【這句】英文怎麼說？

lame形容走路一拐一拐的，引申為理論或說出來的話站不住腳、很爛的意思。

》你可以這麼說
This lie is so lame.

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翻聽Bob Dylan的《Desolation Row》湧起一股莫名的觸動，感覺就像走過了一條漫長的荒涼之路。頭兩句不知怎的讓我想到最近的香港：

They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown

他們販售吊刑的名信片
他們把護照髹成啡色

然後我便分外留神聽接下來發生甚麼事：

The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row

美髮店擠滿了水手
馬戲團就在城後
然後來了一個特首
他們將他發入吽竇
一隻手綁住走鋼線高手
另一隻插在褲袋裡頭
還有防暴警察全在煩躁無休
他們需要某個地方抖抖
像這位小姐和我遍夜尋求
由荒涼之路口

然後找到哪裡去？似乎是酒館。

Cinderella, she seems so easy
“It takes one to know one,” she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning
“You Belong to Me I Believe”
And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend
You better leave”
And the only sound that’s left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row

灰姑娘，她似乎幾開放
「講嗰個就係嗰個。」佢笑咗
然後將雙手插進後袋
貝蒂戴維斯的風格
然後來了個羅密歐，佢喺度呻吟
「你係屬於我㗎我相信！」
然後有人話：「你來錯地方喇朋友，
你最好離開。」
然後唯一留低的聲音
在救護車走了之後
是灰姑娘的掃地聲
在荒涼之道上

我很喜歡這一種講故事的歌，因為這才叫做「吟遊」。當現在的歌失去了這種吟遊性，就空餘下一堆感質。我們已經不再用灰姑娘來形容負責打掃地方的女人，我喜歡這樣的形容，但設定跟原著是反轉的：掃完地，一到十二點，她就準時穿回自己的玻璃鞋。

然後已經好夜好夜了：

Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortune-telling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing
He’s getting ready for the show
He’s going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row

現在月亮就快都看不見
繁星也開始隱淡
占卜未來的女人
甚已將她的所有東西收起
所有除了該隱和亞伯
以及聖母院的鐘樓佗俠
人人都在做愛
或其餘的在等雨
然後有個好撒馬利亞人，他在換裝
他已經準備好出騷
今晚他將會前往嘉年華
在荒涼之道上

突然輪到《哈姆雷特》的女主角奧菲利亞登場：

Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession’s her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah’s great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into Desolation Row

現在奧菲利亞，她就倚在窗旁
我真為她擔心
在她廿二歲生日時
她已經是一個老女僕
對她，死亡是幾浪漫
她穿了一件鐵的背心
信仰就是她的自白
白活就是她的罪名
雖然她已定睛望着上方
那道挪亞的偉大彩虹
但她仍是費上時間來偷望
那條荒涼之路

而你有沒有聽過愛恩斯坦拉小提琴？這一個卻不是那一個，因為他太潦倒了：

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed a cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On Desolation Row

愛恩斯坦扮成羅賓漢
帶着他車尾廂的回憶
在一小時前才經過這裡
和他的朋友、來自善妒寺的僧侶
他看起來不染得可怕
尤其在他討煙的時候
接着他走去嗅着水喉
叨唸着字母
現在你不會想望到他
但好耐之前他都風光過
奏着電子提琴
在那荒涼之路

從荒涼到荒淫？

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They’re trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She’s in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
“Have Mercy on His Soul”
They all play on pennywhistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From Desolation Row

猥褻醫生，他將他的世界
藏在一隻皮杯裡
但他所有無性的病人
他們正嘗試吹起它
現在他的護士，某個本地的失敗者
她是山埃孔的話事人
而她亦藏了一張卡片寫着
「願主垂憐他的靈魂」
他們全都玩着尖哨
你可以聽到他們在吹
如果你把頭傾得夠遠
從荒涼之道

卡薩諾瓦是意大利聞名的詩人情聖，這一段特別令我着迷：

Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains
They’re getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera
A perfect image of a priest
They’re spoonfeeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words
And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls
“Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know
Casanova is just being punished for going
To Desolation Row”

對面街他們已釘上帷幕
他們已準備好一場盛宴
《歌聲魅影》
牧師的完美形象
他們用湯匙向卡薩諾瓦灌藥
讓他稍為有安全感
然後他們用自信來殺掉他
之前用文字毒害他
然後魅影向瘦削的女孩們喊道：
「如果你不知道就請你們離開
卡薩諾瓦已經受罪因他
前往荒涼之道。」

接下來這一段，我懷疑是在描寫納粹的集中營：

Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row

現在午夜所有特工
和超人類團隊
出來圍住了所有人
因為知道了不該知道的
然後把他們帶到工廠
那裡有心臟病機器
綁在他們的肩膊上
然之後那煤油
從城堡裡帶下來
有人會以防萬一
檢查一下看看是否無人能逃
逃往荒涼之路

