2011年8月17日 星期三

【影音】I Am the Very Model of a Modern Salarian Scientist

 

在質量效應 2 這款遊戲中,玩家在和 Salarian 科學家 Mordin 討論 Collectors 這個神秘種族時,提到了他們缺乏文化和創造力。Mordin 為了表現自己的「文藝素養」,還特地露了一手歌藝。這也成了質量效應 2 的名場面之一。


Mass Effect 2 - Mordin's salarian scientist song

 

英文歌詞 中文翻譯

I am the very model of a scientist Salarian,

I've studied species: Turian, Asari and Batarian;

I'm quite good at genetics  as a subset of biology because I am an expert which I know is a tautology;

My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian,

I am the very model of a scientist Salarian!

我是一個很典型的科學家索拉瑞安人,

我學習過這些種族:圖瑞安、阿莎莉和巴泰瑞安

我相當善於遺傳學這個生物學上的分支因為我是一個熟知此領域的專家;


我的異種科學研究從都市到農村,

我是一個很典型的科學家索拉瑞安人

 

這首歌是由維多利亞時代的歌劇創作者 Gilbert 和 Sullivan 在 The Pirates of Penzance 一劇中的名曲: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General﹝或稱為 Major-General's Song﹞改編而成。 原曲被認為是 Gilbert 和 Sullivan 最有名的創作,並且以難唱聞名。 為什麼難唱?你聽了原曲就知道了。

另外如同這首歌的歡樂氣氛,它也帶有嘲諷意味。 在歌詞中將軍什麼都會,但是和軍事相關的知識卻沒多少, 諷刺在全面通才教育之下,很多應該具有深度知識的人才卻不熟悉自己的本科專業。

 

Mass Effect 2 - Mordin Sings .mp3 (with music) [ORIGINAL]﹝Mordin 版本加上配樂


I am the very model of a modern major general!

 

英文歌詞 中文翻譯

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery—
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy—
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

我是一個很典型的現代化少將

我有蔬菜、動物和礦物的知識,

我知道英國國王,我引用戰爭史


從馬拉松到滑鐵盧、按照先後順序;
我也很熟悉數學問題

我了解方程式,不論是一次還是二次方程式
關於二項式定理,我收羅了很多新消息,
伴隨很多令人高興的事實和畢氏定理的正方形有關。

我很擅長積分和微分;

我知道目前已知微生物的學名;

總之在蔬菜、動物和礦物方面,

我是一個很典型的現代化少將

我知道我們的神話史,亞瑟王和
卡拉道克爵士

我回答艱深的連字詩,我對悖論有極佳的愛好。
我引用赫利奧加巴盧斯所有罪行的輓歌,
我可以畫出圓錐體的拋物曲線;

我能正確地談論拉菲爾從葛利特‧道與左法尼,

我知道亞里斯托芬的「蛙」裡的青蛙大合唱!

我能把我聽過音樂的喧鬧前奏哼成賦格,

然後那那吵死人的皮納福號軍艦的笛音充斥在整個空中。

我還能用巴比倫的楔形文字記流水帳。
然後告訴你卡洛塔克斯統一的一切細節;
總之在蔬菜、動物和礦物方面,

我是一個很典型的現代化少將

事實上,當我知道「馬美拉」和「雷佛林」的意思,

當我能立刻從標槍談到毛瑟槍,

突襲和奇襲之類的事情發時、我更加小心謹慎,

當我清楚地知道什麼是「後勤補給」,

當我學會了現代砲術發展的內容,

當我懂了比一個修道院見習修士會得還多的戰術 ─
總之,當我有了一絲一毫的戰略素養 ─

我將會是前所未有的更好少將啊。

關於我的軍事知識,雖然我大膽並且勇於冒險,

只有本世紀初的水準;


不過總之在蔬菜、動物和礦物方面,
我是一個很典型的現代化少將

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