《Gus: The Theatre Cat》歌词

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[00:00:00] Gus is the cat at the theatre door

[00:00:07] Gus是剧院门口的一只猫

[00:00:07] His name as I ought to have told you before

[00:00:13] 之前我应该告诉过你他的名字

[00:00:13] Is really Asparagus

[00:00:17] 真的是叫Asparagus吗

[00:00:17] And that's such a fuss to pronounce

[00:00:21] 这样一个发音奇怪的名字

[00:00:21] That we usually call him just Gus

[00:00:28] 我们通常只是叫他Gus

[00:00:28] His coat's very shabby he's thin as a rake

[00:00:34] 他的衣服很破旧 他骨瘦如柴

[00:00:34] And he suffers from palsy that

[00:00:37] 他患有脑瘫

[00:00:37] Makes his paw shake

[00:00:40] 摇动着他的爪子

[00:00:40] Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats

[00:00:47] 然而他年轻时是一只相当聪明的猫

[00:00:47] But no longer a terror to mice or to rats

[00:00:54] 但是现在不再有老鼠恐惧他

[00:00:54] For he isn't bry cat that he was in his prime

[00:01:00] 因为在他辉煌的时候 他不捉老鼠

[00:01:00] Though his name was quite famous

[00:01:04] 虽然他的名字很有名

[00:01:04] He says in his time

[00:01:07] 他说 在他那个时候

[00:01:07] And whenever he joins his friends at their club

[00:01:13] 无论什么时候他都会加入到他朋友的聚会中去

[00:01:13] Which takes place at the

[00:01:15] 聚会就在

[00:01:15] Back of the neighboring pub

[00:01:20] 邻居的酒店里举行

[00:01:20] He loves to regale them if someone else pays

[00:01:27] 如果别人支付 他喜欢款待他们

[00:01:27] With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days

[00:01:33] 这是来自他辉煌时刻的陈年旧事

[00:01:33] For he once was a star of the highest degree

[00:01:39] 曾经他是最红的明星

[00:01:39] He has acted with Irving he's acted with Tree

[00:01:46] 他扮演Irving和Tree

[00:01:46] And he likes to relate his success on the halls

[00:01:51] 他喜欢把他的成功和他的公司联系在一起

[00:01:51] Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls

[00:01:59] 在那里 美术馆曾经给了他七个电话

[00:01:59] But his greatest creation as he loves to tell

[00:02:06] 但他喜欢讲述他最伟大的创造

[00:02:06] Will's Firefrorefiddle the Fiend of the Fell

[00:02:21] 会是Firefrorefiddle吗 堕落的恶魔

[00:02:21] I have played in my time every possible part

[00:02:29] 在每个可能的部分我都会奏乐演唱

[00:02:29] And I used to know seventy speeches by heart

[00:02:37] 我曾记得有七十篇演讲

[00:02:37] I'd extemporize backchat I knew how to gag

[00:02:45] 我临时凑合着去演戏 我知道如何插科打诨

[00:02:45] And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag

[00:02:52] 我知道如何让猫从袋子里放出来

[00:02:52] I knew how to act with my back and my tail

[00:02:59] 我知道如何用我的背和尾巴来表演

[00:02:59] With an hour of rehearsal I never could fail

[00:03:06] 一个小时的彩排 我不能失败

[00:03:06] I'd a voice that would

[00:03:08] 有个声音

[00:03:08] Soften the hardest of hearts

[00:03:13] 软化最坚硬的心

[00:03:13] Whether I took the lead or in character parts

[00:03:21] 我能否成为带头人

[00:03:21] I have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell

[00:03:27] 我坐在可怜的Nell的床边

[00:03:27] When the curfew was rung

[00:03:30] 当晚钟敲响

[00:03:30] Then I swung on the bell

[00:03:33] 然后我敲钟

[00:03:33] In the pantomime season I never fell flat

[00:03:40] 在哑剧里我从未失败

[00:03:40] And I once understudied Dick Whittington's cat

[00:03:46] 我曾经知道 Dick Whittington也是一只猫

[00:03:46] But my greatest creation as history will tell

[00:03:55] 但是历史会告诉我的光辉历史

[00:03:55] Was Firefrorefiddle the Fiend of the Fell

[00:04:10] 会是Firefrorefiddle吗 堕落的恶魔

[00:04:10] And someone will give him a toothful of gin

[00:04:15] 有人会给他一小杯杜松子酒

[00:04:15] He will tell how he once played

[00:04:18] 他会告诉他如何

[00:04:18] A part in East Lynne

[00:04:20] 在East Lynne扮演角色

[00:04:20] At a Shakespeare

[00:04:21] 在Shakespeare的表演里

[00:04:21] Performance he once walked on pat

[00:04:25] 他曾一直走下去

[00:04:25] When some actor suggested the need for a cat

[00:04:30] 当一些演员建议需要一只猫

[00:04:30] And I say now these kittens

[00:04:34] 我说现在这些小猫

[00:04:34] They do not get trained

[00:04:36] 他们没有得到训练

[00:04:36] As we did in the days when Victoria reigned

[00:04:43] 在维多利亚时期 我们就得到了训练

[00:04:43] And never get drilled in a regular troupe

[00:04:49] 但从不去钻在一个常规的剧团里

[00:04:49] And they think they are smart

[00:04:51] 他们认为他们很聪明

[00:04:51] Just to jump through a hoop

[00:04:55] 百般讨好

[00:04:55] And he says as he scratches himself with his claws

[00:05:01] 他说他用爪子抓伤自己

[00:05:01] Well the theatre is certainly not what it was

[00:05:07] 当然剧院什么都没有

[00:05:07] These modern productions are all very well

[00:05:13] 这些现代的作品都很好

[00:05:13] But there's nothing to equal

[00:05:17] 但没有什么平等

[00:05:17] From what I hear tell

[00:05:21] 我告诉你 我听到的

[00:05:21] That moment of mystery when I made history

[00:05:31] 我创造了那一段神秘的历史

[00:05:31] As Firefrorefiddle the Fiend of the Fell

[00:05:36] 会是Firefrorefiddle吗 堕落的恶魔