I've left my beautiful Tonkinoise

我离开了美丽的东京情人啊
for you my charming Francois.

为了你我亲爱的法兰西爱人
For you are the most beautiful of the isle.

因为你才是最美的所在
Far from you I was not at peace."

远离你的我永远无法岁月静好"
More bourgeois music lovers

更多喜欢小资音乐的情侣们
heard orchestral works by composers like Ravel and Debussy,

开始听由拉威尔和德彪西谱曲的管弦乐歌曲
who were fascinated by the sounds of the Orient.

他们两人对东方音乐尤其着迷
The colonies also came to suggest new fashions.

殖民地也带来了新的潮流
Oriental silks and Levantine frocks,

东方丝绸和利凡廷连衫裙
popular in women's clothing in the early twentieth century,

在十二世纪前期在妇女们中风靡一时
owed much to this fascination with the exotic.

这些都是异国情调的魅力
Even the goods that people bought

甚至在日常商品中