梁静茹 Liang Jing Ru / Fish Leong /Jasmine Leong
会呼吸的痛 – Hui hu xi de tong Breathable pain
在东京铁塔 第一次眺望
zai4 dong1 jing1 tie3 ta3 di4 yi2 ci4 tiao4 wang4
At Toyko Tower, the first time I was overlooking
在（at)东京(Toyko)铁(iron)塔(tower) 第(the)一(first)次(time)眺望(to survey the scene from an elevated position)
看灯火模仿 坠落的星光
kan4 deng1 huo3 mo2 fang3 zhui4 luo4 de5 xing1 guang1
Looking at the city light mimicking the falling star light
看(see)灯火(lamp lights)模仿(minick) 坠落的(falling)星光(star light)
我终於到达 但却更悲伤
wo3 zhong1 yu2 dao4 da2 dan4 que4 geng4 bei1 shang1
I finally arrived, but with more sorrow
我(I)终於(finally)到达(arrive) 但(but)却(yet)更(even more)悲伤(sad)
一个人完成 我们的梦想
yi2 ge4 ren2 wan2 cheng2 wo3 men1 de5 meng4 xiang3
One person accomplished our dream
一(One)个(measure word)人(person)完成(finiih) 我们的(our)梦想(dream)
你总说 时间还很多
ni3 zong3 shuo1 shi2 jian1 huan2 hen3 duo1
You always said “There is still a lot of time
你(you)总(always)说(say) 时间(time)还(till)很多(many)
你可以等我
ni3 ke3 yi3 deng3 wo3
You can wait for me”
你(you)可以(able to)等(wait)我(me)
以前我不懂得
yi3 qian2 wo3 bu4 dong3 de2
Before I did not understand
以前(before)我(I)不(not)懂得(understand)
未必明天 就有以后
wei4 bi4 ming2 tian1 jiu4 you3 yi3 hou4
Not necessarily there will be future after tomorrow
未必(not necessary)明天(tomorrow) 就(then)有(have)以后(afterwards/later)
想念是会呼吸的痛
xiang3 nian4 shi4 hui4 hu1 xi1 de5 tong4
Missing is a breathable pain
想念(missing)是(is)会(will)呼吸的(breathing)痛(pain)
它活在我身上所有角落
ta1 huo2 zai4 wo3 shen1 shang4 suo3 you3 jiao3 luo4
It lives in all the corners of my body
它(it)活(live)在(in)我(I)身上(body)所有(all)角落(corner)
哼你爱的歌会痛
heng1 ni3 ai4 de5 ge1 hui4 tong4
Humming the songs you love will hurt
哼(hum)你(you)爱(love)的(connecting particle)歌(song)会(will)痛(hurt)
看你的信会痛 连沉默也痛
kan4 ni3 de5 xin4 hui4 tong4 lian2 chen2 mo4 ye3 tong4
Read your letters pains me, even silent hurts
看(see)你的(your)信(letter)会(will)痛(hurt) 连(even)沉默(silence)也(also)痛(hurt)
遗憾是会呼吸的痛
yi2 han4 shi4 hui4 hu1 xi1 de5 tong4
Regret is a breathable pain
遗憾(regret)是(is)会(will)呼吸(breathe)的(connecting particle)痛(pain)
它流在血液中来回滚动
ta1 liu2 zai3 xue3 yi4 zhong1 lai2 hui2 gun3 dong4
It rolls and moves back and forth in blood
它(it)流(flow)在(in)血液(blood)中(within)来回(to and fro)滚(roll)动(move)
后悔不贴心会痛
hou4 hui3 bu4 tie1 xin1 hui4 tong4
Regretting about not getting close to heart pains me
后悔(regret)不(not)贴(close to)心(heart)会(will)痛(hurt)
恨不懂你会痛
hen4 bu4 dong3 ni3 hui4 tong4
Hating about not understanding you pains me
恨(hate)不懂(not understand)你(you)会(will)痛(hurt)
想见不能见最痛
liang3 jing4 bu4 neng2 jian4 zui4 tong4
Wanting to see you but can’t see you pains me the most
想见(would like to see)不能(not able)见(see)最(the most)痛(painful)
没看你脸上 张扬过哀伤
mei2 kan4 ni3 lian3 shang4 zhang1 yang2 guo4 ai1 shang1
Did not see sorrow came cross your face
没看(did not see)你(you)脸上(on the face) 张扬(to display ostentatiously)过(past tense particle)哀伤(sadness)
那是种多么 寂寞的倔强
na4 shi4 zhong3 duo1 me5 ji2 mo4 de5 jue4 jiang4
That kind of stubborn is so lonely
那(that)是(is)种(kind)多么(so) 寂寞的(alone/lonely)倔强(stubbornness)
你拆了城墙 让我去流浪
ni3 chai1 liao5 cheng2 qiang2 rang4 wo3 qu4 liu2 lang4
You dissembled the city wall and let me go wandering
你(you)拆了(tore down)城墙(wall) 让(let)我(me)去(to)流浪(travel)
在原地等我 把自己捆绑
zai4 yuan2 di4 deng3 wo3 ba3 zi4 ji3 kun3 bang3
At the original place waiting for me, I tied myself up
在(at)原(original)地(place)等(wait for)我(me) 把(particle marking the following noun as a direct object )自己(self)捆绑(tie up)
你没说 你也会软弱
ni3 mei2 shuo1 ni3 ye3 hui4 ruan3 ruo4