Bob Dylan這首歌可能戲仿了英國詩人ES艾略特的長詩《荒原》，這首詩的一大特色是沒有人能看懂一個字——每個字都懂，湊起來卻不成意思。之前跟大家介紹過的艾茲拉龐德，勉強把《荒原》翻改成可讀的版本，加了很多註腳，務求令世人讀得通它的真意。這個情節，Bob Dylan也收錄在《Desolation Row》第九節裡面：

Praise be to Nero’s Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody’s shouting
“Which Side Are You On?”
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain’s tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row

讚美歸於尼祿的海王星
鐵達尼啟程於黎明
而每個人都發出喊聲
「你到底站哪一邊？」
而艾茲拉龐和ES艾略
在船長的塔上決鬥
卡利索普歌手取笑他們
漁民手執鮮花
在大海的窗戶之間
那裡有可愛的美人魚流過
此際沒有人想太多
關於那荒涼之路

是的，Bob Dylan是在模仿ES艾略特式的混亂，而在最後一節揭曉了混亂的原因：

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the doorknob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can’t read too good
Don’t send me no more letters, no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

係呀，我尋日收到你嘅信
（大概在門鎖壞了的時候）
你問我最近過成怎樣
是一個需要笑的笑話嗎？
全部這些你所提及的人
係呀，我知道佢哋，佢哋都幾無趣
我需要重新構建他們的臉容
給他們全都搞混了名字
此際我已經不太擅於閱讀
不要再寄更多的信給我了，不要
除非它們是你寄自
於荒涼之路

聽過這麼多段，就像走完了一段漫長的荒涼的路，有一種想哭的感覺。Bob Dylan的音樂經常都給予的這種荒涼感，只有經歷很多的人才會有這種感覺，寫得出這種詞，流下了這滴淚。

作者

你們知道嗎？ 亞塞拜然也被稱為是「火之國」🔥 因為在十三世紀時，馬可波羅經過這裡發現巴庫附近的阿普舍隆半島有許多神秘的火焰從地表露出來🐪

也難怪這裡對瑣羅亞斯德教（拜火教）是個多麼神聖的地方！甚至在十七世紀還建造了 Baku Ateshgah 火之廟，讓絲路上的旅者都有個地方可以休息以及參拜🙏 而且不限拜火教的人，連錫克教、回教徒都一起共用🕌

火之廟中間的火焰，原本從十七世紀開始就一直沒熄過。直到 1969 這邊大量產石油，才被熄滅...😓 現在燃燒的火焰是用附近的瓦斯點燃的，雖然人工但還是蠻有意思的～🔥

距離火之廟不遠的地方有個地方叫做 “Yanar Dag” 👀 原本以為這個長達十公尺的火焰從好幾百年前就一直燃燒所以才特地過來看😌

這個地方門票費有夠貴！再加上看過土庫曼的「地獄之門」後就覺得很爛😈 沒想到居然是在 1950年代有個牧羊人不小心丟根煙下去而燃燒起來😠 到底要相信那個版本我不清楚，但是這個版本關係到這個門票費值不值得啊！☹️

我們也去參觀了在 2007年被譽為世界文化遺產的戈布斯坦岩石藝術文化景觀😊 這裡擁有六千多幅古代雕刻，平均約五千年到兩萬年之久👕😲

而亞塞拜然擁有全世界最多的泥火山🌋 當然我那天摔進去泥火山的故事就不用多說了...😅 說真的我覺得地形像是走在月球上有點誇大，但是夏天來泥火山口泡個泥火山浴確實蠻特殊的😆

這次在巴庫真的很感謝 Azerbaijan Tours and trips 的兩兄弟 Alishan 與 Miryusif 😊 感覺像是朋友當地陪，而不是導遊😁 而且我因為掉進去泥火山把他的車子用超藏，Alishan 不只沒嫌棄我，還建議把行程分成兩天讓我可以回家梳洗😢 超級感動～

他們的旅行社有許多不同的行程，如果有機會來亞塞拜然可以聯絡他們唷➡️ www.travelinbaku.com 😁

#亞塞拜然 #巴庫 #世界遺產

Azerbaijan is known as "Land of Fire"🔥 When Marco Polo passed here in 13th century, he noticed that mysterious flames were appearing all over Absheron region🐪

We did a day tour with @travelinbaku to explore the peninsula 🚗 To see how the natural fires of Azerbaijan have played have a crucial part in the creation of Zoroastrianism- one of the oldest religions in the world🙏

The Baku Ateshgah or the fire temple was used as a Hindu, Zoroastrian, and Sikh place of worship particularly for travelers along the Silk Road🕌 Fires were burning long before the temple was built🔥

The center eternal flame was burning since 17th century until it was put out in 1969, after nearly a century of exploitation of petroleum and gas in the area😞

Not too far from the temple, there's this place called "Yanar Dag" where there's a 10M long of gas burning 🔥 Seriously it was so lame after seeing the "Gates of Hell" in Turkmenistan 😈

