《At Seventeen》七歲的時候??

席琳·迪翁(Celine Dion)重釋民謠女將Janis Ian招牌曲

歌詞：

I learned the truth at seventeen

十七歲那年，我了解了真相

That love was meant for beauty queens

愛情是美麗女人的專利

And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles

擁有純潔笑容的高中女生

Who married young and then retired

她們早婚然后過著安逸的生活

The valentines I never knew

那些與我無緣的情人節(jié)

The Friday night charades of youth

那些上演著青春鬧劇的星期五

Were spent on one more beautiful

也都是為了那些美女而設(shè)

At seventeen I learned the truth

十七歲那年，我了解了真相

And those of us with ravaged faces

而我們這些臉蛋一無可取的

Lacking in the social graces

拙于社交

Desperately remained at home

饑渴的在家中枯坐

Inventing lovers on the phone

虛擬情人來電想象他們說

Who called to say Come dance with me

出來跳個舞吧

And murmured vague obscenities

和一些若有似無的輕言佻語

It isn't all it seems at seventeen

十七歲不是想象中的樣子

A brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs

一個棕眼女孩穿著姐妹相傳的過時舊衣

Whose name I never could pronounce

連名字我都叫不出

Said - Pity please the ones who serve

她說：請同情那些卑微的

They only get what they deserve

她們是得了本分應(yīng)得的

The rich relationed hometown queen

那個家世輝煌的校花

Marries into what she needs

嫁給了她的需求

With a guarantee of company

一個長期的伴侶

And haven for the elderly

和一家老來棲身之所

So Remember those who win the game

記得那些贏了游戲

Lose the love they sought to gain

卻輸了所愛的人

In debentures of quality and dubious integrity

迷失在剩余的價值

Their small-town eyes will gape at you

和模糊和自尊里

In dull surprise when payment due

小鎮(zhèn)的眼睛對你投以平淡無奇的驚視

Exceeds accounts received at seventeen

當(dāng)你的算計入不敷出，就在十七歲那年

To those of us who knew the pain

給那些深知此痛的我們

Of valentines that never came

為了那從未降臨的情人節(jié)

And those whose names were never called

也給那些在甄選籃球隊員時

When choosing sides for basketball

從未雀屏中選的

It was long ago and far away

已是好久好遠(yuǎn)以前的事了

The world was younger than today

那時的世界還年輕

When dreams were all they gave for free

做夢是唯一免費的消遣

To ugly duckling giris like me

對我們這此丑小鴨來說

We all play the game and when we dare

我們都玩過且無忌的

We cheat ourselves at solitaire

在這類單人游戲里自欺欺人

Inventing lovers on the phone

虛擬情人來電想象他們說

Repenting other lives unknown

替一些不知名的人感到遺憾

That call and say Come dance with me

佯裝他們說：出來跳個舞吧

And murmur vague obscenities

和一些若有似無的輕言佻語

At ugly girls like me at seventeen

對著我們這些丑小鴨，那年十七歲