歌词
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
若想从头开始做一个苹果派
You must first invent the universe
你须先创造宇宙
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
宇宙空间中充斥着网状的虫洞
You might emerge somewhere else in space
穿越虫洞 你可能去往宇宙别处
Some when-else in time
也可能跨越时间
The sky calls to us
天空告诉我们
If we do not destroy ourselves
若我们没有自我毁灭
We will one day venture to the stars
便终有一天 会向星空进发
A still more glorious dawn awaits
一个更为壮丽灿烂的黎明在等待着
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
并非日出 而是星系的升起
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
一个有着四千亿恒星的早晨
The rising of the milky way
那是银河系的升起
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
宇宙仍充满了超越我们认知的优雅真理
Of exquisite interrelationships
精致的相互关系
Of the awesome machinery of nature
和令人惊叹的自然系统
I believe our future depends powerfully
我相信我们的未来很大程度上依靠于
On how well we understand this cosmos
对宇宙了解的多少
In which we float like a mote of dust
我们如尘埃般漂浮
In the morning sky
于早晨的天空中
But the brain does much more than just recollect
然而头脑做的远不仅仅是记忆信息
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
它作出比较 合成联结 进行分析
it generates abstractions
形成抽象思维
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
最简单的想法
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
例如“第一”的概念
The brain has its own language
有复杂的逻辑基础作为支撑
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
脑运用自己的语言
A still more glorious dawn awaits
去检验世界的结构和一致性（连贯性）
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
一个更为壮丽灿烂的黎明在等待着
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
并非日出 而是星系的升起
The rising of the milky way
一个有着四千亿恒星的早晨
The sky calls to us
那是银河系的升起
If we do not destroy ourselves
天空告诉我们
We will one day venture to the stars
若我们没有自我毁灭
【Hawking】
便终有一天 会向星空进发
For thousands of years
〔斯蒂芬•霍金〕
People have wondered about the universe
千百年来
Did it stretch out forever
人类一直对宇宙感到惊奇与疑惑
Or was there a limit
它是否会永远膨胀下去
From the big bang to black holes
抑或是有限制的
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
从大爆炸到黑洞
Our image of the universe today
从暗物质到大挤压(关于宇宙灭亡的理论)
Is full of strange sounding ideas
现今我们对于宇宙的想象
【Sagan】
充满了听起来奇奇怪怪的的想法
How lucky we are to live in this time
〔卡尔•萨根〕
The first moment in human history
(现在是)人类史上第一刻
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
活在此时是多么幸运啊
A still more glorious dawn awaits
当我们实际上徜徉于另外的世界时
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
一个更为壮丽灿烂的黎明在等待着
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
并非日出 而是星系的升起
The rising of the milky way
一个有着四千亿恒星的早晨
A still more glorious dawn awaits
那是银河系的升起
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
一个更为壮丽灿烂的黎明在等待着
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
并非日出 而是星系的升起
The rising of the milky way
一个有着四千亿恒星的早晨
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
那是银河系的升起
Recently we've waded a little way out
地球表面支撑着宇宙海洋(这可能是比喻)
And the water seems inviting
不久前我们开辟了一点出路
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