[Act I] [第一幕]

   

[PRELUDE] [序曲]

   

Desperate nerds in high offices all over the world have been known to 绝望的书呆子高办事处遍布世界各地已经知道

enact the most disgusting pieces of legislation in order to win votes 制定最恶心的法例，以争取选票

(or, in places where they don't get to vote, to control unwanted forms of （或者，在地方，他们没有得到投票，控制不必要的形式

mass behavior). 大众行为） 。

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water... 环境法律都没有通过，以保护我们的空气和水...

they were passed to get votes. Seasonal anti-smut campaigns are not 他们通过拿到票。季节性抗丝黑穗病运动不

conducted to rid our communities of moral rot...they are conducted to give 进行彻底摆脱我们的道德腐烂的社区......他们都进行得

an aura of saintliness to the office-seekers who demand them. If a few 圣洁的办公室求职者谁需要他们的光环。如果几个

key phrases are thrown into any speech (as the expert advisors explain to 关键短语被扔进任何言论（作为专家顾问解释

these various heads of state) votes will roll in, bucks will roll in, and, most 州选票）这些不同的负责人将在滚动，雄鹿将推出的，而最

importantly, power will be maintained by the groovy guy (or gal) who gets 重要的是，权力将被常规的家伙（或加仑）谁得到维持

the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various 在大多数媒体的报道为他的丑闻。当然，他的朋友在不同的

businesses will do okay too. 企业会做没事了。

All governments perpetuate themselves through the daily commission of act 各国政府通过法案的日常佣金延续自己

which a rational person might find to be stupid or dangerous (or both). Naturally, 一名理性的人可能会发现是愚蠢或危险的（或两者） 。当然，

our government is no exception... for instance, if the President (any one of them) 我国政府也不例外......例如，如果总统（他们中的任何一个）

went on TV and sat there with the flag in the background (or maybe a rustic 就在电视上，并与国旗坐在那里的背景（或者乡村

scene on a little backdrop, plus the flag) and stared sincerely into the camera 现场一个小的背景下，再加上标志） ，并真诚地盯着进入相机

and told everybody that all energy problems and all inflationary problems had been 并告诉大家，所有的能源问题，所有的通胀问题已

traced to and could be solved by the abolition of MUSIC, chances are that most 追踪到并可以通过音乐的取消来解决，有机会，最

people would believe him and think that the illegalization of this obnoxious form of 人会相信他，并认为对这个令人厌恶的形式非法化

noise pollution would be a small price to pay for the chance to buy gas like the good 噪声污染将是一个很小的代价为机会买气像好

ol' days. No way? Never happen? Records are made out of oil. All those big rock 醇天。没办法？永远不会发生？记录是出油。所有这些大石头

shows go from town to town in fuel-gobbling 45 foot trucks...and when they get there, 显示了从镇到镇燃料吞噬45英尺的卡车...... ，当他们到达那里，

they use up enormous amounts of electrical energy with their lights, their amplifiers, 他们使用了他们的灯，他们的放大器巨额电能，

their PA systems...their smoke machines. And all those synthesizers...look at all 他们的扩声系统......他们的油烟机。而所有这些合成...查看所有

the plastic they got in 'em...and the guitar picks...you name it... 他们的时间了塑料...和吉他拨片......你的名字......

JOE'S GARAGE is a stupid story about how the government is going to try to do away JOE S GARAGE是关于政府如何设法做掉一个愚蠢的故事

with music (a prime cause of unwanted mass behavior! It's sort of like a really cheap 音乐（不需要的大众行为的首要原因！这有点像一个真正的便宜

kind of high school play...the way it might have been done 20 years ago, with all the sets 种高中打球......的方式，它可能已经做了20年前，所有的组

made out of cardboard boxes and poster paint. It's also like those lectures that local 做出来的纸箱和广告颜料。它也像那些讲课的地方

narks used to give (where they show you a display of all the different ways you can get narks用来给（他们告诉你的所有不同的方式，你可以得到一个显示

wasted, with the pills leading to the weed leading to the needle, etc., etc.). 浪费，与领先的杂草通向针，等等，等等）的药丸。

