All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats - 电源所有你大的人，你们谁夸你的壮举 -

Politicians and entrepreneurs. 政治家和企业家。

Can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep? 你可以保护你的呼吸在晚上，你睡了吗？

Keep your heart beating steady and sure? 保持你的心脏跳动踏实？

As you lie in your bed, does the thought haunt your head 当你躺在你的床上，没有想到困扰着你的头

That you’re really, rather small? 你是真的，而小？

If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all. 如果有一件事我知道，这辈子：我们是乞丐都。

   

All you champions of science and rulers of men, 所有你冠军的男性科学和统治者，

Can you summon the sun from its sleep? 你可以召唤从睡眠太阳？

Does the earth seek your counsel on how fast to spin? 那大地征求你如何快速旋转的律师？

Can you shut up the gates of the deep? 你可以闭嘴深之门？

Don’t you know that all things hang, as if by a string, 难道你不知道，一切都挂起，仿佛一个字符串，

O’er the darkness - poised to fall? 光彩的黑暗 - 蓄势下跌呢？

If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all. 如果有一件事我知道，这辈子：我们是乞丐都。

   

All you big shots that swagger and stride with conceit, 所有你大款的招摇和步幅与自负，

Did you devise how your frame would be formed? 你如何设计你的框架将形成？

If you’d be raised in a palace, or live out in the streets, 如果您想在皇宫待提高，还是住在街头，

Did you choose the place or the hour you’d be born? 你选择的地方，或者你出生的时辰？

Tell me what can you claim? Not a thing - not your name! 告诉我你能索赔？不顺心的事情 - 而不是你的名字！

Tell me if you can recall just one thing, 告诉我，如果你还记得一件事，

That’s not a gift in this life? 这不是这辈子的礼物？

   

Can you hear what’s been said? 你能听到有人说的？

Can you see now that everything’s grace after all? 可你毕竟现在看到的一切的恩典？

If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all. 如果有一件事我知道，这辈子：我们是乞丐都。