Ballad Of The Great Eastern-Sting

[ti:Ballad of the Great Eastern] [ar:Sting] [al:The Last Ship (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ballad Of The Great Eastern - Sting [00:08.35]In 18 hundred and 59 the engineer Brunel
一八五九年，工程师Brunel [00:11.66] [00:12.71]Would build the greatest ship afloat
想建造最大的船 [00:14.72]And rule the ocean's swell
统治海洋 [00:16.22] [00:17.14]Nineteen thousand tons of steel
一万九千吨的钢铁 [00:19.21]They used to shape the mighty keel
用来建造龙骨 [00:21.57]Forged inside the smelter where
把它融在里面 [00:23.26] [00:23.82]They made the gates of Hell
他们建造了地狱之门 [00:25.82] [00:26.94]And the name upon the contract
这是合同上的名字 [00:28.56] [00:29.44]Isambard Brunel
Isambard Brunel. [00:30.50] [00:34.99]As day-by-day the monster grew
一天一天，这怪兽长大了 [00:37.24]The engineer Brunel
工程师Brunel [00:38.35] [00:39.48]Would watch the devil's handiwork
看着自己的杰作和 [00:41.35]And woe betide a man who shirks
倒霉的逃跑人 [00:43.23] [00:43.91]Or slows the pace to build the keel
或是故意拖慢建造龙骨的人 [00:46.17]Nineteen thousand tons of steel
一万九千吨的钢铁 [00:47.98] [00:48.72]Anyone with eyes to see is but a bride of Hell
所有人看见的只是地狱的新娘 [00:52.03] [00:52.90]And the name upon the draftsman's chart Isambard Brunel
这艘船的名字叫Isambard Brunel [00:57.83] [01:01.89]A riveter was on the hull with his apprentice lad
铆工和他的徒弟在船上 [01:05.26] [01:06.20]He'd served his time with the older man
他为这个老家伙服务 [01:08.57]Some say it was his dad
有些人说这是他爸 [01:09.88] [01:10.63]200 men upon the shift but when the day is done
到完工时，有两百多人在船上 [01:14.11] [01:15.00]The count is hundred 98 before the setting sun
其实是一百九十八，在太阳升起来之前 [01:19.92] [01:20.54]They searched the yard
他们搜遍院子 [01:22.00]All through the night until the morning bell
搜了一整晚，直到天明 [01:23.81]No more delays are countenanced by Isambard Brunel
被Isambard Brunel所打动，没人在拖延了 [01:28.23] [01:29.35]And so they work a double shift
他们卖力的干 [01:31.67]To make the time in full
让时间来得及 [01:32.98] [01:34.03]No mention of the missing men they seal the double hull
没人去管那失去的人，双层船体建好了 [01:40.15] [01:57.82]The ship was launched upon the tide
船出航了 [01:59.69]And all the townsfolk cheered
所有的人们都在欢呼 [02:01.06] [02:02.11]A brass band played
乐队高响着 [02:03.56]But not a word of omens they had feared
他们不怕预兆 [02:05.49] [02:06.48]But before the afternoon was out
但在天黑之前 [02:08.61]The celebration wrecked
庆祝会砸了 [02:09.73] [02:10.79]A dignitary clutched his heart and collapsed upon the deck
一位大人物捂着自己的心脏，然后倒在了甲板上 [02:15.35] [02:15.97]No doctors could revive him
医生救不了他 [02:18.03]As the telegraphs would tell
这是电报里说的 [02:19.40] [02:20.40]And the name upon the coffin Isambard Brunel
他的棺材就叫Isambard Brunel. [02:25.08] [02:33.32]And now upon the open sea the mighty ship did plough
大海上，船在急行着 [02:36.75] [02:37.75]But many feared the darkness in the shadow of its prow
但在船头的阴影中，很多人都害怕黑暗 [02:40.87] [02:41.74]An explosion on the lower deck would take the souls of five
在甲板上的一个爆炸就会带走五个人的生命 [02:45.36] [02:46.38]With a growing superstition 'mong the sailors still alive
活着的水手们越来越迷信了 [02:49.75] [02:52.99]The captain and his boy are lost while rowing to the shore
当船长和他儿子划船去海岸的时候失踪了 [02:55.92] [02:56.92]The crew will threaten mutiny and say they'll work no more
冒着暴乱的危险，船员们说他们再也不出海了 [03:00.49] [03:01.35]They began to say the ship was cursed
他们开始说这船被诅咒了 [03:03.73]They hadn't even seen the worst
现在还没到最糟的时候 [03:05.18] [03:05.80]They'd signed on able-bodied men
他们按照领袖的指示 [03:07.94]But they wouldn't sail to Hell
但他们再也不出海了 [03:09.30] [03:11.12]When the name upon the manifest is Isambard Brunel
这个杰作就叫Isambard Brunel [03:14.62] [03:19.24]For 14 years that ship will sail
航行了十四年 [03:21.04] [03:22.10]Misfortune taken hard
坏事越来越多 [03:23.23] [03:24.41]The owners barely find a crew to reach the breakers' yard
船长甚至再也找不到船员了 [03:27.59] [03:28.52]And as they take the plates apart
他们拆开了平板 [03:30.34]Unseal the double hull
开了那双层船体 [03:32.21] [03:33.27]The breakers call the foreman o'er
工人们叫来了领袖 [03:34.89] [03:36.01]They'd found a human skull
他们发现了一个人头骨 [03:37.21] [03:38.82]And then they find the younger man
他们找到了那个年轻人 [03:40.32] [03:41.25]Perforced to understand
他们这才理解 [03:42.20] [03:43.44]That in the hour of their torment
在他们折磨他的时候 [03:45.07] [03:45.81]He'd reached his father's hand
他把手伸向了他爸 [03:47.88] [03:51.81]In 18 hundred and 59 the engineer Brunel
一八五九年，工程师Brunel [03:55.18] [03:56.24]Would build the greatest ship afloat
想建造最大的船 [03:58.36]And rule the mighty swell
统治海洋 [03:59.79] [04:00.67]The final shift was over and the breakers' hammers fell
船完了，人们丢掉了锤子 [04:04.28] [04:05.03]And the name upon the manifest
这杰作的名字 [04:06.65] [04:07.22]The contract signed in Hell
在地狱签的合同 [04:08.72] [04:09.46]Was the same as on the draftsman's chart one Isambard Brunel
就像绘图员的草图一样叫做Isambard Brunel.