What style !什么流派的，
I've been wondering since this morning,自从今天早上我就一直很想知道， but I can't work out who this amazing piano player is.我想不出究竟是谁弹得如此美妙，
I don't think you've ever heard of him.我想你没有听说过他， Who is he ?他是谁？
If I told you that this pianist never existed, I wouldn't be lying.如果我告诉你，这个钢琴家根本不存在，我是说实话。
I don't like secrets. They're like dirty underwear !我不喜欢秘密，就像肮脏的内衣裤，
Come on,Yank, who the devil is playing ?说吧，究竟是谁弹的， It's my secret.这是我的秘密，
It was the first year of this frigging century,那是这该死的世纪的第一年， as defined by an unknown coloured coal stoker on the Virginian.正如弗吉尼亚号上的一个烧煤黑人说的那样，
Rich ass bastards ! Only lose dirty handkerchiefs and cigarette butts !有钱人是狗崽子只留下脏的手帕和烟头，
Nevera watch, even a dented one, oran odd cuff-link.从不留下手表，即使是表面凹凸的手表、衫袖链扣之类的东西，
Not even a fake fucking ring !也不会有假的戒指， Hey,look here, a whole cigar !看这儿，有个完整的香烟，
Must have been some rich pauperat the party.肯定是有些败家子在宴会上，
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Look at this shit ! Damn rich !看，该死的有钱人，
They never forget anything, except when they owe you money.他们不会忘记任何事，除非他们欠你的钱，
What the hell are you doing here ?你在这干什么？ T.D. Lemons.T.D.柠檬， Hello, Lemon !你好，柠檬。 Immigrant business !移民的生意，
Give birth in secret somewhere on deck在甲板的某个地方悄悄地生了个孩子， and then leave onthe ship another mouth to feed !然后留给船上的其他人养， That's big trouble with the immigration office !移民局有麻烦了，
What can a kid like him be when he grows up ? Another immigrant !小孩长大以后什么样子呢？又一个移民，
Don't listen to those bastards. Go on, lap it up boy !不要听他们胡说.来，舔一下，It's milk.这是牛奶，
They left this one in first class hoping some rich guy would take him他们把小孩留在头等舱，想有个有钱人收养他， and give him a happy life.给他幸福的生活，
-Isn't that right, Danny? -What do you think ?丹尼，你说对吗？你说呢？ And who does the little ape get instead? A poor worthless nigger !现在谁收养了？一个穷光蛋的黑鬼，
Fuck poverty, you stinking sewer rats !见鬼去吧，穷！讨厌的沟渠老鼠， T.D.was written on the box, do you rats know what that means ?篮子上写着“T.D.”.
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你们这些老鼠知道是什么意思吗？
I forgot, you can't read !哦，我忘记了，你们不识字，
I'll tell you what it means, it means Thanks Danny !我告诉你们吧，是“谢谢丹尼”的意思，
They left that boy for me and I'm keeping him.他们把孩子留给我，让我来照顾他， -What are you going to call him ? -That's a problem.你叫他什么，这是个问题， I didn't think of that.我没想过，
To start with, I'll give him my name, DannyBoodman.我会让他跟我姓，叫丹尼布曼，
Then I'll put T.D. inthe middle like the rich put on their cuff-links.我会把T.D.放在中间，就像富人们在衫袖链扣上写的那样，
It's classy to put letters inthe middle of a name.把字母放在名字中间很经典， All the fucking lawyers have got them in the middle of their names.所有该死的律师都是把字母放在名字中间的，
One of mine was called John P.T.K.Wonder.我的律师中有一个就叫做约翰P.T.K华德，
-The one who sent you to jail ? -What a good memory you've got !就是送你进监狱的那个吗？真好的回忆，
If my son grows up to be alawyer, I'll kill him !如果我儿子长大以后做律师，我就杀了他，
But his name's goingto be DannyBoodman T.D. Lemon.但是他的名字还是叫丹尼布曼T.D.柠檬，
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-What do you think ? -It's up to you.You're his mother !你们觉得怎样？你决定吧，你是他的母亲，
I like it, but it's short. It needs an ending.“我喜欢，不过太短了，需要有个结尾”， He ain't no duke's son, Danny !他不是公爵的儿子，丹尼，
You found him on a Tuesday, call him Tuesday !你是星期二发现他的，就叫他星期二吧，
That's a good idea for a stupid nigger !好主意，蠢材，
I found him the first month of the first year of this new century,我在这个新的世纪的第一年的第一个月发现他，
so I'm calling him Nineteen Hundred !我要叫他1900，
-But that's a number ! -It was, but now it's a name.可那是个数字.本来是，但现在是个名字了，
DannyBoodman T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred !丹尼布曼T.D.柠檬1900， Quick,the baby !快，孩子， Stop that cradle.把摇篮停下来，
How can something that small shit so much ?一个小孩怎么拉这么多屎， Lemon Nineteen Hundred. Shake him, shake him.柠檬1900.摇他， Nineteen Hundred's lucky, he was born in shit !1900真幸运，在屎中出生， Thanks Danny?谢谢丹尼， Thanks Danny?谢谢丹尼，
It was like the second coming of Christ.好象是耶稣的二次降临，
Maybe it was,with all the miracles that kid had up his sleeve.也许就是，因为这孩
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子注定有奇迹，
Hell, he did everything on the water but walk.他能在水上做任何事，除了走路， And I heard that he'd done that too.我听说他也试过水上走路， And that's how little Nineteen Hundred grew up这是1900成长的过程， inside that cradle as big as a ship.在船一样大的摇篮里，
Dannywas afraid that they'd take him away because of documents and visas,丹尼害怕有人会带走他，因为证明和签证的问题，
so the boy lived his early years hidden away所以早年这孩子是在躲藏中度过的， in the belly of the Virginian.在弗吉尼亚号的里面， Now try by yourseIf.现在你试试，
Push your finger against these words so the letters can't run away !用手指指着单，他们就不会跑掉，
-Man . . . -Okay, Lemon.“人”.好的，柠檬， Go . . .“去”…
-Ma. . . -Just abit more.“马”.大声点， Ma.“马”，
You read like a god, Lemon !你读得像上帝，柠檬，
Now put them all together like the boiler valves.现在连在一起读，就像窝炉阀一样， Go on.来，
Man-go-Mama !人去马， Right, keep going.就这样，继续，
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