Mandarin Chinese children’s song 捕鱼歌 bu yu ge Fishing Song: lyrics, pinyin, English translation, quotes of fishing, fish, fisherman, Craig Campbell Fish with lyrics, funny fishing video

捕鱼歌
bǔ yú gē
Fishing song

白浪滔滔我不怕,
bái làng tāo tāo Wǒ bù pà
Torrential white waves, I am not afraid of

掌起舵儿往前划;
zhǎng qǐ duò ér wǎng qián huá,
Holding up the rudder and rowing forward

撒网下水到鱼家,
sā wǎngxià shuǐ dào yú jiā
Cast nets into the water to the home of fish

捕条大鱼笑哈哈。
bǔ tiáo dàyú xiào hāhā
Capture a big fish, laughing ha ha ha

Translated by Shu

Quotes of fisherman, fishing and fish:

There are two types of fisherman – those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. ~Author Unknown

Fishing is the sport of drowning worms. ~Author Unknown

[T]his planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish. ~Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work. ~Author Unknown

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing

I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. ~Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. ~A.K. Best

The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing. ~Babylonian Proverb

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. ~John Steinbeck

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. ~Author Unknown

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. ~Author Unknown

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau

All fishermen are liars; it’s an occupational disease with them like housemaid’s knee or editor’s ulcers. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949

An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won’t let him do it at home. ~Author Unknown

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson

We ask a simple question
And that is all we wish:
Are fishermen all liars?
Or do only liars fish?
~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. ~Dave Barry

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O’Neil, 1965

The best way to a fisherman’s heart is through his fly. ~Author Unknown

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don’t know what’s on the other end. Your imagination is under there. ~Robert Altman

There quotes come from: http://www.quotegarden.com/fishing.html

Craig campbell-fish with lyrics

Funny Fishing…..

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Viewers’ reaction and comments, shocked, disappointed and greatly surprised. Learn in Mandarin Chinese – How to say – Who do you predict will win American Idol 2012? Top three singing performance: Joshua Ledet, Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips


Learn Mandarin Chinese – How to say – May I please ask who do you predict will win American Idol 2012?

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请问你预测谁会赢得二零一二年美国偶像?
qǐngwèn nǐ yùcè shéi huì yíngdé èr líng yī èr nián Měiguó ǒuxiàng ?

qǐngwèn ( 请 qǐng means please, 问 wèn means ask, qǐngwèn means may I please ask) nǐ (你 pronoun, you) yùcè (预测 verb, predict) shéi (谁 question pronoun, who) huì (会auxiliary verb, will) yíng (赢 verb, win) dé (得 particle usually put after a verb) èr líng yī èr (2012) nián (年 noun, year) Měiguó (美国 proper noun, American) ǒuxiàng (偶像 noun, idol) ?

American Idol is a reality television singing competition. It started in June 2002 and has became one of the most popular television shows in American history.
The lucky winner of the show will have the opportunity to produce new solo recording, and the winner is determined by the viewers. From the start, the show has been hosted by radio DJ Ryan Seacrest. The past American Idol winners are Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks, David Cook, Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze, and Scotty McCreery.

This year is Idol’s season 11, with Joshua Ledet, Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips as the top 3 contestants. Tonight, Joshua Ledet got eliminated. Let’s see what the viewers said about the elimination and the coming finale.

Viewers’ reaction 观众的反映 guānzhòng de fǎnyìng :

Viewer number 1: Completely stunned. How does someone with a voice like Joshua get eliminated from ANY singing competition!!!

In Chinese, we have an idiom called 大吃一惊 which means got shocked or startled or gob-smacked. If this viewer knew Chinese, he might say

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Joshua 被淘汰真使我大吃一惊啊。
Joshua bèi táotài zhēn shǐ Wǒ dàchīyījīng ā .
Joshua bèi (被 passive action marker = Ved) táotài (淘汰 verb, eliminate) zhēn (真 adverb, really) shǐ (使 verb, make) Wǒ (我 pronoun, I or me) dàchīyījīng (大 dà means adverb greatly, 吃 chī means verb eat, 一 yī means number one, 惊 jīng means surprise or shock) ā (啊 particle to show exclamation).

Viewer number 2: I can not believe America is so blind !!!

For a person who is blind, in Chinese we called the person 瞎子 xiāzi 。瞎 xiā has two radicals, 目 mù means eyes, and 害 hài means damage. So, if we put the two together it means eyes got damaged. When a person is blind, his or her eyes got damaged.

I can not believe that person is so blind. In Chinese we say:
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我真不敢相信那个人这么盲目。
Wǒ zhēn bù gǎn xiāngxìn nà gè rén zhème mángmù .
Wǒ (我 pronoun, I) zhēn (真 adverb, really) bù (不 negate word, not) gǎn (敢verb, dare) xiāngxìn (相信 verb, believe) nà (那 pronoun, that) gè (个 measure word for person) rén (人 noun, person) zhème (这么 adverb, such) mángmù (盲目 adjective, blind) .
盲目 mángmù means blind. 盲 máng consists two radicals, the top 亡 wáng means die, and the 目 mù means eyes; so two radicals together means eyes died.

Viewer number 3: Philip is just a redundancy. We don’t need another David Cook. It’s high time we need to put an end to the WGWG phenomenon? By the way WGWG means white guy with guitar.

For redundancy, in Chinese we can say it as
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多馀的东西
duōyú de dōngxi 。
duōyú ( 多馀 adjective, extra) de (的 connecting particle to put after the attributive and before the noun it modifies) dōngxi ( 东西 noun, things) 。

东西 dōngxi originally means east and west, however, in this phrase it means stuff, things.

Viewer number 4: If America votes for the most handsome guy….Philip will win…but if they vote for someone who has exceptional talent…..then obviously Jessica will win.

Handsome guy in Chinese we say
英俊的男子
yīngjùn de nánzǐ。
yīngjùn ( 英俊 adjective, handsome) de ( 的 particle that got put after the attributive and before the noun) nánzǐ ( 男子 noun, men or guy)。

Normally we don’t use 美丽 (měilì,beautiful) or 漂亮 ( piàoliang pretty) to describe the beauty of male gender.

Viewer number 5: People are obviously voting for who they think is sexy and NOT who is talented!!! I am totally disappointed. Are you kidding me? America….Wise up!!!

Are you kidding me? In Chinese we say:
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你跟我开玩笑吗?
nǐ gēn Wǒ kāi wánxiào ma ?
nǐ (你 pronoun, you) gēn (跟 conjunction, with) Wǒ (我 pronoun, I or me) kāi (开verb, originally means open, here means play or have) wánxiào ( 玩笑 noun, joke) ma (吗 question particle) ?

Wise up! In Chinese we say
变聪明一点!
biàn cōngming yī diǎn !
biàn (变 verb, to become) cōngming (聪明 adjective, smart) yī diǎn ( 一点 adverb, a bit) !

It is interesting to see viewers’ different opinion about the contestants. Some even got totally disappointed and refused to watch the show again.
Since majority of voters of the shower are teenager girls, so, it is very likely that Philip will win.

Dear reader, what do you think? You are welcome to write your comment to let us know who do you predict will be the winner of 2012 American Idol.

Jessica Sanchez: I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – Top 3 – AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 11

Joshua Ledet: No More Drama – Top 3 – AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 11

Phillip Phillips: Beggin’ – Top 3 – AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 11

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