind the chains and lock the locks
• 再一次用铁链铜锁封好
• No one seems to want to save the children any more
• 但似乎没有人想再救孩子们了
• Well that's the way it all appears
• 事情就是这样发生的
• Cause it's been bouncing 'round for years and years
• 因为战争已经肆虐了很久很久
• In spite of all the wisdom whiz since those wondrous days of yore
• 尽管自昔日的美好时光以来 有数不尽的能人异士
• And the time they came across the box
• 他们发现盒子的时候
• Bound up with chains and locked with locks
• 那盒子被铁链缠绕 铜锁锁紧
• And labeled kindly do not touch it's war
• 贴心地附有标签“不要碰 这是战争”

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