The Mummers' Dance 伶人之舞

非常喜歡Loreena McKennitt的 the Mummers' dance. 試著重新翻譯了一下。

The Mummers’ Dance 

伶人之舞 

 

When in the springtime of the year 

When the trees are crowded with leaves 

When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew 

Are dressed in ribbons fair 

一年之計

枝繁葉茂

挺拔的岑樹、蒼老的橡樹、風流倜儻的白樺，嫵媚嬌羞的紅豆杉

都係上了美麗的絲帶

 

When owls call the breathless moon   

In the blue veil of the night 

The shadows of the trees appear 

Amidst the lantern　light 

在夜幕的藍色麵紗下

智慧鳥對著令人窒息的月亮鳴叫 （兩句對調）

在闌珊的燈火之中

樹影婆娑（兩句對調）

 

We've been rambling all the night 

And some time of this day 

Now returning back again 

We bring a garland gay 

我們徹夜漫步

那一刻

又再重現

我們快樂的拿著花環

 

Who will go down to those shady groves And summon the shadows there 

And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms 

In the springtime of the year

在這一年之計（時間狀語提前）

誰將走入那成蔭的灌木叢

把影子召集

把絲帶係在大樹的臂膀上？

 

The songs of birds seem to fill the wood 

That when the fiddler plays 

All their voices can be heard 

Long past their woodland days 

鳥鳴穿越樹林

提琴手在演奏

隔著鬱鬱蔥蔥的歲月 

互相唱和（兩句對調）

 

We've been rambling all the night And some time of this day 

Now returning back again 

We bring a garland gay 

我們徹夜漫步

那一刻

又再重現

我們快樂的拿著花環

 

And so they linked their hands and danced 

Round in circles and in rows 

And so the journey of the night descends 

When all the shades are gone 

他們挽起手臂，翩翩起舞

圍成圈，列成行，旋轉旋轉

當所有暮色褪去

夜才剛剛開始（兩句對調） 

 

"A garland gay we bring you here “

And at your door we stand 

It is a sprout well budded out 

The work of our lord's hand” 

我們快樂地把花環帶給你

在你的門前

這遍滿蓓蕾的新條

是上帝完美的工

 

We've been rambling all the night 

And some time of this day 

Now returning back again 

We bring a garland gay 

我們徹夜漫步

那一刻

又再重現

我們快樂的拿著花環 （x2）