The Greatest Show On Earth-Nightwish

[00:00.000] 作词 : Tuomas Holopainen [00:01.000] 作曲 : Tuomas Holopainen/Marko Hietala [03:42.590]Archaean horizon
太古时代的地平线 [03:54.060]The first sunrise
最初的黎明 [04:05.680]On a pristine gaea
照射着原始的大地女神 [04:17.310]Opus perfectum
神工鬼斧 [04:23.140]Somewhere there, us sleeping
我们仍在某个地方沉睡 [05:21.660]"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.
经历了上百亿年的沉睡，我们最终在这颗绚丽的行星上睁开了双眼，被赋予色彩的闪耀和生命的富饶。 [05:32.340]Within decades we must close our eyes again.
然而在数十年之内，我们终将再度闭上双眼。 [05:35.580]Isn't it a noble and enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?"
在太阳底下，将我们短暂的一生投入到探索宇宙万物以及追问存在之意义中，难道这不是一种高雅而开明的生活方式吗？ [06:29.060]The cosmic law of gravity
宇宙间的万有引力定律 [06:31.950]Pulled the newborns around a fire
在燃烧中创造新生 [06:36.140]A careless cold infinity in every vast direction
每一个无限延伸的方向 无情而冰冷 [06:43.380]Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone
宜居带内 旅者孤独前行 [06:46.720]She has a tale to tell
她要讲述一段传奇 [06:50.210]From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
从孕育恒星的摇篮 到碳基物质的宴席 [06:55.850]Enter LUCA
生命始祖诞生 [06:57.540]The tapestry of chemistry
化学反应编织出生命 [07:04.050]There's a writing in the garden
花园里书写的字句 [07:09.820]Leading us to the mother of all
引导我们寻根溯源 [07:15.200]We are one
我们是一体的 [07:18.300]We are a universe
我们是整个宇宙 [07:22.240]Forebears of what will be
孕育着未来 [07:25.280]Scions of the Devonian sea
泥盆纪汪洋中的后代 [07:29.370]Aeons pass
世代变迁 [07:32.410]Writing the tale of us all
遗留下我们的传奇 [07:36.390]A day-to-day new opening
日复一日开启新的篇章 [07:39.440]For the greatest show on Earth
致以地球上最伟大的剧场 [07:43.430]Ion channels welcoming the outside world
离子通道迎接着外部世界 [07:47.730]To the stuff of stars
通向恒星的构成物 [07:50.460]Bedding the tree of a biological holy
种下神圣的生命之树 [07:53.460]Enter life
生命由此生长 [07:57.500]The tapestry of chemistry
化学反应编织出生命 [08:03.930]There's a writing in the garden
花园里书写的字句 [08:09.870]Leading us to the mother of all
引导我们寻根溯源 [08:15.110]We are one
我们是一体的 [08:18.300]We are a universe
我们是整个宇宙 [08:21.940]Forebears of what will be
孕育着未来 [08:25.380]Scions of the Devonian sea
泥盆纪汪洋中的后代 [08:29.270]Aeons pass
世代变迁 [08:32.320]Writing the tale of us all
遗留下我们的传奇 [08:36.110]A day-to-day new opening
日复一日开启新的篇章 [08:39.460]For the greatest show on Earth
致以地球上最伟大的剧场 [09:11.780]We are here to care for the garden
我们到这来 悉心守护花园 [09:18.710]The wonder of birth
这一创生的奇迹 [09:21.460]Of every form most beautiful
世间美丽之最 [09:30.480]Every form most beautiful
世间美丽之最 [09:39.910]We are one
我们是一体的 [09:42.910]We are a universe
我们是整个宇宙 [09:46.800]Forebears of what will be
孕育着未来 [09:50.090]Scions of the Devonian sea
泥盆纪汪洋中的后代 [09:54.030]Aeons pass writing the tale of us all
世代变迁 遗留下我们的传奇 [10:00.770]A day-to-day new opening
日复一日开启新的篇章 [10:04.040]For the greatest show on Earth
致以地球上最伟大的剧场 [12:18.990]After a billion years
十亿年后 [12:20.630]The show is still here
剧场仍旧上演节目 [12:22.230]Not a single one of your fathers died young
你们的父亲都不曾英年早逝 [12:25.270]The handy travelers
敏捷的旅行者 [12:26.970]Out of Africa
走出非洲大陆 [12:28.570]Little Lucy of the Afar
来自远方的猿人化石 [12:31.560]Gave birth to fantasy
孕育了幻想 [12:33.110]To idolatry
孕育了神灵膜拜 [12:34.750]To self-destructive weaponry
以及终将毁灭自身的武器 [12:37.950]Enter the God of gaps
