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陈明韶，南方二重唱
Chen Mingshao，Nan fang er zhong chang
浮云游子
Fu yun you zi
Floating cloud traveler
肩负了一只白背包 踏着快捷的脚步
jian1 fu4 le5 yi2 zhi3 bai2 bei4 bao1, ta4 zhe5 kuai4 jie2 de5 jiao3 bu4
Shouldering a white backpack, with swift footsteps I march on
不知道什么是天涯 不知道什么叫离愁
bu4 zhi1 dao4 shen2 me5 shi4 tian1 ya2, bu4 zhi1 dao4 shen2 me5 jiao4 li2 chou2
I don’t know what is the end of the sky and I don’t know what is the sorrow of parting either.
遥远的路途无穷尽 披星戴月向前程
yao2 yuan3 de5 lu4 tu2 wu2 qiong2 jin4, pi1 xing1 dai4 yue4 xiang4 qian2 cheng2
The distant journey is endless. I travel through night and day to the future.
唱起了旧时的山歌 想起了故乡的家园
chang4 qi3 le5 jiu4 shi2 de5 shan1 ge1, xiang3 qi3 le5 gu4 xiang1 de5 jia1 yuan2
I sing old time’s mountain song and remember the home of my hometown
浮云一样的游子 行囊装满了乡愁
fu2 yun2 yi2 yang4 de5 you2 zi3， xing2 nang3 zhuang1 man3 le5 xiang1 chou2
( I am like) a floating cloud like traveler with hometown nostalgia packed in the traveling bag
虽然努力往前走 乡愁一样入梦中
sui1 ran2 nu3 li4 wang3 qian2 zou3， xiang1 chou2 yi2 yang4 ru4 meng4 zhong1
Although with great effort I walk forward, the nostalgia of hometown still came to my dreams.
Translated by Shu
Quotes about clouds:
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
“The sun always shines above the clouds.”
― Paul F. Davis
“I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.”
― W.B. Yeats
“Aren’t the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton… I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by… If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations… What do you think you see, Linus?”
“Well, those clouds up there look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean… That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor… And that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the stoning of Stephen… I can see the apostle Paul standing there to one side…”
“Uh huh… That’s very good… What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?”
“Well, I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I changed my mind!”
― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“Consider yourself. I want you to imagine a scene from your childhood. Pick something evocative… Something you can remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you WEREN’T there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Every bit of you has been replaced many times over… The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilse simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.”
― Steve Grand
“Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.”
― Iimani David
These great quotes about cloud come from:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/clouds
Beautiful clouds
How to paint clouds technique – Mural Joe