Monthly Archive for March, 2005

利物浦的路爾斯．加西亞（左）慶祝射入第二球的一刻。（路透社）

呵～欠～昨日歐聯賽事十分精采，但是今晚的比賽卻悶得教人直打瞌睡！雖然阿仙奴主場小勝拜仁慕尼黑一比零，但是恨錯難返，一比零的賽果也彌補不了首回合輸一比三的劣勢。皇馬作客祖雲達斯，在這一刻卻要進入加時（兩回合計雙方打和一比一），我實在沒有時間及精神來看了！

不過最估不到的，是利物浦作客德國利華古遜，竟然大勝三比一－－四隊出線十六強的英格蘭球隊，賽前最被看低的是利物浦，但是勝負差最大的竟是這隊球隊！不過英格蘭四軍，現時只剩下兩隊，實在不是味兒．．．

在這一刻，我個人認為最可看好的隊伍，是里昂、車路士、利物浦。且看下回分解吧！

《哈利波特》第六集－－「哈利波特與混血王子」（暫譯）－－的封面，終於在今天面世。左為「兒童版」，右為「成人版」。第六集的出版日期定於六月十六日，各位哈利波特迷，準備好了沒有？

終於將Andrew Porter所譯的英文歌詞，全部打出來了。可能有點長，大家不要介意．．．

HAGEN
Hoiho! Hoihohoho!
You Gibich vassals,
Answer my call.
Waken! Waken!
Hear me! Hear me!
Arm all our land!
Bring your weapons!
Mighty weapons!
Sharp and bright!
Foes are here!
Foes! Waken! Waken!
Hoiho! Hoihohoho!

THE VASSALS
I hear the horn!
Who sounds the alarm?
We come with our arms!
We come with our weapons!
Hagen! Hagen!
Hoiho! Hoiho!
What’s the danger here?
Say what foe is near!
Who comes to fight?
Is Gunther in need?
We come with our weapons,
With weapons of might.
Hoiho! Ho! Hagen!

HAGEN
Come to my call,
and arm yourselves!
Gunther soon shall return;
his wife join us today.

THE VASSALS
What is his need?
Who is his foe?

HAGEN
His proud, fiery wife
join us today.

THE VASSALS
And is he pursued
by furious kinsmen?

HAGEN
No one follows them;
they are alone.

THE VASSALS
Then his danger is past?
And his fight has been won?
Tell us all!

HAGEN
The hero has gained him
a bride;
Siegfried, his friend
saved him from harm!

ONE VASSAL
Then why have you called us together?

TEN OTHERS
Then why have we been called?

HAGEN
Sacred oxen
must be slaughtered;
on Wotan’s altar
pour forth their blood!

ONE VASSAL
Then, Hagen, what would you have us do?

EIGHT VASSALS
What would you have us do?

FOUR OTHERS
What should we do?

ALL
What would you have us do?

HAGEN
Take a boar as offering,
kill it for Froh;
and a goat in its prime
strike down for Donner!
Sheep should then
be slaughtered for Fricka,
and then she will smile on this wedding!

THE VASSELS
After these offerings,
what next should we do?

HAGEN
Your drinkhorns take,
and ask your women
to fill with wine,
until they run full!

THE VASSALS
Our drinkhorns in hand,
what ought we then to do?

HAGEN
Seize them, and drink
till you can drink no more!
So shall our gods be honoured,
and they will grant us their blessings!

THE VASSALS
Glad times have come,
come to our Rhine,
when Hagen, grim Hagen,
with laughter can shine!
Our hedge’s thorn
pricks us no more;
our bridal herald
calls us to wine!

HAGEN
Now stop your laughter,
faithful vassals!
Receive Gunther’s bride!
Brunnhilde soon shall be here!

Honour your lady,
come to her aid;
if she is wronged,
you must revenge her!

THE VASSALS
Hail! Hail!
Be welcome! Be welcome!

Be welcome, Gunther!
Hail! Hail!