Magdalene Laundries-Joni Mitchell

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[00:23.74]I was an unmarried girl
我是一个未婚的女孩 [00:25.38]
刚满27 [00:27.39]Id just turned twenty-seven
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当他们派我去当姐妹 [00:31.29]When they sent me to the sisters
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对于男人们这样看着我 [00:34.31]For the way men looked at me
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打着荡妇的烙印 [00:39.53]Branded as a jezebel
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我知道我不能前往天堂 [00:41.80]I knew I was not bound for heaven
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我会感到耻辱 [00:46.01]Id be cast in shame
进入马格达林洗衣店 [00:47.84]Into the magdalene laundries
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大部分女孩来到这里已怀孕 [00:59.60]Most girls come here pregnant
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一些是他们自己的父亲 [01:03.57]Some by their own fathers
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布里奇特肚子已经变大了 [01:08.60]Bridget got that belly
是她教区牧师的 [01:09.82]By her parish priest
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我们正试图把事情粉饰如雪白 [01:15.17]Were trying to get things white as snow
我们大家是休戚与共的,天父所生的女儿 [01:17.69]All of us woe-begotten-daughters
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在污秽小时 [01:22.03]In the streaming stains
进入马格达林洗衣店 [01:23.92]Of the magdalene laundries
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**和无依无靠的女人 [01:35.55]Prostitutes and destitutes
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还有像我这样的妖怪 [01:39.27]And temptresses like me
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堕落的女人们 [01:43.43]Fallen women
被惩罚作无梦的苦役 [01:44.75]Sentenced into dreamless drudgery
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为什么他们把这种无情的地方称 [01:51.49]Why do they call this heartless place
称圣母的慈善 [01:54.13]Our lady of charity
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噢,慈善 [01:57.79]Oh charity
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这些信仰耶稣,没有生气的新娘 [02:07.23]These bloodless brides of jesus
若她们只有给新郎露脸一次的机会 [02:09.44]If they had just once glimpsed their groom
当时他们已知情,并且他们落井下石 [02:13.72]Then theyd know and theyd drop the stones
躲在自己的念珠身后 [02:16.86]Concealed behind their rosaries
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他们走时被遗弃的女人已衰弱枯萎 [02:23.21]They wilt the grass they walk upon
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他们吸尽房间的光线 [02:25.71]They leech the light out of a room
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他们把我们希望的付诸东流 [02:29.79]Theyd like to drive us down the drain
就在马格达林洗衣店里面 [02:31.80]At the magdalene laundries
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奥康内尔在今天死亡 [02:43.52]Peg oconnell died today
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她是一个厚脸皮的女孩 [02:46.83]She was a cheeky girl
一个调情者 [02:48.34]A flirt
他们只是将她塞进一个土坑 [02:49.04]They just stuffed her in a hole
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当然你会觉得上帝会至少给她一些福音的钟声 [02:51.64]Surely to God youd think at least some bells should ring
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有一天我也会死在这里 [02:59.25]One day Im going to die here too
他们把我扔进土里 [03:02.04]And theyll plant me in the dirt
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就像那些腐烂的球茎 [03:07.38]Like some lame bulb
永远等不到春天花开的时候 [03:08.58]That never blooms come any spring
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没有任何春天 [03:14.27]Not any spring
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是的,没有任何春天 [03:41.77]No not any spring
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没有任何春天 [03:50.27]Not any spring