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021、Altan - Daily Growing（日渐长大）
$ m7 ], p) K) w% P, A 又一首爱尔兰音乐天籁，有故事的歌曲，父女俩对话般的吟唱、以及歌中那种仿佛已经渗入骨髓的忧伤让人无比感伤。故事是这样的：一个女子在年轻的时候由于父亲的安排嫁给了一个显贵的子弟，她开始担心自己的年龄有一天会成为感情悲剧的主因，她埋怨父亲错误的将自己嫁给了一个比她小很多的男子。婚后第二年，他们有了自己的孩子，而她的夫君却也还是一个孩子，在一天天的长大。她送他去上学，为他裹了蓝色的头巾，她怕别人抢走父亲为自己选定依存的真爱。而命运的捉弄，却使她很快成了寡妇，在为爱人缝制寿衣的时候，她的悲哀成了整个曲子的灵魂……0 Q" t( `, e- Y
, W$ ?% H6 b* \/ v$ V Daily Growing（日渐长大）
' H& u2 y% b# A) X5 | The trees they grow high, the leaves they do grow green,树在长高,叶在变绿
0 E( m% E3 l5 i9 D; ] Many is the time my true love I've seen,许多次，我看到他的可爱+ p( o6 s; \) \9 {, C" l
Many an hour I have watched him all alone,几多时，我独自对他长久凝视，
9 K: \& S9 s5 ^; [- | He's young but he's daily growing.他还小，但他正在长大
# D x1 C- Q& E Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong,爸爸, 亲爱的爸爸, 你对你的女儿犯下一个巨大的错误; D' p5 P2 K8 Z* ]* Y: f
You have married me to a boy who is too young,你把我嫁给了一个没有成年的男孩3 U5 B& a( L: D2 t, O1 l
I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen,我二十四，他十四
5 k4 U3 p, N) y M He's young but he's daily growing.他还小，但他在长大
3 Q4 a# ~$ e# W9 U0 O& I Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong,女儿, 亲爱的女儿,我给你的安排并没有错; i' V. }+ ]7 z( n1 e; q
I have married you to a great lord's son,我把你嫁给豪门的儿子
! x2 z# H( ]& _5 e# P He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone,一旦我老去，他将是你依靠的男人
8 F0 a P- G2 O He's young but he's daily growing他还小, 但他在长大7 l: ~! i$ v2 H6 P5 v/ x
Father, dear father, if you see fit,爸爸, 亲爱的爸爸, 如果你认为合适3 f- J* O, l" v. S
We'll send him to college for another year yet,来年过后, 送他读大学吧
6 e. G7 K, B9 d6 J. m& [6 a1 k I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head,我要用蓝绸带缠上他的头# j3 O' |2 y& T2 l' s
To let the maidens know that he is married.告诉年轻的女孩, 他已经结婚+ @4 B; I: ]; U$ D' e3 G$ V0 F4 e* v
One day I was looking over my father's castle wall,曾经有一天, 我越过爸爸的院墙
, g5 C+ d, {$ f& y( C% P$ D+ ^2 t* m I spied all the boys playing with a ball,我看到一群男孩在玩球
$ F# a) P4 {7 c+ @( D& { And my own true love was the flower of them all,我的爱追逐其中
{. l' l, W: T5 L He's young but he's daily growing.他还小, 但他在长大
) w( \. E7 A H& p+ L2 ~* N! p2 o And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day,那是曙光微现的清晨; X& r# \% m! b$ K, F& r. C
They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play,他们冲入草场锻炼游戏8 ^9 @* U- K! r0 T/ ~$ A
And what they did there she never would declare,他们的幼稚，她羞于告人5 A: V" j2 O0 [0 {9 I8 J
But she never more complained of his growing.但她无从抱怨，因为他在成长; [7 @4 q% e3 h, ~4 V y
At the age of fourteen he was a married man,十四岁，他成为已婚男人, B. A5 J7 |6 E
At the age of fifteen the father of my son,十五岁,他已经是一个孩子的父亲
6 V1 n% j" @ P ^ At the age of sixteen his grave it was green,十六岁，他的墓地绿草如茵
- H. f2 ^; s; `6 h7 N6 \' r And death had put an end to his growing.死亡终止他的成长9 ]0 k$ @) Y( H/ L1 L
I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud,我买来法兰绒，为我的可爱做着寿衣
$ ^6 ~0 {0 ~3 _+ u With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down,一针下去，泪如雨: Q8 B k7 d; P+ v
With every stitch I put in it, how the tears they will flow,一针上来，雨是泪
. ?7 ?! w, l% f% \, s* d Cruel fate has put an end to his growing.残酷的命运终结他的成长 |
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