You did not say that you became weak too
你(you)没(not)说(say) 你(you)也(also)会(will)软弱(weak)
需要依赖我
xu1 yao4 yi1 lai4 wo3
You needed to rely on me
需要(need)依赖(rely on)我(me)
我就装不晓得
wo3 jiu4 zhuang1 bu4 xiao3 de2
Then I pretended that I did not know
我(I)就(then)装不晓得(pretend not knowing)
自由移动 自我地过
zi4 you2 yi2 dong4 zi4 wo3 di5 guo4
I moved freely and lived by myself
自由(freely)移动(moe) 自我(self)地(particle after adverb)过(pass)
想念是会呼吸的痛
xiang3 nian4 shi4 hui4 hu1 xi1 de5 tong4
Missing is a breathable pain
它活在我身上所有角落
ta1 huo2 zai4 wo3 shen1 shang4 suo3 you3 jiao3 luo4
It lives in all the corners of my body
哼你爱的歌会痛
heng1 ni3 ai4 de5 ge1 hui4 tong4
Humming the songs that you love pains me
看你的信会痛 连沉默也痛
kan4 ni3 de5 xin4 hui4 tong4 lian2 chen2 mo4 ye3 tong4
Read your letters pains me, even the silence does.
遗憾是会呼吸的痛
yi2 han4 shi4 hui4 hu1 xi1 de5 tong4
Regret is a breathable pain
它流在血液中来回滚动
ta1 liu2 zai3 xue3 yi4 zhong1 lai2 hui2 gun3 dong4
It flows in the blood rolling and moving back and forth
后悔不贴心会痛
hou4 hui3 bu4 tie1 xin1 hui4 tong4
Regretting about not getting close to heart pains me
恨不懂你会痛
hen4 bu4 dong3 ni3 hui4 tong4
Hating about not understanding you pains me
想见不能见最痛
liang3 jing4 bu4 neng2 jian4 zui4 tong4
Wanting to see you, but I am not able to see you, and it is the most painful pain
我发誓不再说谎了
wo3 fa1 shi4 bu2 zai4 shuo1 huang3 liao5
I swear that I am not going to lie again
我(I)发誓(swear)不再(not again)说(tell)谎(lie)了(past tense particle)
多爱你就会抱你多紧的
duo1 ai4 ni3 jiu4 hui4 bao4 ni3 duo1 jin3 de5
Love you so much will hug you so tightly
多(how much)爱(love)你(you)就(then)会(will)抱(hold)你(you)多(how)紧(tight)的(particle)
我的微笑都假了
wo3 de5 wei2 xiao4 du1 jia3 liao5
My smile all became fake
我的(my)微笑(smile)都(all)假(fake)了(past tense marker)
灵魂像飘浮着 你在就好了
ling2 hun2 xiang4 piao1 fu2 zhe5 ni3 zai4 jiu4 hao3 liao5
My soul is like floating, if you were here then everything would be alright
灵魂(soul)像(is like)飘浮(float)着(v+ing) 你(you)在(at her)就(then)好(good)了(particle)
我发誓不让你等候
wo3 fa1 shi4 bu2 rang4 ni3 deng3 hou4
I swear that I won’t let you wait
我(I)发誓(swear)不(not)让(let)你(you)等候(wait)
陪你做想做的无论什么
pei2 ni3 zuo4 xiang3 zuo4 de5 wu2 lun4 shi2 me5
I will be with you for whatever you wanna do
陪(accompany)你(you)做(do)想做(would like to do)的(connecting particle)无论(no matter)什么(what)
我越来越像贝壳
wo3 yue4 lai2 yue4 xiang4 bei4 ke2
I am more and more like a seashell
我(I)越来(the more)越(the more)像(am like)贝壳(shells)
怕心被人触碰 你回来那就好了
pa4 xin1 bei4 ren2 chu4 peng4 ni3 hui2 lai2 na4 jiu4 hao3 liao5
I fear that I would be touched by others. If you would come back then all will be alright
怕(fear)心(heart)被(V+ed)人(people)触碰(touch) 你(you)回来(come back)那(then)就(then)好(good)了(sentence final particle)
能重来那就好了
na2 chun2 lai2 jiu4 hao3 liao5
If we can start over then everything will be alright
能(able to)重来(start over)那(then)就(then)好(good)了(sentence final particle)
Translated by Shu
Singer Fish Leong background information:
Fish Leong (Chinese: 梁静茹; pinyin: Liáng Jìngrú; born June 16, 1978 in Bahau, Seremban, Malaysia with family roots in Shunde, Guangdong, China) is the stage name of Jasmine Leong, a Malaysian Chinese singer in the Mandarin pop scene who has had much success in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan. Leong, known as “the Queen of Love Songs”, is famous for her love-themed ballads, many of which have become popular karaoke hits.
