我爱的人 Wo ai de ren The one I love / The person I love 陈小春 Jordan Chan Chen xiao chun 林宥嘉 Lin You jia Melody by Jay Chou: lyrics, pinyin, English translation, quotes of unrequited love, singer background info, U2 – With or Without you – lyrics

Posted on 03/09/2012 by Chinesetolearn

我爱的人
陈小春

我爱的人
陈小春 concert

林宥嘉 The purpose of this version is for lyrics only. 陈小春’s version is way better.

我爱的人
Wo ai de ren
The one I love

陈小春
Jordan Chan
Chen xiao chun

林宥嘉
Lin You jia

Melody by
Jay Chou

我知道 故事不会 太曲折
wo3 zhi1 dao4, gu4 shi4 bu2 hui4, tai4 qu1 zhe2
I know that the story won’t be too complicated.

我总会 遇见一个 什么人
wo3 zong3 hui4, yu4 jian4 yi2 ge4, shen2 me5 ren2
I will meet one, what person.

陪我过 没有了 她的人生
pei2 wo3 guo4, mei2 you3 liao5 ta1 de5 ren2 sheng1
Accompany me to live a life without her. (He loves her a lot, but she chose to be with someone else. So, she is in his memory and also in his life for he can’t move on. Thus, she is accompanying him in some way, sad memory way or haunting way.)

成家立业之类的 等等
cheng2 jia1 li4 ye4 zhi1 lei4 de5, deng3 deng3
To get married and start a career (this is a Chinese idiom) and so on, etc..

她做了她 觉得对 的选择
ta1 zuo4 liao5 ta1, jue2 de5 dui4 de5 xuan3 ze2
She made the choice which she thought was right.

我只好 祝福她 真的对了
wo3 zhi3 hao3, zhu4 fu2 ta1 zhen1 de5 dui4 liao5
I had no other option, but to wish her really did make the right choice.

爱不到 我最想要爱的人
ai4 bu2 dao4, wo3 zui4 xiang3 yao4 ai4 de5 ren2
I love but I was not able to get the person who I want the most to love.

谁还能要我怎样呢
shui2 huan2 neng2 yao4 wo3 zen3 yang4 ne5
Who still want me to do what? (Which means that nothing he can do anymore, for the lady he loves already made the choice and chose someone else but him.)

我爱的人 不是我的爱人
wo3 ai4 de5 ren2 bu2 shi4 wo3 de5 ai4 ren2
The one I love is not my lover.

她心里每一寸 都属于另一个人
ta1 xin1 li3 mei3 yi2 cun4 du1 shu3 yu2 ling4 yi4 ge4 ren2
Each inch within her heart all belongs to another person.

她真幸福 幸福得真残忍
ta1 zhen1 xing4 fu2, xing4 fu2 de2 zhen1 can2 ren3
She is really happy. She is happying (here let’s translate the word happy as a verb, for in Chinese lyrics, it is used as a verb) really cruelly.

让我又爱又恨 她的爱 怎么那么深
rang4 wo3 you4 ai4 you4 hen4, ta1 de5 ai4 zen3 me5 na4 me5 shen1
Let me both love and hate. Her love, how come is that deep?

我爱的人 她已有了爱人
wo3 ai4 de5 ren2, ta1 yi3 you3 liao5 ai4 ren2
The person I love; she already has a lover.

从他们的眼神 说明了我不可能
cong2 ta1 men1 de5 yan3 shen2, shuo1 ming2 liao5 wo3 bu4 ke3 neng2
From eye meaningful glance exchanges between them, it said clearly that I will not be able (to have any chance).

每当听见 她或他说 我们
mei3 dang1 ting1 jian4, ta1 huo4 ta1 shuo1 wo3 men1
Whenever I heard she or he said “us”.

就像听见爱情 永恒的嘲笑声
jiu4 xiang4 ting1 jian4 ai4 qing2 yong3 heng2 de5 chao2 xiao4 sheng1
It seemed like I heard love’s forever sound of teasing.

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我知道 故事不会 太曲折
wo3 zhi1 dao4, gu4 shi4 bu2 hui4, tai4 qu1 zhe2
I know that the story won’t be too complicated.

我总会 遇见一个 什么人
wo3 zong3 hui4, yu4 jian4 yi2 ge4, shen2 me5 ren2
I will meet one, what person

陪我过 没有了 她的人生
pei2 wo3 guo4, mei2 you3 liao5 ta1 de5 ren2 sheng1
Accompany me to live a life without her. (He loves her a lot, but she chose to be with someone else. So, she is in his memory and also in his life for he can’t move on. Thus, she is accompanying him in some way, sad memory way or haunting way.)

