No, the tide is with the entrenched mindset,

从未他们固步自封抱残守缺
with values that are still unexamined.

坚守着未经证实的价值观
But I will not be coerced.

但我不会妥协
I will not be coerced.

我不会妥协
And neither will Hailsham.

黑尔舍姆也不会
I didn't understand why, after all her teasing,

我不明白为何露丝曾多番取笑汤米
Ruth would decide that Tommy was the boy she liked most of all.

最后却认定他就是自己最喜欢的男孩
They say girls are always mean to the boys they like.

有人说女孩总是对喜欢的男孩百般刁难
So maybe Ruth had liked him all along.

所以露丝也许一直以来都喜欢他
Maybe I should have teased him, too.

也许我也该取笑他的
I kept hoping they would separate,

我一直希望他们能分手
like the other childhood and teenage romances at the school.

就像学校里其他青梅竹马的情侣一样