Galaxy Song
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
当生活让你感到万分沮丧的时候,布朗太太
And things seem hard or tough
日子过得粗鄙不堪,好像陷入了困境
And people are stupid obnoxious or daft
人们看上去都蠢极了,举止间的癫狂真是令人作呕
And you feel that you've had quite enough
此刻的你觉得已经受够了这一切
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
试着想想,你站立在一颗处于演化中的行星上
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
它正以每小时900英里的速度进行自转
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
同时用每秒19英里的速度沿着轨道环绕太阳
A sun that is the source of all our power
那颗叫做"太阳"的恒星是我们的能量之源
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
太阳,还有你,还有我,还有那些肉眼可见的所有星体
Are moving at a million miles a day
每天都要在太空中行进过1,000,000英里
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
在这团我们称作"银河"的星系的外层螺旋臂中,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'
这个速度达到了40,000英里每小时
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
我们的银河系自身就容纳着千亿颗星体
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
横穿过它要经过100,000光年的距离
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
最拥挤的是中央部分,物质都积聚在离核心16,000光年范围内
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide
可是我们不在那里头,那段区域只有3,000光年的宽度
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
而我们离银河系的中心有着30,000光年的距离
We go 'round every two hundred million years
我们绕着中心旋转,一年内行经200,000,000光年
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
而我们的银河不过是数亿万星系中微不足道的一个
In this amazing and expanding universe
在这个令人惊诧的,向外扩张的宇宙里头
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
宇宙自身也在不断地膨胀之中
In all of the directions it can whizz
向四面八方伸展,掠过空间发出"嗖嗖"声
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
它用尽了自身的力量,以光的速度扩张着,就像你所知道的那样
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is
每分钟12,000,000英里,那可是世界上最快的速度了
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
所以请记住了,当你自觉低人一等又或是无所依靠的时候
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
要想起最不可思议的事情莫过于你的出生
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
接着祈祷太空中的某处还存在着智慧生命
Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth!
因为在这颗该死的地球上连个屁也没有!