you cease to smell the steel plant 你不再闻到钢铁厂

after you've lived there for a while 你已经在那里住了一段时间后，

smoke is snow is ash are leaves that blow 烟雪是灰，是树叶吹

through the air aloft 通过空气在高处

all our houses dim their sliding 我们所有的房子昏暗的滑动

to the same soot gray style 到相同的碳烟灰色风格

and we hang our laundry out on sundays 我们挂了衣物在星期天

when they turn the furnaces off 当他们把炉子关

   

everybody's daddy works up on the line 每个人的爸爸的工作就行了

the stienbrenners and the wilczewskis 在stienbrenners和wilczewskis

have been there the longest time 一直存在的时间最长

everybody's mommy squints into the sun 每个人的妈妈眯着成太阳

sunday afternoon after all the laundry's done 毕竟洗衣的完成周日下午

   

sometimes a distant siren 有时一个遥远的汽笛

can set a dog to barking late at night 可以设置一个狗在夜间吠叫晚

then it dominos on down 那么多米诺下来

til every dog is joining in 直到每只狗的加盟

the first rumours of the layoffs 裁员的传闻第一

sang like a distant siren might 唱歌像一个遥远的汽笛威力

and we all perked up our ears 我们都竖起我们的耳朵

and paced the fence 和节奏的栅栏

of the ensuing din 随之而来的喧嚣

   

every night, we were glued to the tv news 每天晚上，我们都粘在电视新闻

at six o'clock 六点钟

cuz it was hard to tell what was real 因为真的很难说什么是真实的

and what was talk 什么是谈话

they explained about the cutbacks 他们对削减解释

all the earnest frowns 所有认真的皱眉

but what they didn't say was that the plant 但他们并没有说什么，该工厂

was slowly shutting down 慢慢关闭

   

this town is not the kind of place 这个小镇是不是那种地方

that money people go 钱人去

they make their jokes up on the tv 他们做他们的笑话上电视

about all the snow 关于所有的雪

and they're building condos downriver 他们正在建设的公寓下游

from where the plant had been 从其中植物已

but nobody really lives here 但没有人真的住在这里

now that the air is clean 现在，该空气是干净

   

the president assured us 总统向我们保证

it was all gonna trickle down 这是所有会涓滴

like it'd be raining so much money 就像它会下雨这么多钱

that we'd be sad to see the sun 我们会很伤心地看到太阳

mr. wilczewski's brother had some business 先生。 wilczewski的哥哥有一些业务

out in denver 在丹佛

so they left denver 于是它们离开了丹佛

and everybody knows they were the lucky ones 大家都知道他们是幸运儿

   

you cease to smell the steel plant 你不再闻到钢铁厂

after you'v ebeen here for a while youv ebeen这里一段时间后，