Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats (Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌)
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Are you blind when you’re born? |
你出生是盲的嗎? |
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Can you see in the dark? |
你能在黑暗中視物嗎? |
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Dare you look at the king |
當你看著一位國王時 |
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Would you sit on his throne? |
你膽敢坐在他的皇座上嗎?(1) |
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Can you say of your bite |
你會說得出 |
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That it’s worse than your bark? |
做得到嗎?(2) |
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Are you cock of the walk |
當你獨自走路時 |
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When you’re walking alone? |
你會昂首挺胸嗎? |
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Because Jellicles are and Jellicles do |
因為Jellicles是而Jellicles會 |
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Jellicles do and Jellicles would |
Jellicles會而且Jellicles要 |
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Jellicles would and Jellicles can |
Jellicles要而且Jellicles能 |
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Jellicles can and Jellicles do |
Jellicles能而且Jellicles會 |
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When you fall on your head |
當你的頭往下掉時 |
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Do you land on your feet? |
你可以以腳著地嗎? |
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Are you tense when your sense |
你會變得警覺,當你感覺到 |
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There’s a storm in the air? |
在空氣中的暴風? |
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Can you find your way blind |
你可以閉著眼睛找路 |
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When you’re lost in the street? |
當你在街上迷路時? |
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Do you know how to go |
你可知道如何的去 |
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To the Heaviside Layer? |
到那Heaviside Layer? |
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Because Jellicles can and Jellicles do |
因為Jellicles行而且Jellicles會 |
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Jellicles do and Jellicles can |
Jellicles會而且Jellicles能 |
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Jellicles can and Jellicles do |
Jellicles能而且Jellicles會 |
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Jellicles do and Jellicles can |
Jellicles會而且Jellicles能 |
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Jellicles can and Jellicles do |
Jellicles能而且Jellicles會 |
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Can you ride on a broomstick |
你能否乘著掃帚 |
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To places far distant? |
到遙遠的地方? |
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Familiar with candle |
與蠟燭 |
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With book and with bell |
書本及鈴熟悉?(3) |
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Are you Whittington’s friend? |
你是否威靈頓的朋友?(4) |
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The Pied Piper’s assistant? |
那吹笛人的助理? |
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Have you been an alumnus |
你是否從 天堂中貶下 |
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Of heaven and hell? |
或是從地獄中逃出? |
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Are you mean like a minx? |
你是否邪惡如浪女? |
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Are you lean like a lynx? |
輕靈如山貓? |
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Are you keen to be seen |
你會否彎身察看 |
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When you’re smelling a rat |
當你嗅到老鼠的氣味時? |
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Were you there when the Pharaohs |
你是否在場,當法老王 |
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Commissioned the Sphinx? |
完成獅身人臉像時? |
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If you were and you are |
如果你曾是及仍是 |
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You are Jellicle Cats |
你就是Jellicles貓了! |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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We are dive through the air |
我們可以在空氣中俯衝 |
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Like a flying trapeze |
有如在高空的鞦韆上 |
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We can turn double somersaults |
我們可以打個雙觔斗 |
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Bounce on a tire |
反彈在車胎上 |
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We can run up a wall |
我們可以在牆頭奔跑 |
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We can swing through the trees |
可以盪過樹木 |
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We can balance on bars |
我們可以在籬笆上平衡 |
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We can walk on a wire |
可以在電線上行走 |
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Jellicles can and Jellicles do |
