The Elements
Now, if i may digress momentarily from the main stream of this evenings symposium,
現在，我先稍微偏離一下今天晚上的座談會的主題。
Id like to sing a song which is completely pointless
我想要唱一首完全沒有用處的歌曲
but which is something i picked up during my career as a scientist.
但這也是我在一個科學家的職業生涯中創作的。
this may prove useful to somebody some day perhaps,
它可能在以後的某個日子對某些人十分有用
In a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.
比如在某些異乎尋常的環境中
Its simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune.
這首歌，簡單來說就是所有的化學元素組合到一個可被認出的調子
Theres antimony , arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
我們有銻、砷、鋁、硒
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
還有氫、氧、氮、錸、
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
鎳、釹、镎、鍺、
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
鐵、镅、釕、鈾、
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium ,
銪、鋯、鎦、釩、
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
鑭、鋨、砹、鐳、
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
金、镤、銦、鎵、
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
碘、釷、铥、鉈。
Theres yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
我們有釔、鐿、錒、銣
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
還有硼、钆、鈮、銥、
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
鍶、矽、銀、釤、
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
鉍、溴、鋰、鈹、鋇、
Isnt that interesting?
這不有趣嗎？
I knew you would.
我就知道。
I hope youre all taking notes, because theres going to be a short quiz next period.
我希望你們都在記筆記，因為一會兒會有小測。
Theres holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
我們有钬、氦、鉿、鉺
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
還有磷、鈁、氟、铽、
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
錳、汞、鉬、鎂、
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
鏑、鈧、鈰、銫、
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
鉛、镨、鉑、钚、
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium ,
鈀、钷、鉀、釙、
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
鉭、锝、鈦、碲、
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
鎘、鈣、鉻、鋦。
Theres sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
我們有硫、锎、鐵、锫
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
還有鍆、錒、锘、
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
氬、氪、氖、氡、氙、鋅、銠
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium .
最後是氯、碳、鈷、銅、鎢、錫和鈉。
These are the only ones of which the news has come to havard,
這些只是上報到哈佛的元素
And there may be many others, but they havent been discavard.
也有很多其他但還未被找到的。