The Greatest Show On Earth-Nightwish

[00:01.06]*Part 1: Four Point Six*
一：46亿年前 [03:41.89]Archaean horizon
太古代 [03:53.59]The first sunrise
太阳初升 [04:05.02]On a pristine Gaea
照耀着大地女神无瑕的胴体 [04:16.76]Opus perfectum
生命乐章已谱写完毕 [04:22.26]Somewhere there, us sleeping
某个角落里，我们尚在沉睡 [05:22.11]"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries
“沉睡了100亿年， [05:24.45]we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet,
我们终于在这个五彩斑斓、生机勃勃、 [05:28.19]sparkling with color, bountiful with life.
美轮美奂的星球上醒来。 [05:31.35]Within decades we must close our eyes again.
数十年后，我们又行将就木。 [05:34.91]Isn't it a noble and enlightened way of spending our brief time
沐浴着阳光，思考着万物，探索我们来自何方， [05:39.62]in the sun, to work at understanding the universe
这样度过我们短暂的一生， [05:43.79]and how we have come to wake up in it?"
不是一种可贵和明智的方式吗？” [05:47.06]*Part 2: Life*
二：生命降临 [06:29.57]The cosmic law of gravity
宇宙中的万有引力 [06:32.05]Pulled the newborns around a fire
将新生的天体牵引在恒星的周围 [06:36.31]A careless cold infinity in every vast direction
一片不起眼的冷寂广阔区域中 [06:43.68]Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone
宜居带里出现了一位孤独的旅行者 [06:46.54]She has a tale to tell
她向我们讲述着生命演化的传说： [06:50.58]From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
星际物质转变为繁多的碳基生命 [06:56.13]Enter LUCA
最终成就了露卡（the Last Universal Common Ancestor） [06:57.72]The tapestry of chemistry
各式各样的化学反应 [07:03.92]There's a writing in the garden
书写着地球家园的生命传奇 [07:09.37]Leading us to the mother of all
创造着一切生命的起源 [07:14.49]We are one
九九归一 [07:17.82]We are a universe
万物一体 [07:21.61]Forebears of what will be
我们是后世的高宗 [07:25.17]Scions of the Devonian sea
泥盆纪海洋的娇种 [07:28.89]Aeons pass
万古已逝 [07:32.03]Writing the tale of us all
依旧书写着生命的传奇 [07:35.81]A day-to-day new opening
日新月异 [07:38.80]For the greatest show on Earth
进行着地球上最伟大的表演 [07:43.46]Ion channels welcoming the outside world
离子通道吸纳着外部世界的 [07:47.43]To the stuff of stars
日月精华 [07:50.28]Bedding the tree of a biological holy
滋润着神圣的生命之树 [07:53.18]Enter life
创造了生命时代 [07:57.27]The tapestry of chemistry
各式各样的化学反应 [08:03.52]There's a writing in the garden
书写着地球家园的生命传奇 [08:09.73]Leading us to the mother of all
创造着一切生命的起源 [08:14.74]We are one
九九归一 [08:18.26]We are a universe
万物一体 [08:21.61]Forebears of what will be
我们是后世的高宗 [08:24.67]Scions of the Devonian sea
泥盆纪海洋的娇种 [08:28.84]Aeons pass
万古已逝 [08:31.84]Writing the tale of us all
依旧书写着生命的传奇 [08:35.67]A day-to-day new opening
日新月异 [08:39.34]For the greatest show on Earth
进行着地球上最伟大的表演 [09:11.19]We are here to care for the garden
我们在这里守护着地球家园 [09:17.76]The wonder of birth
庇佑着 [09:21.26]Of every form most beautiful
每一种至美的生命奇迹 [09:30.88]Every form most beautiful
每一种至美的生命奇迹 [09:39.63]We are one
九九归一 [09:42.73]We are a universe
万物一体 [09:46.07]Forebears of what will be
我们是后世的高宗 [09:49.83]Scions of the Devonian sea
泥盆纪海洋的娇种 [09:53.44]Aeons pass writing the tale of us all
万古已逝 [10:00.33]A day-to-day new opening
依旧书写着生命的传奇 [10:03.59]For the greatest show on Earth
进行着地球上最伟大的表演 [11:28.09]*Part 3: The Toolmaker*
三：人类时代 [12:18.38]After a billion years
十亿年后 [12:20.18]The show is still here
这场表演仍在继续 [12:21.84]Not a single one of your fathers died young
人类祖先不再那么容易泯灭 [12:24.94]The handy travelers
心灵手巧的人类 [12:26.46]Out of Africa
冲出了非洲 [12:28.04]Little Lucy of the Afar
子孙遍天下 [12:31.17]Gave birth to fantasy
滋生了奇思妙想 [12:32.62]To idolatry
创立了偶像崇拜 [12:34.26]To self-destructive weaponry
制造了自毁武器 [12:37.55]Enter the God of gaps
涉足了神学禁区 [12:39.38]Deep within the past
挥之不去的 [12:40.63]Atavistic dread of the hunted
还有那被猎杀的原始恐慌 [12:56.44]Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought
开拓爱奥尼亚 [12:59.37]The architecture of understanding
