Ballad Of The Great Eastern - Sting

Ballad Of The Great Eastern - Sting

In 18 hundred and 59 the engineer Brunel
一八五九年，工程师Brunel
Would build the greatest ship afloat
想建造最大的船
And rule the ocean's swell
统治海洋
Nineteen thousand tons of steel
一万九千吨的钢铁
They used to shape the mighty keel
用来建造龙骨
Forged inside the smelter where
把它融在里面
They made the gates of Hell
他们建造了地狱之门
And the name upon the contract
这是合同上的名字
Isambard Brunel
Isambard Brunel.
As day-by-day the monster grew
一天一天，这怪兽长大了
The engineer Brunel
工程师Brunel
Would watch the devil's handiwork
看着自己的杰作和
And woe betide a man who shirks
倒霉的逃跑人
Or slows the pace to build the keel
或是故意拖慢建造龙骨的人
Nineteen thousand tons of steel
一万九千吨的钢铁
Anyone with eyes to see is but a bride of Hell
所有人看见的只是地狱的新娘
And the name upon the draftsman's chart Isambard Brunel
这艘船的名字叫Isambard Brunel
A riveter was on the hull with his apprentice lad
铆工和他的徒弟在船上
He'd served his time with the older man
他为这个老家伙服务
Some say it was his dad
有些人说这是他爸
200 men upon the shift but when the day is done
到完工时，有两百多人在船上
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
They searched the yard
他们搜遍院子
All through the night until the morning bell
搜了一整晚，直到天明
No more delays are countenanced by Isambard Brunel
被Isambard Brunel所打动，没人在拖延了
And so they work a double shift
他们卖力的干
To make the time in full
让时间来得及
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
The ship was launched upon the tide
船出航了
And all the townsfolk cheered
所有的人们都在欢呼
A brass band played
乐队高响着
But not a word of omens they had feared
他们不怕预兆
But before the afternoon was out
但在天黑之前
The celebration wrecked
庆祝会砸了
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
No doctors could revive him
医生救不了他
As the telegraphs would tell
这是电报里说的
And the name upon the coffin Isambard Brunel
他的棺材就叫Isambard Brunel.
And now upon the open sea the mighty ship did plough
大海上，船在急行着
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
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
With a growing superstition 'mong the sailors still alive
活着的水手们越来越迷信了
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
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
They began to say the ship was cursed
他们开始说这船被诅咒了
They hadn't even seen the worst
现在还没到最糟的时候
They'd signed on able-bodied men
他们按照领袖的指示
But they wouldn't sail to Hell
但他们再也不出海了
When the name upon the manifest is Isambard Brunel
这个杰作就叫Isambard Brunel
For 14 years that ship will sail
航行了十四年
Misfortune taken hard
坏事越来越多
The owners barely find a crew to reach the breakers' yard
船长甚至再也找不到船员了
And as they take the plates apart
他们拆开了平板
Unseal the double hull
开了那双层船体
The breakers call the foreman o'er
工人们叫来了领袖
They'd found a human skull
他们发现了一个人头骨
And then they find the younger man
他们找到了那个年轻人
Perforced to understand
他们这才理解
That in the hour of their torment
在他们折磨他的时候
He'd reached his father's hand
他把手伸向了他爸
In 18 hundred and 59 the engineer Brunel
一八五九年，工程师Brunel
Would build the greatest ship afloat
想建造最大的船
And rule the mighty swell
统治海洋
The final shift was over and the breakers' hammers fell
船完了，人们丢掉了锤子
And the name upon the manifest
这杰作的名字
The contract signed in Hell
在地狱签的合同
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.