The Death of Emmet Till

[00:00.00]The Death of Emmet Till - Bob Dylan

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[00:03.41]'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago

[01:02.47]在不久前的密西西比

[01:02.47]When a young boy from Chicago town

[01:07.64]一个来自芝加哥镇的年轻男孩

[01:07.64]Stepped through a Southern door

[01:11.48]迈进了南方的大门

[01:11.48]This boy's dreadful tragedy

[01:16.12]这个男孩命定的悲剧

[01:16.12]I can still remember well

[01:19.90]你们都应铭记在心

[01:19.90]The color of his skin was black

[01:25.00]他的肤色是黑色的

[01:25.00]And his name was Emmett Till

[01:28.79]他的名字叫做埃米提尔

[01:28.79]Some men they dragged him to a barn

[01:36.00]几个男人把他拖进了谷仓

[01:36.00]And there they beat him up

[01:39.34]在那里殴打他

[01:39.34]They said they had a reason

[01:43.60]他们自称有理有据

[01:43.60]But I disremember what

[01:47.75]但我就是无法去回想

[01:47.75]They tortured him and

[01:51.47]他们折磨他并做的那些事

[01:51.47]Did some evil things too evil to

[01:55.31]那些过于邪恶而让人不忍

[01:55.31]Repeat

[01:56.27]复述的事

[01:56.27]There was screaming sounds inside the barn

[02:00.85]在谷仓里是一声声哀嚎

[02:00.85]There was laughing sounds out on the street

[02:04.73]外面的街道上却是一阵阵欢笑

[02:04.73]Then they rolled his body

[02:10.72]之后他们将他的尸体

[02:10.72]Down a gulf amidst a blood-red rain

[02:15.87]捆于河岸之下 在腥红血雨之中

[02:15.87]And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his

[02:22.83]他们把他远远抛入水里

[02:22.83]Screaming pain

[02:23.61]以此来结束他哀嚎之苦

[02:23.61]The reason that they killed him there

[02:28.87]至于他们在那杀害他的原因

[02:28.87]And I'm sure it ain't no lie

[02:32.75]我很确定 这不是谎言

[02:32.75]He was a black-skinned boy so

[02:39.15]只是因为他们发现自己杀了他

[02:39.15]He was born to die

[02:40.94]然后看着他缓缓死去

[02:40.94]And then to stop the United States

[02:47.91]紧接着 为了阻止美国

[02:47.91]Of yelling for a trial

[02:51.70]对审判的抗议

[02:51.70]Two brothers they confessed

[02:55.58]两兄弟供认不讳

[02:55.58]That they had killed poor

[02:58.93]就是他们俩杀害了可怜的

[02:58.93]Emmett Till

[03:00.12]埃米提尔

[03:00.12]But on the jury there were men

[03:04.71]但在陪审团中有那么些人

[03:04.71]Who helped the brothers

[03:07.21]曾协助这两兄弟

[03:07.21]Commit this awful crime

[03:08.53]一同犯罪

[03:08.53]And so this trial was a mockery

[03:13.03]因此这场审判无疑是一种嘲讽

[03:13.03]But nobody seemed to mind

[03:16.63]但似乎没有人注意到这一点

[03:16.63]I saw the morning papers

[03:23.68]我看了晨报

[03:23.68]But I could not bear to see

[03:29.41]但我非常痛恨

[03:29.41]The smiling brothers walkin' down

[03:33.74]痛恨看到欢欣微笑的那兄弟俩

[03:33.74]The courthouse stairs

[03:36.18]他们走下法院的台阶

[03:36.18]For the jury found them innocent

[03:40.52]因为陪审团判决他俩无罪

[03:40.52]And the brothers they went free

[03:44.12]这两兄弟得到了释放

[03:44.12]While Emmett's body floats the foam

[03:49.09]而此时埃米提尔的尸体冒出了泡沫

[03:49.09]Of a Jim Crow southern sea

[03:52.62]在黑人专用的南方大海上漂浮

[03:52.62]If you can't speak out against this kind of thing

[03:59.34]如果你们不能大声抗议这种事

[03:59.34]A crime that's so unjust

[04:03.08]不能抗议这场不公正的邪恶罪行

[04:03.08]Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt

[04:07.09]那你们的双眼定是被亡灵的污秽所蒙蔽

[04:07.09]Your mind is filled with dust

[04:11.02]你们的双耳定是塞满了尘土

[04:11.02]Your arms and legs they

[04:14.71]你们的四肢

[04:14.71]Must be in shackles and chains

[04:16.50]定是被镣铐锁链所束缚

[04:16.50]And your blood it must refuse to flow

[04:19.51]你们的血液 一定是停止了流动

[04:19.51]For you let this human race fall

[04:25.41]因为你们让人类

[04:25.41]Down so God-awful low

[04:28.31]堕落到了令人憎恶的深处

[04:28.31]This song is just a reminder

[04:34.14]这首歌只是一个警示

[04:34.14]To remind your fellow man

[04:38.04]来警示你们的同胞

[04:38.04]That this kind of thing still lives today in that

[04:44.83]警示此类现象在现今依旧存在

[04:44.83]Ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan

[04:46.91]存在于三党的白袍之下

[04:46.91]But if all us folks that thinks alike

[04:51.18]但如果所有的人们能够觉醒

[04:51.18]If we gave all we could give

[04:55.08]如果我们尽己所能地付出全部

[04:55.08]We could make this great land of ours

[04:59.66]我们就能让属于我们的这片伟大土地

[04:59.66]A greater place to live

[05:04.06]成为一个更美好的世界