Jellicles能而且Jellicles會 |
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Jellicles can and Jellicles do |
Jellicles能而且Jellicles會 |
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Jellicles can and Jellicles do |
Jellicles能而且Jellicles會 |
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Jellicles can and Jellicles do |
Jellicles能而且Jellicles會 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Can you sing at the same time |
你可以同一時間唱出 |
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In more than one key |
多過一個音 |
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Duets by Rossini and waltzes by Strauss |
羅西尼的二重唱及史特勞斯的華爾滋 |
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And can you as cats do begin with a ‘C’ |
以及你能如貓兒一般以C為首 |
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That always triumphantly |
能總是洋洋得意的 |
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Brings down the house? |
推倒一間屋子? |
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Jellicle cats are queen of the nights |
Jellicle貓是黑夜之后 |
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Singing at astronomical heights |
歌聲直透雲霄 |
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Handling pieces from the messiah |
掌握著自彌賽亞來的樂譜 |
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Hallelujah, angelical choir |
哈利路亞,天使般的合唱! |
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The mystical divinity |
那神秘的神聖 |
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If unashamed felinity |
如貓兒的傲然 |
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Round the cathedral rang “Vivat” |
在大禮堂中迴響著「萬歲」 |
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Life to the Everlasting Cat |
永恆之貓的生命 |
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Feline, fearless, faithful and true |
貓兒,無懼,忠誠而誠實 |
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To others who do |
對那一樣如此的 |
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What? |
什麼? |
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Jellicles do and Jellicles can |
Jellicles會而且Jellicles能 |
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Jellicles can and Jellicles do |
Jellicles能而且Jellicles會 |
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Jellicles cats sing Jellicle chants |
Jellicle貓唱Jellicle的讚美曲 |
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Jellicle old and Jellicles new |
老的Jellicle及少的Jellicles |
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Jellicles song and Jellicles dance |
Jellicles之歌及Jellicles之舞 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Practical cats, dramatical cats |
務實的貓,好夢的貓 |
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Prgmatical cats, fanatical cats |
自負的貓,狂熱的貓 |
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Oratorical cats, Delphicoracle cats |
雄辯的貓,神諭的貓 |
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Skeptical cats, dispeptical cats |
多疑的貓,憂鬱的貓 |
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Romantical cats, pedantical cats |
浪漫的貓,學究的貓 |
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Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats |
諷刺的貓,隱喻的貓 |
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Statistical cats and mystical cats |
統計的貓及神秘的貓 |
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Political cats, hypocritical cats |
政治的貓,虛偽的貓 |
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Clerical cats, hysterical cats |
刻板的貓,神經質的貓 |
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Cynical cats, rabbinical cats |
憤世的貓,教條的貓 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats |
Jellicle貓兒的Jellicle之歌 |
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There’s a man over there |
有個人在那邊 |
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With a look of surprise |
一臉驚訝的樣子 |
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As much as to say well |
似乎是在說:「好 |
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Now how about that? |
那現在又怎樣呢?」 |
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Do I actually see |
我是真的看見 |
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With my own very eyes |
以我的一雙眼睛? |
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A man who’s not heard |
竟然有人沒有聽過 |
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Of a Jellicle cat |
Jellicle貓兒? |
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What’s a Jellicle cat? |
什麼是Jellicle貓兒? |
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What’s a Jellicle cat? |
什麼是Jellicle貓兒? |
註:
1)古埃及的時候,貓兒的地位甚至比法老王(也就是國王啦!)更崇高,所以難怪貓兒們現
在依然高傲的與王爭位。
2)這是網友Foxhound提供的資料。此句隱含「When you threaten to do things that are worse than what
you could actually bring yourself to do. 」的意思;亦有可能是因為貓兒們在諷刺只會吠的狗
3)傳說魔法師都會有這三種道具的;在塔羅牌的一號牌「魔法師」上面就有這三件道具(另
外還有是寶劍及金幣);而一直以來,貓兒都被認為是魔法師及巫師的伴侶;所以對這三
件道具都會熟悉的。
4)此處說的可能是來自童話Dick Whittington和他的貓的故事(參考:http://www.spotlightpublications.com/dick.htm);
下句中的吹笛人亦為來自德國的民間故事,傳說是他用笛聲把一群老鼠引到河中的。既然都是抓老鼠的,自然
都是貓的朋友。