歌词
Now, if i may digress momentarily from the main stream of this evenings symposium,
现在，我先稍微偏离一下今天晚上的座谈会的主题。
I'd like to sing a song which is completely pointless
我想要唱一首完全没有用处的歌曲
but which is something i picked up during my career as a scientist.
但这也是我在一个科学家的职业生涯中创作的。
this may prove useful to somebody some day perhaps,
它可能在以后的某个日子对某些人十分有用
In a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.
比如在某些异乎寻常的环境中
It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune.
这首歌，简单来说就是所有的化学元素组合到一个可被认出的调子
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
我们有锑、砷、铝、硒
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
还有氢、氧、氮、铼、
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
镍、钕、镎、锗、
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
铁、镅、钌、铀、
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
铕、锆、镏、钒、
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
镧、锇、砹、镭、
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
金、镤、铟、镓、
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
碘、钍、铥、铊。
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
我们有钇、镱、锕、铷
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
还有硼、钆、铌、铱、
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
锶、硅、银、钐、
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
铋、溴、锂、铍、钡、
Isn't that interesting?
这不有趣吗？
I knew you would.
我就知道。
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period.
我希望你们都在记笔记，因为一会儿会有小测。
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
我们有钬、氦、铪、铒
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
还有磷、钫、氟、铽、
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
锰、汞、钼、镁、
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
镝、钪、铈、铯、
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
铅、镨、铂、钚、
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
钯、钷、钾、钋、
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
钽、锝、钛、碲、
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
镉、钙、铬、锔。
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
我们有硫、锎、铁、锫
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
还有钔、锕、锘、
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
氩、氪、氖、氡、氙、锌、铑
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
最后是氯、碳、钴、铜、钨、锡和钠。
These are the only ones of which the news has come to ha'vard,
这些只是上报到哈佛的元素
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.
也有很多其他但还未被找到的。
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