[ti:THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES]
[ar:Joni Mitchell]
[al:Misses专辑1996年]
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[00:02.50]身兼歌手、词曲作者的是以批判现实主义闻名的70年代民谣天后Joni Mitchell。
[00:07.00]此曲揭露了天主教针对妓女设立的慈善收容所中的罪恶。
[00:10.00][03:56.00]注：MAGDALENE本意“妓女收容所”，翻译时保持直译“马格达林”的隐喻性。
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[00:16.00][04:04.00](O^~^O)...Cher
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[00:20.00]THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES（马格达林洗衣店）
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[00:23.00]I was an unmarried girl 我是一个未婚的女孩，
[00:25.80]I'd just turned twenty-seven 刚满27。
[00:30.00]When they sent me to the sisters 当他们派我到“姐妹”，
[00:34.35]For the way men looked at me 对于男人们这样看着我，
[00:37.35]Branded as a jezebel 打着荡妇的烙印，
[00:41.80]I knew I was not bound for Heaven 我知道我没有前往天堂。
[00:45.80]I'd be cast in shame 我会感到耻辱
[00:47.85]Into the Magdalene laundries 进入马格达林洗衣店。
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[00:59.50]Most girls come here pregnant 大部分女孩来到这里已怀孕，
[01:03.50]Some by their own fathers 一些由自己的父亲。
[01:08.15]Bridget got that belly 布里奇特得到的肚子，
[01:10.55]By her parish priest 是她教区牧师的。
[01:15.00]We're trying to get things white as snow 我们正试图把事情粉饰如雪白，
[01:17.68]All of us woe-begotten-daughters 我们大家是休戚与共的、天父所生的女儿。
[01:21.40]In the streaming stains 在污秽的
[01:23.85]Of the Magdalene laundries 马格达林洗衣店。
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[01:35.00]Prostitutes and destitutes 妓女和无依无靠的女人，
[01:39.00]And temptresses like me 还有像我这样的妖怪。
[01:41.30]Fallen women 堕落的女人们 ，
[01:44.35]Sentenced into dreamless drudgery ... 被惩罚作无梦的苦役...
[01:50.77]Why do they call this heartless place 为什么他们把这种无情的地方
[01:54.30]Our Lady of Charity? 称“圣母慈善”？
[01:57.63]Oh charity! 噢，“慈善”！
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[02:07.05]These bloodless brides of Jesus 这些信仰耶稣、没有生气的新娘，
[02:10.00]If they had just once glimpsed their groom 若她们只有露脸一次的新郎。
[02:13.50]Then they'd know, and they'd drop the stones 当时他们已知情，并且他们落井下石，
[02:17.50]Concealed behind their rosaries 躲在自己的念珠之后。（*天主教念珠会）
[02:21.10]They wilt the grass they walk upon 他们走时被遗弃的女人已衰弱枯萎，
[02:25.80]They leech the light out of a room 他们吸尽血汗后匆匆离开。
[02:28.80]They'd like to drive us down the drain 他们希望把我们付诸东流，
[02:32.30]At the Magdalene laundries 在马格达林洗衣店
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[02:44.00]Peg O'Connell died today 记牢今天，奥康内尔的死亡，
[02:46.60]She was a cheeky girl, A flirt 她是一个厚脸皮的女孩，一个调情者，
[02:49.30]They just stuffed her in a hole! 他们只是将她塞进一个土坑！
[02:51.25]Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring!
[02:57.40]当然上帝你会觉得至少有一些福音钟声在鸣响！
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[02:58.45]One day I'm going to die here too 有一天我也会死在这里，
[03:02.10]And they'll plant me in the dirt 他们把我扔进土里，
[03:07.10] (Like) Some lame bulb （就像）那些腐烂的球茎，
[03:08.50]That never blooms come any spring 永远等不到春天花开的时候……
[03:13.50]How any spring 怎么会有春天？
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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 没人有春天
[03:50.20]Not any spring 没有任何春天
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- 专辑：Turbulent Indigo
- 歌手：Joni Mitchell
- 歌曲：The Magdalene Laundries
