Beginning French - Laurie Anderson

Beginning French - Laurie Anderson
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I've been doing a lot of concerts in French
我最近在法语演唱会上表演了很多次
Unfortunately I don't speak French
可惜的是我并不会说法语
I memorize it
我只能靠记忆来演唱
I mean my mouth is moving but
我的嘴在动，但其实
I don't really understand what I'm saying
我并不知道自己在说什么
It's like sitting at the breakfast table
这就像早晨坐在餐桌旁
And it's early in the morning and you're not quite awake
天刚亮，你还没完全清醒
And you're just sitting there eating cereal
只是坐在那里吃着麦片
And sort of staring at the writing on the box
我盯着盒子上的文字
And not reading it exactly
并没有真正读懂
Just more or less looking at the words
只是大致看着那些词
And suddenly for some reason you snap to attention
突然，不知为何，你猛然警觉
And you realize that what
意识到你所读的
You're reading is what you're eating
正是你所吃的
But by then it's much too late
但那时已经太迟了
After doing these concerts in French
在法语演唱会后
I usually had the temporary illusion that
我常常有一种短暂的错觉
I could actually speak French
以为自己真的能说法语
But as soon as I walked out on the street
但当我走上街头
And someone asked me simple directions
有人向我问路时
I realized I couldn't speak a single word
我才发现自己一个字也说不出来
So as a result of this inadequacy
因此，由于这种无能
I found that the people
我发现与我最有共鸣的人
I had the most rapport with were the babies
是那些婴儿
And one of the things I noticed about
我注意到的一件事是
These babies was that they were apparently being used
这些婴儿似乎被用作
As some kind of traffic testers
某种交通测试者
Their mothers would be
他们的母亲会
Pushing them along in their strollers
推着婴儿车前行
And they would come to a busy
然后来到一条繁忙的
Street with lots of parked cars
街道，停满了车
And the mother can't see what the traffic
而母亲无法看到交通状况
Is like because of all the parked cars
就像因为所有的停车
So she just sort of edges the stroller out
所以她只是轻轻地把婴儿车推到外面
Into the street and cranes her head out afterwards
进入街道，然后才把头伸出来
And the most striking thing about this
而最引人注目的是
Is the expression on these babies' faces
这些婴儿脸上的表情
As they sit there in the middle of traffic stranded
当他们坐在交通中间，被困在那里
Banging those little gavels they've all got
敲打着他们所有的小木槌
And they can't even speak English
他们甚至不会说英语
Do you know what I mean
你明白我的意思吗