Anything Goes - Cole Porter

Written by：Cole Porter

Times have changed

今时不同往日

And we've often rewound the clock

如今我们夜夜笙歌

Since the puritans got a shock

自从顽固的人们受到冲击

When they landed on Plymouth rock

我们就像是新移民踏入了新大陆

If today

如果当初

Any shock they should try to stem

人们不曾让新兴文化流行

'Stead of landing on Plymouth rock

如果他们试图掌控这股潮流

Plymouth rock would land on them

最后大潮会将他们掀翻

In olden days a glimpse of stocking

在往日 在街上瞥见

Was looked on as something shocking

时尚女郎已经是新闻一件

But now god knows

谁能想到现在随处可见

Anything goes

在这个时代 任何事情都有可能发生

Good authors too who once knew better words

过去妙笔生花的作家写出句句名言

Now only use four letter words

如今只剩下小混混嘴里的

Writing prose

粗言秽语

Anything goes

在这个时代 任何事情都有可能发生

If driving fast cars you like

如果你喜欢飙车

If low bars you like

如果你喜欢低杆

If old hymns you like

如果你喜欢颂词

If bare limbs you like

如果你喜欢胴体

If Mae west you like

如果你喜欢那银幕上的妖女

Or me undressed you like

或者是你更喜欢赤裸裸的我

Why nobody will oppose

为什么没有人反对

When every night the set that smart is in

当社会名流们聚集在一起

Truding at nudist parties in

夜夜在剧组里的开裸体派对

Studios

的时候

Anything goes

在这个时代 任何事情都有可能发生

When missus Ned McLean

当内德麦克莱恩太太

God bless her

愿上帝保佑她

Can get Russian reds to yes her

能够得到俄罗斯签证的时候

Then I suppose

那我想那一定是因为

Anything goes

在这个时代 任何事情都有可能发生

When Rockefeller still

当洛克菲勒仍然资助

Can hoard enough money to let max Gordon

麦斯戈登

Produce his shows

去制作他的节目时

Anything goes

在这个时代 任何事情都有可能发生

The world has gone mad today

这个世界已经变得疯狂

And good's bad today

这个世界已经好坏不分

And black's white today

这个世界已经颠倒黑白

And day's night today

这个世界已经昼夜不分

And that gent today

那个坐在街边乞讨

You gave a cent today

你给了他一分钱的乞丐

Once had several chateaux

谁能想到他曾经拥有过一座城堡

When folks who still can ride in jitneys

当那些挤着公交车的人

Find out vanderbilts and whitneys

发现范德比尔特和惠特尼

Lack baby clothes

穷到和老婆共着衣装时

Anything goes

在这个时代 任何事情都有可能发生

When Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction

如果山姆古德温

Instruct Anna sten in diction

能为为安娜斯坦指导剧本

Then Anna shows

并让她演出

Anything goes

任何事情都可能发生

When you hear that lady mendl standing up

当你听说门德尔女士能够站起来

Now turns a handspring landing up

并且翻了几个跟斗

On her toes

还可以稳稳站住

Anything goes

在这个时代 任何事情都有可能发生

Just think of those shocks you've got

好好想想你受到的震撼

And those knocks you've got

你受到的批评

And those blues you've got

你经历的沮丧

From that news you've got

你收到的消息

And those pains you've got

你所收到的痛苦

If any brains you've got

如果你长记性的话

From those little radios

从这小小的收音机里

So missus r with all her trimmings

R太太之所以带着自己的珠宝离开了

Can broadcast a bed from Simmons

是因为富兰克林将

'Cause Franklin knows

西蒙斯的丑闻告诉了她

Anything goes

在这个时代 任何事情都有可能发生