[ti:THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES]
[ar:Joni Mitchell]
[al:Misses專輯1996年]
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[00:02.50]身兼歌手、詞曲作者的是以批判現實主義聞名的70年代民謠天后Joni Mitchell。
[00:07.00]此曲揭露了天主教針對妓女設立的慈善收容所中的罪惡。
[00:10.00][03:56.00]注：MAGDALENE本意“妓女收容所”，翻譯時保持直譯“馬格達林”的隱喻性。
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[00:16.00][04:04.00](O^~^O)...CherQQ制作，歌詞自譯....p(^-^)q
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[00:20.00]THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES（馬格達林洗衣店）
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[00:23.00]I was an unmarried girl 我是一個未婚的女孩，
[00:25.80]I'd just turned twenty-seven 剛滿27。
[00:30.00]When they sent me to the sisters 當他們派我到“姐妹”，
[00:34.35]For the way men looked at me 對于男人們這樣看著我，
[00:37.35]Branded as a jezebel 打著蕩婦的烙印，
[00:41.80]I knew I was not bound for Heaven 我知道我沒有前往天堂。
[00:45.80]I'd be cast in shame 我會感到恥辱
[00:47.85]Into the Magdalene laundries 進入馬格達林洗衣店。
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[00:59.50]Most girls come here pregnant 大部分女孩來到這里已懷孕，
[01:03.50]Some by their own fathers 一些由自己的父親。
[01:08.15]Bridget got that belly 布里奇特得到的肚子，
[01:10.55]By her parish priest 是她教區牧師的。
[01:15.00]We're trying to get things white as snow 我們正試圖把事情粉飾如雪白，
[01:17.68]All of us woe-begotten-daughters 我們大家是休戚與共的、天父所生的女兒。
[01:21.40]In the streaming stains 在污穢的
[01:23.85]Of the Magdalene laundries 馬格達林洗衣店。
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[01:35.00]Prostitutes and destitutes 妓女和無依無靠的女人，
[01:39.00]And temptresses like me 還有像我這樣的妖怪。
[01:41.30]Fallen women 墮落的女人們 ，
[01:44.35]Sentenced into dreamless drudgery ... 被懲罰作無夢的苦役...
[01:50.77]Why do they call this heartless place 為什么他們把這種無情的地方
[01:54.30]Our Lady of Charity? 稱“圣母慈善”？
[01:57.63]Oh charity! 噢，“慈善”！
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[02:07.05]These bloodless brides of Jesus 這些信仰耶穌、沒有生氣的新娘，
[02:10.00]If they had just once glimpsed their groom 若她們只有露臉一次的新郎。
[02:13.50]Then they'd know, and they'd drop the stones 當時他們已知情，并且他們落井下石，
[02:17.50]Concealed behind their rosaries 躲在自己的念珠之后。（*天主教念珠會）
[02:21.10]They wilt the grass they walk upon 他們走時被遺棄的女人已衰弱枯萎，
[02:25.80]They leech the light out of a room 他們吸盡血汗后匆匆離開。
[02:28.80]They'd like to drive us down the drain 他們希望把我們付諸東流，
[02:32.30]At the Magdalene laundries 在馬格達林洗衣店
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[02:44.00]Peg O'Connell died today 記牢今天，奧康內爾的死亡，
[02:46.60]She was a cheeky girl, A flirt 她是一個厚臉皮的女孩，一個調情者，
[02:49.30]They just stuffed her in a hole! 他們只是將她塞進一個土坑！
[02:51.25]Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring!
[02:57.40]當然上帝你會覺得至少有一些福音鐘聲在鳴響！
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[02:58.45]One day I'm going to die here too 有一天我也會死在這里，
[03:02.10]And they'll plant me in the dirt 他們把我扔進土里，
[03:07.10] (Like) Some lame bulb ?。ň拖瘢┠切└癄€的球莖，
[03:08.50]That never blooms come any spring 永遠等不到春天花開的時候……
[03:13.50]How any spring 怎么會有春天？
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[03:16.40]Oh....
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[03:32.70]Ah...
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[03:41.05]Nobody any spring 沒人有春天
[03:50.20]Not any spring 沒有任何春天
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