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[ar:Laurie Anderson]
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[00:00.000]The Geographic North Pole (Live) - Laurie Anderson
[00:09.612]以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
[00:09.612]The summer of 1974 was brutally hot in New York
[00:15.360]1974年的夏天，纽约酷热难耐
[00:15.360]And I kept thinking about how nice and icy it
[00:17.948]我一直在想，北极该是多么凉爽宜人
[00:17.948]Must be at the North Pole And then I though
[00:22.126]然后我突然想到
[00:22.126]“Wait a second why not go ”
[00:25.306]“等等，为什么不去呢？”
[00:25.306]You know like in cartoons where
[00:26.885]你知道，就像动画片里那样
[00:26.885]They hang going to
[00:27.724]他们把去北极的计划
[00:27.724]The North Pole on their door knobs
[00:29.404]挂在门把手上
[00:29.404]And they just take off
[00:32.713]然后就直接出发了
[00:32.713]So I spent a couple of weeks preparing for the trip
[00:35.912]于是，我花了几周时间准备这次旅行
[00:35.912]Getting a hatchet a huge backpack maps
[00:39.570]买了一把斧头、一个大背包、地图
[00:39.570]Knives sleeping bags
[00:41.079]刀具、睡袋
[00:41.079]Lures and a three month supply of Banic
[00:44.729]鱼饵和三个月的Banic补给
[00:44.729]A versatile high-protein paste that can be
[00:47.929]这是一种多功能高蛋白糊状物
[00:47.929]Made into flat bread biscuits or cereal
[00:53.859]可以做成扁面包、饼干或麦片
[00:53.859]Now I had decided to hitch hike and one day I just
[00:58.157]我决定搭便车，有一天
[00:58.157]Walked out onto Austin Street
[01:00.736]我径直走到奥斯汀街上
[01:00.736]Weighing down seventy pounds of gear
[01:03.735]背负着七十磅的装备
[01:03.735]And stuck out my thumb
[01:08.255]伸出拇指搭便车
[01:08.255]Going North I asked the driver
[01:11.875]一路向北 我问司机
[01:11.875]As I struggled into a station wagon
[01:15.614]费力挤进一辆旅行车
[01:15.614]After I got out of New York
[01:18.114]离开纽约之后
[01:18.114]Most of the rides were trucks
[01:20.113]大多数搭的都是卡车
[01:20.113]Until I reached the Hudson Bay and began
[01:22.752]直到抵达哈德逊湾 开始
[01:22.752]To hitch in small mail planes
[01:26.641]搭乘小型邮政飞机
[01:26.641]The pilots were usually guys who'd
[01:29.261]飞行员通常是那些
[01:29.261]Gone to Canada to
[01:30.560]逃到加拿大去
[01:30.560]Avoid the draft or else embittered Vietnam vets
[01:36.777]躲避征兵的人，或者是心怀怨恨的越战老兵
[01:36.777]Who never wanted to go home again
[01:40.927]他们再也不想回家
[01:40.927]Either way they always wanted to show
[01:43.427]无论哪种情况，他们总是想展示
[01:43.427]Off a few of their stunts
[01:46.577]一些他们的特技
[01:46.577]We'd go swooping along the rivers doing
[01:49.827]我们会沿着河流俯冲
[01:49.827]Loop do loops and baby
[01:54.717]做回旋和翻滚，宝贝
[01:54.717]And they'd drop me off at an airstrip
[01:57.047]他们把我送到一个简易机场
[01:57.047]“There'll be another plane by here couple
[01:58.436]“几周后会有另一架飞机经过这里；再见；祝你好运”
[01:58.436]Of weeks; see ya; good luck ”
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[02:06.446]I never did make it all the way to the geographic pole;
[02:10.666]我最终没能到达地理北极；
[02:10.666]It turned out to be a restricted area and no
[02:14.744]原来那里是禁区，
[02:14.744]One was allowed to fly in or even over it
[02:20.391]不允许任何人飞入甚至飞越
[02:20.391]I did get within a few miles of the
[02:22.320]但我确实到达了距离北极几英里的地方
[02:22.320]Magnetic pole though
[02:24.990]磁北极而已
[02:24.990]So it wasn't really that disappointing
[02:28.790]所以并没有那么令人失望
[02:28.790]I entertained myself in the evenings
[02:31.690]我在夜晚自娱自乐
[02:31.690]Cooking or smoking
[02:34.780]做饭或抽烟
[02:34.780]And watching the blazing light of
[02:37.269]看着那熊熊燃烧的光芒
[02:37.269]The huge Canadian
[02:38.539]巨大的加拿大
[02:38.539]Sunsets as they turned the lake into fire
[02:46.579]日落将湖面染成火焰
[02:46.579]Later I lay on by back looking up
[02:49.119]后来我躺下仰望天空
[02:49.119]At the Northern lights
[02:51.389]在北极光下
[02:51.389]And imagining there'd been
[02:52.289]想象着
[02:52.289]A nuclear holocaust and
[02:54.229]一场核灾难
[02:54.229]That I was the only human being left in all of
[02:56.498]我是整个北美大陆
[02:56.498]North America and what would I do then
[03:02.278]唯一幸存的人类 我该何去何从
[03:02.278]And then when these lights went out
[03:06.827]当这些光芒消失时
[03:06.827]I stretched out on
[03:07.667]我躺在地上
[03:07.667]The ground watching the stars as
[03:12.006]仰望星空
[03:12.006]They turned around
[03:14.025]他们转身离去
[03:14.025]And their enormous silent
[03:26.364]留下那巨大而无声的寂静
[03:26.364]I finally decided to turn back because of my hatchet
[03:30.654]我终于决定返回，因为我的斧头
[03:30.654]I'd been chopping some wood and the hatchet flew
[03:33.413]我正砍着木头，斧头却飞了出去
[03:33.413]Out of my hand on the upswing
[03:36.862]从我的手中脱手而出
[03:36.862]And I did what you should never do
[03:38.512]我做了你永远不该做的事
[03:38.512]When this happens:
[03:40.582]当这种情况发生时：
[03:40.582]I looked up to see where it had gone
[03:45.641]我抬头寻找它的去向
[03:45.641]And it came down
[03:47.391]它突然落下
[03:47.391]Fffooo just missing my head and I thought
[03:52.921]嗖的一声，差点砸中我的头，我心想
[03:52.921]My God I could be working around
[03:55.861]天啊，我可能会在这里
[03:55.861]Here with a hatchet
[03:56.641]带着斧头工作
[03:56.641]Emme in my skull and I'm ten miles
[04:00.241]斧头嵌进我的头骨，而我离机场
[04:00.241]From the airstrip
[04:02.291]还有十英里
[04:02.291]And nobody in the whole world
[04:05.321]这世界上没有人
[04:05.321]Knows where I am
[04:20.425]知道我在哪里
[04:20.425]Daddy Daddy it was just like you said
[04:31.534]爸爸 爸爸 就像你说的那样
[04:31.534]Now that the living outnumber the dead
[04:42.394]如今生者已多于逝者
[04:42.394]Where I come from it's a long thin thread
[04:51.654]我来自的地方 是一条细长的线
[04:51.654]Across an ocean Down a river of red
[05:01.963]穿过海洋 沿着红色的河流
[05:01.963]Now that the living outnumber the dead
[05:12.513]如今生者已多于逝者
[05:12.513]Speak my language
[05:14.423]请说我的语言
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