If the plot of the story seems just a little bit preposterous, and if the idea of The Central 如果故事的情节似乎只是一点点荒谬的，如果中央的想法

Scrutinizer enforcing laws that haven't been passed yet makes you giggle, just be glad Scrutinizer强制执行，但没有获得通过还让你傻笑的法律，只是很高兴

you don't live in one of the cheerful little countries where, at this very moment, music is 你不是住在欢快的国家之一，在这个非常时刻，音乐是

either severely restricted...or, as it is in Iran, totally illegal. 要么严格限制......或者，不如说是在伊朗，完全是非法的。

   

[SCENE ONE] [场景一]

   

[ENTRANCE OF THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER] [参加中央SCRUTINIZER的]

   

Sometimes when you're not looking he just sneaks up on you. He looks like a cheap 有时，当你不看他只是偷偷在你身上。他看起来像一个廉价的

sort of flying saucer about five feet across with a snout-like megaphone apparatus in 排序飞碟大约五英尺宽，在猪嘴般的扩音器设备

the front with two big eyes mounted like Appletons with miniature motorized frowning 前面有两个大眼睛像装了Appletons微型电动皱眉

chrome eyebrows over them. Along the side of his disc-like body are several sets of 镀铬的眉毛他们。沿着其盘状体的侧面有几套

stupid looking headers and exhaust hoses which apparently propel him and punctuate 傻看着头，排气管，这显然推动了他，圈点

his dialogue with horrible smelling smoke rings. In the middle of his head we can see 他与可怕的气味烟圈的对话。在他的头的中间，我们可以看到

an airport wind sock and constantly twirling anemometer. The bottom of him has a landing 机场风向袋，不断捻转风速计。他的底部有一个着陆

light and three spoked wheels. In spite of all this, it is obvious that the way he really gets 光三辐条轮毂。尽管这一切，很明显，他的方式真正得到

around is by being dangled from place to place by a union guy with a dark green shirt up 解决方法是通过从一个地方被垂下由工会的家伙，深绿色的衬衫了的地方

in the roof who is eating a sandwich (pieces of which drop off every once in a while 其中到底是谁吃三明治屋顶（件在一段时间落每一次

and lodge themselves near the hole where they put the oil in that makes the cheap smoke). 并提出自己在那里放油中，使廉价的烟）的孔附近。

He hovers into view and speaks to us thusly... 他徘徊眼帘的，会说我们正是如此...

   

[CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER:] [中央SCRUTINIZER ： ]

This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws 这是中央SCRUTINIZER ...这是我的责任，执行所有的法律

that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of 还没有获得通过呢。这也是我的责任，提醒每一个人

you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be 你对你可能是各种普通的日常活动的潜在后果

performing which could eventually lead to The Death Penalty (or affect your parents' 执行这最终可能导致死刑（或影响你的父母

credit rating). Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things... 信用评级） 。我们的刑事制度是完全像你的小小兵谁做错了事情...

and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC! Our studies 其中许多人被驱赶这些罪行被一个可怕的力叫做音乐！我们的研究

have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being 已经表明，这种可怕的力量是如此危险的社会大众的法律相继

drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever! Cruel and inhuman punishments are 制定了在这个非常时刻，以阻止它永远！残忍和不人道的惩罚是

being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution 在微小的段落被仔细描述，因此他们不会与宪法抵触

(which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate THE FUTURE). （其中，本身被修改以便适应将来） 。

I bring you now a special presentation to show what can happen to you if you choose 我给你现在是一个特别介绍显示可能发生在你身上，如果你选择

a career in MUSIC . . . The WHITE ZONE is for loading and unloading only. . . if you 职业生涯中的音乐。 。 。在白色区域是用于装载和卸载只。 。 。如果你

have to load or unload, go to the WHITE ZONE... you 'll love it... it 's a way of life . . . 要加载或卸载，到白区......你会爱上它......它是生活的SA方法。 。 。

This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...The WHITE ZONE is for loading and unloading 这是中央SCRUTINIZER ...的白色区域是装卸

only... [etc.] 只... [等]