Chinese Children’s song 造飛機
造飛機
Zao4 fei1 ji1
Build airplanes / Build an airplane /Make airplanes
造飛機造飛機 來到青草地
zao4 fei1 ji1, zao4 fei1 ji1, lai2 dao4 qing1 cao3 di4
Build airplanes; build airplanes. Come to the green grass land.
蹲下來蹲下來 我做推進器
dun1 xia4 lai2, dun1 xia4 lai2, wo3 zuo4 tui1 jin4 qi4
I Squat down here; I squat down here. I work as the propeller.
蹲下去蹲下去 你做飛機翼
dun1 xia4 qu4, dun1 xia4 qu4, ni3 zuo4 fei1 ji1 yi4
You squat down there; you squat down there. You work as the airplane wings.
彎著腰彎著腰 飛機做得奇
wan1 zhe5 yao1, wan1 zhe5 yao1, fei1 ji1 zuo4 de5 qi2
Bend over the waist; bend over the waist. Our airplane was made magically.
飛上去飛上去 飛到白雲裡
fei1 shang4 qu4, fei1 shang4 qu4, fei1 dao4 bai2 yun2 li3
Fly up there; fly up there. Fly up to the inside of white clouds.
Translated by Shu
This is a lovely, upbeat song by the same name 造飛機, an interesting popular song which also uses a few lines from the children’s 造飛機 song.
造飛機
唐禹哲
Tang Yu zhe
我们说好分开多远都要再见
wo3 men1 shuo1 hao3 fen1 kai1 duo1 yuan3 du1 yao4 zai4 jian4
We agreed that no matter how far away apart we are, we all have to see each other again.
回到旧日的山丘看一看从前
hui2 dao4 jiu4 ri4 de5 shan1 qiu1 kan4 yi2 kan4 cong2 qian2
Return to the old mountain hill and take a look at the past.
阳光还是灿烂的夏天
yang2 guang1 huan2 shi4 can4 lan4 de5 xia4 tian1
The sunshine still is the splendid summer.
照出泪光闪闪的笑脸
zhao4 chu1 lei4 guang1 shan3 shan3 de5 xiao4 lian3
The sunshine reflects sparkling tears of the smiling faces.
满天乌云渐渐不见的画面
man3 tian1 wu1 yun2 jian4 jian4 bu2 jian4 de5 hua4 mian4
The picturesque scene of all sky full of black clouds gradually disappears.
仿佛是画出了美好的明天
fang3 fo2 shi4 hua4 chu1 liao5 mei3 hao3 de5 ming2 tian1
It seems it is painting out the beautiful and nice tomorrow.
就算遇到伤心在眼前
jiu4 suan4 yu4 dao4 shang1 xin1 zai4 yan3 qian2
Even though we encounter sad experiences right in front of our eyes,
也要努力把梦想实现
ye3 yao4 nu3 li4 ba3 meng4 xiang3 shi2 xian4
We have to work hard to realize the dreams.
造飞机 造飞机
zao4 fei1 ji1 zao4 fei1 ji1
Build airplanes; build airplanes.
曾经欢笑青草地
ceng2 jing1 huan1 xiao3 qing1 cao3 di4
Once we rejoiced and laughed on the green grass land.
有过放手飞翔的自由
you3 guo4 fang4 shou3 fei1 xiang2 de5 zi4 you2
Had the freedom of flying with releasing (free) hands.
才会回来重逢的时候
cai2 hui4 hui2 lai2 zhong2 feng2 de5 shi2 hou4
Then, we will have the time of reunion.
飞上去 飞上去
fei1 shang4 qu4 fei1 shang4 qu4
Fly up there; fly up there.
飞到蓝天白云里
fei1 dao4 lan2 tian1 bai2 yun2 li3
Fly up to the inside of blue sky and white cloud.
风中睁开启程的双手
feng1 zhong1 zheng1 kai1 qi3 cheng2 de5 shuang1 shou3
In the wind, we open up the pair of hands of the starting journey.
带着祝福 我们一直往前走
dai4 zhuo3 zhu4 fu2 wo3 men1 yi4 zhi2 wang3 qian2 zou3.
Bring the blessing, and we move forward straightly.
Translated by Shu
Quotes of flying and airplanes:
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be? – it is the same the angels breathe. ~Mark Twain, “Roughing It”
You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky. ~Amelia Earhart
How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground – seconds away – thousands of miles away. ~Charles A. Lindbergh
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. ~Orson Welles
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. ~James Dickey
O! for a horse with wings! ~William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
The butterfly is a flying flower… ~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination. ~Wilbur Wright
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. ~Wendell Willkie
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don’t have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights…. Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven. ~William T. Piper
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ~Alexander Chase, “Perspectives,” 1966
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. ~Titus Maccius Plautus
Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin. ~K.O. Eckland, “Footprints On Clouds”
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The bluebird carries the sky on his back. ~Henry David Thoreau
If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport. ~George Winters
The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. ~Walter Raleigh
Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite. ~Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau
The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche. ~Cesar Pelli
Why fly? Simple. I’m not happy unless there’s some room between me and the ground. ~Richard Bach
This is the first convention of the space age – where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. ~Author Unknown
I never liked riding in helicopters because there’s a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part. ~John Wittenborn
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours – one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. ~Neil McElroy
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ~Leonardo Da Vinci (Thanks, Tommy)
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. ~Bill Gates
Given angel’s wings, where might you fly?
In what sweet heaven might you find your love?
Unwilling to be bound, where might you move,
Lost between the wonder and the why?…
~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ~Louis J. Helle, Jr., Spring in Washington
When you think about flying, it’s nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you’re sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn’t make any sense. ~David Letterman
These quotes come from: http://www.quotegarden.com/flying.html
Airplane Lyrics B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams