Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol"

翻译人员: Peilu Chen 校对人员: Wang Qian

I've been playing TED for nearly a decade,

我已在TED演奏了将近十年，

and I've very rarely played

可是我几乎很少

any new songs of my own.

演奏自己的新歌。

And that was largely because there weren't any.

主要原因是，根本就没有。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

So I've been busy with a couple of projects,

我一直在忙于几个项目，

and one of them was this:

其中一个，

The Nutmeg.

叫做“肉豆蔻”（植物名）--

A 1930s ship's lifeboat,

一艘20世纪30年代的救生艇。

which I've been restoring in the garden

我把它停放在我那英格兰的海滩别墅

of my beach house in England.

一个后花园里。

And, so now,

要是现在

when the polar ice caps melt,

北极的冰川融化，

my recording studio will rise up like an ark,

我的这艘录音室就会浮起来有如诺亚方舟，

and I'll float off into the drowned world

在这个淹没的世界里漂向远方，

like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.

就像英国作家J·G·巴拉德小说里的角色一样。

During the day,

白天，

the Nutmeg collects energy

“肉豆蔻”可以通过舵手室里的太阳能电池板，

from solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse,

收集太阳能，

and from a 450 watt turbine

和桅杆上一个

up the mast.

450瓦特的涡轮机。

So that when it gets dark,

那么当夜幕降临，

I've got plenty of power.

我就有足够的电力照明，

And I can light up the Nutmeg like a beacon.

点亮照明灯，在黑暗中仿佛灯塔。

And so I go in there until the early hours of the morning,

我便待在里面创作直到天明。

and I work on new songs.

我已经完成几首新歌，

I'd like to play to you guys,

如果你们愿意成为第一批听众，

if you're willing to be the first audience to hear it.

我将非常乐意演奏。

(Applause)

（鼓掌）

It's about Billie Holiday.

是关于比利霍利迪（爵士乐坛的天后级巨星）的。

And it appears that,

当时有传说，

some night in 1947

1974年的某个夜晚，

she left her physical space

她离开那个时空，

and was missing all night,

消失了一整晚，

until she reappeared in the morning.

直到第二天早晨又再度出现。

But I know where she was.

不过我知道她去了哪里，

She was with me on my lifeboat.

其实她和我一起在这艘方舟，

And she was hot.

她很火辣。

(Music)

(音乐起)

♫ Billie crept softly ♫

♫比利温柔地躺进♫

♫ into my waking arms ♫

♫醒来后我的臂弯♫

♫ warm like a sip of sour mash ♫

♫温暖得好似一口波本威士忌♫

♫ Strange fruit for ♫

♫怪诞却成效十足♫

♫ a sweet hunk of trash ♫

♫温柔却总犯傻的她♫

♫ Panic at the stage door ♫

♫慌乱在舞台前的走廊口♫

♫ of Carnegie Hall ♫

♫卡内基大厅♫

♫ "Famous Jazz Singer Gone AWOL" ♫

♫名爵士歌唱者，擅离职守♫

♫ Must have left the building ♫

♫定是离开了大楼♫

♫ body and soul ♫

♫身心并去，毫不愧疚♫

♫ On a creaky ♫

♫今夜躲藏在已老朽的♫

♫ piano stool tonight ♫

♫钢琴凳旁♫

♫ as the moon is my ♫

♫因为月亮是我的唯一的见证♫

♫ only witness ♫

♫唯一的见证♫

♫ She was breathing ♫

♫她轻轻♫

♫ in my ear ♫

♫呼吸在我耳旁♫

♫ "This time it's love" ♫

♫此时此刻，就是爱吧♫

♫ But love is a loaded pistol ♫

♫可是，爱好似上膛的枪♫

♫ By daybreak she's gone ♫

♫天明她就要离开♫

♫ Over the frozen river, home ♫

♫去到冰冷的河岸，她的家♫

♫ Me and Johnny Walker ♫

♫剩下我和我的酒♫

♫ See in the new age ♫

♫相伴于未来的日子♫

♫ alone ♫

♫孤单孑然♫

♫ Stay with me ♫

♫留下吧♫

♫ again tonight ♫

♫今夜再留下吧♫

♫ Billie, time, ♫

♫比利，你知道吗♫

♫ time is a wily trickster ♫

♫时间是多么奸诈的诡计家♫

♫ Still an echo ♫

♫让那个回忆不断回响♫

♫ in my heart says, ♫

♫它在我心里轻声说♫

♫ "This time it's love" ♫

♫这次，是爱吧♫

(Applause)

(掌声)