作曲 : They Might Be Giants
Iron is a metal, you see it every day
铁是一种你每天都见到的金属
Oxygen, eventually will make it rust away
氧气终究将它锈蚀
Carbon in its ordinary form is coal
通常碳以煤的形式存在
Crush it together and diamonds are born
压碎它之后钻石就诞生了
Come on, come on and meet the elements
来吧，来结识一下元素们吧
May I introduce you to our friends, the elements?
让我介绍一下我的朋友，元素们
Like a box of paints that are mixed to make every shade
如同一个颜料盒组合出每一种颜色
They either combine to make a chemical compound
他们结合形成化合物
Or stand alone as they are
或者单独形成单质
Neon's a gas that lights up the sign for a pizza place
氖是点亮披萨店霓虹的气体
The coins that you pay with are copper, nickel and zinc
而你付的硬币由铜、镍、锌制成
Silicon and oxygen make concrete bricks and glass
硅和氧是混凝土砖和玻璃的原料
Now add some gold and silver for some pizza place class
加点金银来装饰披萨店
Come on, come on and meet the elements
来吧，来结识一下元素们吧
I think you should check out the ones they call the elements
你应该去看看那些元素们
Like a box of paints that are mixed to make every shade
如同一个颜料盒组合出每一种颜色
They either combine to make a chemical compound
他们结合形成化合物
Or stand alone as they are
或者单独形成单质
Team up with other elements
当一个元素与其他元素结合时
Making compounds when they combine
成为化合态形成化合物
Or make up a simple element
或者形成游离态
Formed out of atoms of the one kind
成为只有一种元素构成的单质
Balloons are full of helium
气球充满了氦气
And so is every star
每一颗星星也是如此
Stars are mostly hydrogen
星星主要由氢元素构成
Which may someday fill your car
而氢总有一天会成为你的车燃料
And who let in all these elephants?
那么谁构成了大象？
Did you know that elephants are made of elements?
知道吗，大象也由元素构成
Elephants are mostly made of four elements
大象主要由四种元素构成
And every living thing is mostly made of four elements
生物也主要由四种元素构成
Plants, bugs, birds, fish, bacteria and men
植物，昆虫，鸟类，鱼类，细菌和人类
Are mostly carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen
主要由碳、氢、氮、氧四种元素组成
Come on, come on and meet the elements
来吧，来结识一下元素们吧
You and I are complicated but we're made of elements
你我虽然复杂，但都由元素组成
Like a box of paints that are mixed to make every shade
如同一个颜料盒组合出每一种颜色
They either combine to make a chemical compound
他们结合形成化合物
Or stand alone as they are
或者单独形成单质
Team up with other elements
当一个元素与其他元素结合时
Making compounds when they combine
成为化合态形成化合物
Or make up a simple element
或者形成游离态
Formed out of atoms of the one kind
成为只有一种元素构成的单质
Come on, come on and meet the elements
来吧，来结识一下元素们吧
Check out the ones they call the elements
去看看那些元素们
Like a box of paints that are mixed to make every shade
如同一个颜料盒组合出每一种颜色
They either combine to make a chemical compound
他们结合形成化合物
Or stand alone as they are
或者单独形成单质