爱华网拜读了博友转贴的“中国 还需要再唱《国际歌》吗？”深有感悟。现将英文版本的国际歌也贴上来。
Stand up, all victims ofoppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Don't cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all
Chorus:
So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on
The Internationale
Unites the world in song
So comrades come rally
For this is the time and place
The international ideal
Unites the human race
Let no one build walls to divide us
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
We'll live together or we'll die alone
In our world poisoned by exploitation
Those who have taken, now they must give
And end the vanity of nations
We've but one Earth on which to live
And so begins the final drama
In the streets and in the fields
We stand unbowed before their armour
We defy their guns and shields
When we fight, provoked by their aggression
Let us be inspired by like and love
For though they offer us concessions
Change will not come from above
Arise ye prisoners of starvation
Arise ye toilers of the earth
For reason thunders new creation
`Tis a better world in birth.
Never more traditions\' chains shall bind us
Arise ye toilers no more in thrall
The earth shall rise on new foundations
We are but naught we shall be all.
Then comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale
Unites the human race. (bis)
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We\'ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
Then comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale
Unites the human race. (bis)
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we\'ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They\'ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We\'ll shoot the generals on our own side.
Then comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale
Unites the human race. (bis)
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
国际歌歌词的原始版本是欧仁·鲍迪埃写的法语词，文中下面的那个Ariseye···的版本就是根据那个法语最初版翻译的，可以称之为“英语传统版”，文字也很古朴。而上面红字的那个版本是近年的红色摇滚歌手比利·布拉格重新填的词，歌词比较现代，可以称之为“英语现代版”。我个人更喜欢比利·布拉格的版本，因为那个传统版实在是太难唱了···