She started her career in Taiwan, in October 1997, after joining Rock Records of Taiwan. It was then that she adopted the name “Fish”, because the last character of her name “茹” sounds like “fish” (魚) in Cantonese. Her debut album Yí Yè Zhǎng Dà (一夜長大) was released after two years, only to encounter an earthquake on the day of the album launch promotion (21 September 1999). Her career only managed to take off after the successful launch of her second album Yǒng Qì (勇氣), which means courage. The hit song “Courage” about courage in love and especially in forbidden relationships. From then on, Leong has continued to sing love songs about the different stages of relationships, from first love in “Quiet Summer” to life after a breakup in “Happy Breakup” (分手快樂). Friendship is also recursive within her songs.
Read more about Fish Leong, read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Leong
Quotes about breathe and breathing:
A healthy mind has an easy breath. ~Author Unknown
If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston
Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life. ~Giovanni Papini
Smile, breathe and go slowly. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living. ~Author Unknown
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Walking through the house at night is wonderful to me; a symphony of breath, each person a separate instrument as they collectively breathe in time to the metronome of life itself. ~Edwin Leap, www.edwinleap.com
To one who has been long in city pent,
‘Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, – to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
~John Keats, Sonnet XIV
He lives most life whoever breathes most air. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within. ~Author Unknown
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm
You know that our breathing is the inhaling and exhaling of air. The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart, so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart. Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart. And so, having collected your mind within you, lead it into the channel of breathing through which air reaches the heart and, together with this inhaled air, force your mind to descend into the heart and to remain there. ~Nicephorus the Solitary
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. ~William E. Simon
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Fear is excitement without the breath. ~Fritz Perls
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. ~L. Frank Baum
Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? ~Mary Oliver
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? ~Mary Oliver
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike
We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. ~Laurence Binyon
Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself. ~Carla Melucci Ardito
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity. ~Rumi
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Oprah Winfrey
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. Erma Bombeck
In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine
We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. ~Alexander Lowen
I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy! ~Kris Carr
Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
These quotes are from: http://www.quotegarden.com/breathing.html
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