崇拜上帝的时代降临 [12:39.440]Deep within the past
深入到过去 [12:40.940]Atavistic dread of the hunted
血液里流淌的狩猎恐惧 [12:56.200]Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought
艾欧尼亚 拥抱理性的文明诞生了 [12:59.600]The architecture of understanding
知识的大厦拔地而起 [13:02.590]The human lust to feel so exceptional
贪婪的人类自命不凡 [13:05.980]To rule the Earth
渴望统治地球 [13:08.830]Hunger for shiny rocks
索求宝石的财富 [13:10.470]For giant mushroom clouds
也索求蘑菇云的杀戮 [13:12.020]The will to do just as you'd be done by
这一切将无止境地重复上演 [13:15.210]Enter history, the grand finale
历史将以如此壮丽的方式画上句点 [13:18.250]Enter ratkind
鼠辈横行的时代 [13:21.250]Man, he took his time in the sun
人类曾经在太阳底下 [13:25.440]Had a dream to understand
梦想着去探索 [13:28.630]A single grain of sand
一条砂砾上的纹路 [13:33.720]He gave birth to poetry
他所创造的诗歌 [13:37.910]But one day'll cease to be
总有一天将不复存在 [13:41.100]Greet the last light of the library
向图书馆最后一抹微光致敬 [14:48.490]Man, he took his time in the sun
人类曾经在太阳底下 [14:52.730]Had a dream to understand
梦想着去探索 [14:55.860]A single grain of sand
一条砂砾上的纹路 [15:00.950]He gave birth to poetry
他所创造的诗歌 [15:05.140]But one day'll cease to be
总有一天将不复存在 [15:08.400]Greet the last light of the library
向图书馆最后一抹微光致敬 [15:13.420]Man, he took his time in the sun
人类曾经在太阳底下 [15:17.730]Had a dream to understand
梦想着去探索 [15:20.820]A single grain of sand
一条砂砾上的纹路 [15:25.950]He gave birth to poetry
他所创造的诗歌 [15:30.190]But one day'll cease to be
总有一天将不复存在 [15:33.300]Greet the last light of the library
向图书馆最后一抹微光致敬 [15:43.020]We were here!
我们曾经存在于此！ [15:55.580]We were here!
我们曾经存在于此！ [16:08.000]We were here!
我们曾经存在于此！ [16:20.430]We were here!
我们曾经存在于此！ [18:11.350]"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
我们注定要死亡，这反而说明我们是幸运的。 [18:15.350] Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
大多数人无需经历死，因为他们未曾出生。 [18:21.650]The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.
那些原本有机会出生并站在这里的人，最终没有看到真正的太阳，这些人的数量超过了比撒哈拉沙漠的沙子。 [18:28.650]The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.
那些原本有机会出生并站在这里的人，最终没有看到真正的太阳，这些人的数量超过了比撒哈拉沙漠的沙子。 [18:35.650] Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats,
在这些未出生的幽灵里，有比济慈还伟大的诗人， [18:38.650]scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people.
比牛顿还伟大的科学家。我们清楚这点，因为从DNA的角度，可能存在的人要远远多于实际存在的人。 [18:46.550]scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people.
比牛顿还伟大的科学家。我们清楚这点，因为从DNA的角度，可能存在的人要远远多于实际存在的人。 [18:53.850] In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I,
正是因为这些非比寻常的意外 才造就了你我 [18:56.150]in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few,
平凡地生存在这 我们是幸运的极少数 [19:02.950]who won the lottery of birth against all odds,
在众多可能性中赢得了出生的头彩 [19:08.050] how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from
我们怎敢因为自己注定要回到那一最初的状态 而悲痛不已呢 [19:12.950]which the vast majority have never stirred?"
绝大多数人甚至没有机会参与其中 [21:27.430]"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,
从这个角度审视生命，会发现一种伟大，这种力量 [21:36.130] having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one;
曾经以一种或多种形式显现过。 [21:41.230]and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity,
与此同时，地球受到引力作用而经历一个个周期 [21:46.630]from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,and are being, evolved."
从起初最简单的形式，到后来的精致与华丽，演化之路永不止息。