when push comes to shove.

如果你鼓励他的话
With 1833 I start looking at all these registers,

我开始阅读1833年后的花名册
just for a day, that'll do it,

只读了一天那就够了
but I look at all the births

看了出生受洗
and all the baptisms and all the marriages and all the deaths.

婚礼和葬礼的记录
And what happens is this proud signature of the schoolteacher.

我看到的是一个个学校老师华丽的签名
He becomes this sort of, not obligatory,

尽管这不是老师的义务
but the chosen person to say,

老师总被选作证明人说
"I have seen this baby,"

"我看到这个孩子了"
"I have seen this couple,"

"我见证这对夫妇"
"I have seen this corpse."

"我见证这具尸体"
And does that tell you something?

这意味着什么呢