Plus, originally I thought it was cool cz it has been burning for centuries, turns out it was lit up by a shepard accidentally in 1950s 😒 Super overpriced, was not pleased😂

We also visited Gobustan National Park🌳 The region was declared as an UNESCO in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, mud volcanoes and gas-stones in the region🌋

Azerbaijan has the most amount of mud volcanoes in the world🌍 To be honest it didn't look all the special other than the fact I fell into it😅 Poor York had to hand wash all my clothes...👕

Had to go into Gobuston Museum looking all dirty to see the 6,000 rock carvings which on the average dating back to 5,000-20,000 years😲

Overall we had a great time in Baku thanks to Alishan and his brother Miryusif 😊 It felt like we hanged out with two friends rather than having a guide😁

They have a lot of specialized tours on the website➡️ www.travelinbaku.com be sure to check it out 😎

#Azerbajian #Baku #UNESCO

生活中常聽到的這些英文，讓我再來拍一集秒變澳洲人，往100集邁進！😂

這次分享了6個
1. Hip Hip Hooray~ ➡️ 唱完生日快樂歌後，在澳洲會喊的歡呼
2. Far Out ➡️ 生氣不爽的時候，會用的詞
3. Cool Bananas/Beans ➡️ 要搭會的時候，就像：對啊！是喔！
4. Lame ➡️ 講話很瞎的時候會說的口語
5. Shout ➡️ 不只是大叫，在澳洲口語常用是請客的意思！
6. Ready Set Go ➡️ 預備備！開始！！ 等同3.2.1 Go!

希望你們會喜歡這個影片摟！
下週見～～

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BBNO$ HOOK
Move that 动那个
Break that 摔这个
Cash another rack 再买个架子
Matter fact 实际上
Grab a strap 快抓条带子
Ima clap 我便是掌声
Brap brap 啪啊啪
Hey 嘿
In her ear like a qtip 就像棉签一样入她的耳
Armo bois I eat sujuk 亚美人的小子们我吃辣肠
Pop tags 流行标签
Pop bottles 潮流饮品
Top waddles game 最摇摆的游戏
I ain’t playing 我没不正经
You a stain 你是污点
Fuck the fame 去它的名誉
Overseas I ain’t no lame 放眼四海我非儿戏
Oh baby how you do it 噢宝贝你怎么做到的
There’s really nothing to it 实际上这真的没什么

ALROCCO VERSE
Ok I'm overseas I'm overseas I'm rolling in w**d I'm getting creamed
好，我出国了，我出国了，我在抽烟，我很兴奋
Whipppin’ Benzes goggled lensed if you know what I mean
快把靓妹，快找美女，如果你知道我什么意思
Tokyo to Toronto and they know we got asian lean
从东京到多伦多他们都知道我们要搞到亚洲的水
Look me up in Chinatown shorty and ask for ROC
过不久来中国城找我，问我中国的事！
Aw yeah baby girl I know you grinding tryna get it all
噢耶，宝贝，我知道你努力，想要我全都
Hustling with a hustler baby mama love it raw
想要努力赚钱，赚钱，她爱我
Thought I was a rich chigga god dang ain't ur fault
不过我是个有钱的中国佬，这你倒是没说错
Cause my people know who them real China gods,
因为我的人们知道谁是他们真的中国神
We the China god.
我们是中国神

BBNO$ HOOK
Move that 动那个
Break that 摔这个
Cash another rack 再买个架子
Matter fact 实际上
Grab a strap 快抓条带子
Ima clap 我便是掌声
Brap brap 啪啊啪
Hey 嘿
In her ear like a qtip 就像棉签一样入她的耳
Armo bois I eat sujuk 亚美人的小子们我吃辣肠
Pop tags 流行标签
Pop bottles 潮流饮品
Top waddles game 最摇摆的游戏
I ain’t playing 我没不正经
You a stain 你是污点
Fuck the fame 去它的名誉
Overseas I ain’t no lame 放眼四海我非儿戏
Oh baby how you do it 噢宝贝你怎么做到的
There’s really nothing to it 实际上这真的没什么

BBNO$ VERSE
My money keep on stacking up 我的钱越叠越高
I’m sipping witha single cup 我用一个杯子啜饮饮料
The finest lean, the china lean 最棒的紫水，中国的水
I’m a silly boi pop a bean 我真是个傻小子去吃豆子
Like where you been it’s 2012 就像你2012在的地方
My demographic age is 12 我的人口学年龄是12
My rap game be da commonwealth 我的rap成为了联邦
And I be asus - you be dell 而我是华硕——你是戴尔
Brand new clique 全新的帮派
Brand new bitch 全新的妞
Whatchu wanna do 你想怎么的
What a thought in my brain 我的脑子里有个想法
And it‘s kinda rude 而这想法有点粗鲁
Baby bib 宝贝围兜
And it‘s iced 而它已经冷冰冰了
How I like my food 我多喜欢我的食物
Got a feat 被Al Rocco
From Al Rocco 请来做音乐
Up in China too 也来到了中国

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