那思想的摇篮、知识的圣殿 [13:02.63]The human lust to feel so exceptional
人类如此自命不凡 [13:05.63]To rule the Earth
意欲称霸地球 [13:08.44]Hunger for shiny rocks
贪婪金钱 [13:10.23]For giant mushroom clouds
崇尚武力 [13:11.87]The will to do just as you'd be done by
冤冤相报 [13:14.85]Enter history, the grand finale
最终，华丽谢幕成为历史 [13:18.12]Enter ratkind
迎来“鼠辈”时代 [13:21.88]Man, he took his time in the sun
人类啊！在阳光下消遣着时日 [13:25.26]Had a dream to understand
幻想着从一粒沙子 [13:28.31]A single grain of sand
窥探整个世界 [13:33.48]He gave birth to poetry
撰写了华美的诗章 [13:37.61]But one day'll cease to be
但是一切注定消亡 [13:40.43]Greet the last light of the library
迎来文明的最后一道光芒 [14:48.47]Man, he took his time in the sun
人类啊！在阳光下消遣着时日 [14:52.22]Had a dream to understand
幻想着从一粒沙子 [14:55.53]A single grain of sand
窥探整个世界 [15:00.64]He gave birth to poetry
撰写了华美的诗章 [15:04.59]But one day'll cease to be
但是一切注定消亡 [15:08.11]Greet the last light of the library
迎来文明的最后一道光芒 [15:13.21]Man, he took his time in the sun
人类啊！在阳光下消遣着时日 [15:17.14]Had a dream to understand
幻想着从一粒沙子 [15:20.54]A single grain of sand
窥探整个世界 [15:25.52]He gave birth to poetry
撰写了华美的诗章 [15:29.63]But one day'll cease to be
但是一切注定消亡 [15:32.95]Greet the last light of the library
迎来文明的最后一道光芒 [15:40.88](please sing with us)
（和我们一起唱） [15:42.80]We were here!
我们曾在这里！ [15:48.14](we were here, range your voices up with the band please,
（我们曾在这里，放开你的声音，跟乐队一起 [15:51.75]and down here everybody as load as you can! )
在这里的每个人都用尽全力！） [15:54.99]We were here!
我们曾在这里！ [16:05.87](a big one coming! )
（大招来了！） [16:07.43]We were here!
我们曾在这里！ [16:15.79](and the last one! )
（最后一次！） [16:20.00]We were here!
我们曾在这里！ [16:45.49]*Part 4: The Understanding*
四：认知 [16:56.10]"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
“能够经历生死，我们是很幸运的。 [17:01.52]Most people are never going to die because
很多人从不会死亡， [17:05.12]they are never going to be born.
因为他们从未降生于世。 [17:07.55]The potential people who could have been
这些本可以代替我的人， [17:10.53]here in my place but who will in fact never see
比撒哈拉沙漠的沙子还多， [17:13.85]the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.
有些赛过济慈， [17:19.45]Certainly those unborn ghosts include
有些超越牛顿， [17:22.26]greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.
但他们从未见过天日。 [17:25.73]We know this because the set of possible people
我们知晓这一切是因为： [17:30.19]allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set
按照遗传规律， [17:34.47]of actual people. In the teeth of those stupefying
可能出生的人口数量远远超过实际的人口数量。 [17:39.53]odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
克服了无数惊人变数，平凡如你我的人才来到世间。 [17:44.64]We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds,
我们这些中了生命大奖的人本该感激这一切， [17:51.15]how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state
又怎敢心存怨恨？ [17:56.38]from which the vast majority have never stirred?"
毕竟，还有那么多人连一点机会都没有。” [19:24.22]*Part 5: Sea-Worn Driftwood*
五：海蚀浮木 [19:48.80]"Thus, from the war of nature,
“因此，从自然的战争， [19:52.55]from famine and death,
从饥荒和死亡， [19:56.40]the most exalted object which we are capable of
我们所能想到的最崇高的目标， [20:00.13]conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals,
即高等动物的繁衍， [20:04.08]directly follows.
直接随之而来。 [20:07.56]There is grandeur in this view of life,
从自然选择的角度来看， [20:11.30]with its several powers,
生命是恢弘的。 [20:14.51]originally breathed into a few forms or into one;
按照万有引力定律 [20:20.15]and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on
地球在不断变迁。 [20:23.99]according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple
原初的自然力 [20:29.13]a beginning endless forms most beautiful
被赋予到一种或几种简单生命形式中， [20:38.06]and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
进化出了，并进化着，无数最为美丽和惊奇的生命。