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<The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard>和<Amused To Death> 是<Amused To Death >专辑头尾两首歌，里面用到了同一个老人Alf Razzell的独白，内容上有前后呼应的关系，所以放在一起翻译。

The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard Lyrics
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[Alf Razzell:]
"Two things that have haunted me most are the days when I had to
collect the paybooks; and when I left Bill Hubbard in no-man's-land."
"I was picked up and taken into their trench. And I'd no sooner taken
two or three steps down the trench when I heard a call, 'Hello Razz,
I'm glad to see you. This is my second night here,' and he said 'I'm
feeling bad,' and it was Bill Hubbard, one of the men we'd trained
in England, one of the original battalion. I had a look at his wound,
rolled him over; I could see it was probably a fatal wound. You could
imagine what pain he was in, he was dripping with sweat; and after
I'd gone about three shellholes, traversed that, had it been...had
there been a path or a road I could have done better. He pummeled
me, 'Put me down, put me down, I'd rather die, I'd rather die, put me
down.' I was hoping he would faint. He said 'I can't go any further,
let me die.' I said 'If I leave you here Bill you won't be found, let's
have another go.' He said 'All right then.' And the same thing
happened; he couldn't stand it any more, and I had to leave him
there, in no-man's-land."

Alf Razzell:
"有两件场景一直在折磨我，一是我不得不收账单的日子；另外一件就是我把Bill Hubbard留在无人区。"
"我被带到他们的站好，才走了没多远，大概两到三步的样子，我听到有人叫我'hi,Razz,真高兴看到你，
我已经在这里呆了两个晚上了'，然后他说'我感觉很糟'。这个人就是Bill Hubbard,我们在英国一起训练，
是最早来的部队。我把他翻过身来，查看了他的伤口；我能看出来，这是一个致命伤。你可以想象到他有
多痛苦，全身都被汗浸湿了；我得穿过三个壕沟，那边有条通往公路的小路，到那边我可以干得更好。他
用手打我'把我放下来吧，把我放下来吧，让我死了算了，让我死了算了，把我放下来'。我倒希望他还不如昏过去。
他说'我不行了，不能再走更远了。让我死在这里吧'。我说'如果我把你留在这里你用永远不会被发现了，让
我们再坚持一下吧'。他说'好吧'。但是没多久同样的事情又发生了；他已经不能再忍受了，我只能把他留在
那里，留在无人区了"。
就让我死在这里吧'。

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(Girl) "I don't mind about the war, that's one of the things I like to watch, if it's a war going on, 'cause then I know if our side's winning,
if our side's losing..."
女孩“我不在乎战争，我挺喜欢看的，如果战争发生的话，因为到那个时候我才知道我们会赢还是会输...”

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Amused To Death Lyrics
安乐死
Artist: Roger Waters
Album: Amused To Death
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
医生医生，我到底得了什么病？
This supermarket life is getting long
这种超市一样的生活已经够长了
What is the heart life of a colour TV
像彩电般的内心世界
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
青春女王般短暂的日子
Ooh western woman
哦，西方女人
Ooh western girl
哦，西方女孩
News hound sniffs the air
狗仔队闻着空气里的味道
When Jessica Hahn goes down
当Jessica Hahn倒台后(Jessica Hahn是一个绯闻主角，曾经担任过教会秘书，后来给花花公子拍照)
He latches on to that symbol
他马上断章取义
Of detachment

Attracted by the peeling away of feeling
被剥离感受的快感吸引
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
滥用美女外形的名人
Ooh western woman
哦，西方女人
Ooh western girl
哦，西方女孩
And the children of Melrose
Melrose的孩子们
Strut their stuff
大显身手
Is absolute zero cold enough
已经绝对零度了
And out in the valley warm and clean
山谷外温暖而干净
The little ones sit by their TV screens
孩子们坐在电视屏幕前
No thoughts to think
什么都不想
No tears to cry
没有眼泪来哭泣
All sucked dry
都干了
Down to the very last breath
直到最后一次呼吸
Bartender what is wrong with me
酒保，我出什么问题了
Why am I so out of breath
为什么我喘不过气来
The captain said excuse me ma'am
船长说，抱歉女士
This species has amused itself to death
人类已经死于安乐
Amused itself to death
把他们自己安乐死了
Amused itself to death
把他们自己安乐死了
We watched the tragedy unfold
我们看到过悲剧发生
We did as we were told
我们按照被告知的那样做了
We bought and sold
我们买进卖出
It was the greatest show on earth
事实上这就是最伟大的表演
But then it was over
然后结束了
We ohhed and aahed
我们很惊讶
We drove our racing cars
我们开着赛车
We ate our last few jars of caviar
我们吃光了最后的鱼子酱
And somewhere out there in the stars
与此同时在这个星球上某个地方
A keen-eyed look-out
正敏锐注视着
Spied a flickering light
发现了闪烁的光影
Our last hurrah
我们最后的努力
And when they found our shadows
他们发现我们的影子
Grouped around the TV sets
围坐在电视机旁
They ran down every lead
他们抓住了每一条线索
They repeated every test
重复了每一个测试
They checked out all the data on their lists
对比了他们表格上的每一个数据
And then the alien anthropologists
外星人的人类学家
Admitted they were still perplexed
不得不承认他们还是很迷惑
But on eliminating every other reason
但是排除了所有原因
For our sad demise
对于我们的死亡
They logged the only explanation left
他们记录下唯一的解释
This species has amused itself to death
人类已经死于安乐
No tears to cry no feelings left
没有眼泪，没有感觉
This species has amused itself to death
人类已经死于安乐

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[Alf Razzell:]
"Years later, I saw Bill Hubbard's name on the memorial to the missing
at Aras[?]. And I...when I saw his name I was absolutely transfixed; it
was as though he was now a human being instead of some sort of
nightmarish memory of how I had to leave him, all those years ago.
And I felt relieved, and ever since then I've felt happier about it,
because always before, whenever I thought of him, I said to myself,
'Was there something else that I could have done?'
[Background: "I'd rather die, I'd rather die..."]
And that always sort of worried me. And having seen him, and his
name in the register - as you know in the memorials there's a little safe,
there's a register in there with every name - and seeing his name and
his name on the memorial; it sort of lightened my...heart, if you like."
(Woman) "When was it that you saw his name on the memorial?"
"Ah, when I was eighty-seven, that would be a year, ninete...eighty-
four, nineteen eighty-four."
Alf Razzell
很多年以后，我看到Bill Hubbard的名字出现在Aras失踪人员纪念碑上。当我看到他名字
的时候，我完全呆住了；这意味着，他对我来说现在是一个真实的人，而不是那么多年来
那个像噩梦般困扰着我的，我不得不放弃他的场景。我开始释怀，甚至感到高兴，因为在
这以前，每一次我想到他，我都会问自己，我当时还有什么其他选择么？
[背景：让我死了算了，让我死了算了...]
这一直让我难受。直到看到他，看到他的名字在那个纪念碑上-你知道的，那总还算有点保
险，有一个地方记着所有的名字；可以说，这让我有几分宽慰。
女人问：你是什么时候在纪念碑上看到他的名字的？
嗯，在我87岁的时候，应该是那一年，1984年吧