hi, geo: 歌-Somebody That I Used To Know

伴我生活的是西洋流行音樂，好多首旋律耳熟能詳，但搞不清楚誰唱的、歌名、內容是啥。剛剛看了一個有趣的MV-Somebody That I Used to Know，找了歌詞，該網站的第一句話：「愛的反面不是恨，是淡漠」。

此MV有不少模仿，身為一個科學人，及朝向教育研究的我最讚賞這個：Some Study That I Used to Know.
翻譯很好的TED-ED，留檔。

Now and then I think of what I learned in high school
三不五時我都會想到高中時學的東西
Like AP Bio an-d British Literature
像是生物學和英國文學
Is that igneous or metamorphic?
哪個是火成岩哪個是變質岩？
I don’t need to write in Iambic.
我不需要用抑揚音格來寫東西
And I’ll admit I don’t know shit about Millard Fillmore
我也承認我對Millard Fillmore*根本一無所知
Why did I have to learn this stuff?
為什麼我要學這些東西？
It has never come in handy
根本從來都用不上阿
Never used it for nothing.
從來都沒有用處
Why did we read The Scarlett Letter?
為什麼要讀The Scarlett Letter*？
Puritans are boring
清教徒超無趣
Even when one is a slut
即使是蕩婦也一樣
there’s actually one thing I still know:
但我還記得一件事
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney發明了軋棉機*
def-nitly do not need that though
雖然我根本不需要這個知識
Now it’s just a study that I used to know
現在那些東西早已被我拋在腦後
Now it’s just a study that I used to know
現在那些東西早已被我拋在腦後
Now and then I think of all the things I taught you
三不五時我都會想起交給你的知識
Every handout with a Farside Cartoon appropo
每張講義都有Farside Cartoon appropo*
You don’t want to live that way
你不想要走這條路
Forgetting every word I say
也忘了我跟你講的金玉良言
You said you’d never let it go
你說你永遠會謹記在心
I guess mnemonic devices just weren’t enough for you though
我想任何幫助記憶的東西對你根本就沒意義吧
You really freaking piss me off
你真的讓我超火大
I worked so hard to teach you something
我這麼認真的教導你一切
Now you don’t kno-w nothing.
現在你全都給我拋在腦後
What does the co-nch symbolize?
海螺*的象徵意義是甚麼？
Or anything beyond the first three digits of Pi.
或者任何超越前三個數字的圓周率
‘ And what about SohCahToa?
還記得SohCahToa*嗎？
Or A-sexual reproduction of the Protozoa?
或是有性繁殖的原生動物？
I guess you didn’t need that though.
我想你也不需要這些東西吧
Now it’s just a study that you used to know
現在那些東西早已被你拋在腦後
Now it’s just a study that you used to know
現在那些東西早已被你拋在腦後
註：
*美國第十三任總統
*1850年美國作家Nathaniel Hawthorne的經典小說
*推動工業革命的重要機器
*應是美國當地卡通漫畫
*William Golding名著小說蒼蠅王中的重要象徵
*幫助計算三角形角度的小撇步