成家立业之类的 等等
cheng2 jia1 li4 ye4 zhi1 lei4 de5, deng3 deng3
To get married and start a career (this is a Chinese idiom) and so on, etc..

她做了她 觉得对 的选择
ta1 zuo4 liao5 ta1, jue2 de5 dui4 de5 xuan3 ze2
She made the choice which she thought was right.

我只好 祝福她 真的对了
wo3 zhi3 hao3, zhu4 fu2 ta1 zhen1 de5 dui4 liao5
I had no other option, but to wish her really did make the right choice.

爱不到 我最想要爱的人
ai4 bu2 dao4, wo3 zui4 xiang3 yao4 ai4 de5 ren2
I love but I was not able to get the person who I want the most to love.

谁还能要我怎样呢
shui2 huan2 neng2 yao4 wo3 zen3 yang4 ne5
Who still want me to do what? (Which means that nothing he can do anymore, for the lady he loves already made the choice and chose someone else but him.)

我爱的人 不是我的爱人
wo3 ai4 de5 ren2 bu2 shi4 wo3 de5 ai4 ren2
The one I love is not my lover.

她心里每一寸 都属于另一个人
ta1 xin1 li3 mei3 yi2 cun4 du1 shu3 yu2 ling4 yi4 ge4 ren2
Each inch within her heart all belongs to another person.

她真幸福 幸福得真残忍
ta1 zhen1 xing4 fu2, xing4 fu2 de2 zhen1 can2 ren3
She is really happy. She is happying (here let’s translate the word happy as a verb, for in Chinese lyrics, it is used as a verb) really cruelly.

让我又爱又恨 她的爱 怎么那么深
rang4 wo3 you4 ai4 you4 hen4, ta1 de5 ai4 zen3 me5 na4 me5 shen1
Let me both love and hate. Her love, how come is that deep?

我爱的人 她已有了爱人
wo3 ai4 de5 ren2, ta1 yi3 you3 liao5 ai4 ren2
The person I love; she already has a lover.

从他们的眼神 说明了我不可能
cong2 ta1 men1 de5 yan3 shen2, shuo1 ming2 liao5 wo3 bu4 ke3 neng2
From eye meaningful glance exchanges between them, it said clearly that I will not be able (to have any chance).

每当听见 她或他说 我们
mei3 dang1 ting1 jian4, ta1 huo4 ta1 shuo1 wo3 men1
Whenever I heard she or he said “us”.

就像听见爱情 永恒的嘲笑声
jiu4 xiang4 ting1 jian4 ai4 qing2 yong3 heng2 de5 chao2 xiao4 sheng1
It seemed like I heard love’s forever sound of teasing.

Translated by Shu


Singer Chen Xiaochun / Jordan Chan background info:

Jordan Chan Siu-Chun is a Chinese actor and musician from Hong Kong.

Chan got his start by enrolling in the TVB Dancers’ Training Class in 1985. Soon after graduation, he joined a few of the studio’s troupes that would accompany popular singers during their live performances. He worked with artists such as Alan Tam, Leslie Cheung, and Anita Mui before being invited by a producer to make a record of his own.

In 1994, he made his film debut with Twenty Something. Chan has since received several Hong Kong Film Award nominations: two for his role in He’s a Woman, She’s a Man (1994), and one each for Heaven Can’t Wait (1995) and Big Bullet (1996). With 1996’s Young and Dangerous, Chan established himself as a mainstay of the triad genre. The film was a huge success, and led to nine sequels and spinoffs before the series concluded in 2000. In 2005, Chan starred alongside Jay Chou as Kyoichi Sudo in Initial D.

Musically, Chan is known for bringing a hip hop flavor to cantopop. With his recent releases beginning around 2002, he has rapped and added hip hop beats to his music. His hip hop style has brought him new fans, although some Hong Kong fans have accused him of acting “black.” He continues to incorporate R&B and hip hop sounds into his music today.

Chan married actress Cherrie Ying on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2010 at Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.

Read more about Jordan Chan see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Chan

Quotes about unrequited love:

“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers quotes

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
Neil Gaiman quotes

“You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
Julie de Lespinasse quotes

“All love is unrequited. All of it.”
J. Michael Straczynski quotes

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”
Washington Irving quotes

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”
Sam Keen quotes

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”

These interesting quotes come from: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/like/all-love-is-unrequited-all-of-it/349875/

U2 – With or Without you – lyrics

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Penguin fun facts, why are black and white, can’t fly, use stones?How to say ” Penguins are flightless birds and they live in Antarctica” in Mandarin Chinese. Idiom story 塞翁失马 sài wēng shī mǎ, Now and Forever- The Pebble and the Penguin, baby penguins videos and more

Posted on 03/08/2012 by Chinesetolearn


I think you probably know that penguins are one kind of birds. When we heard “birds”, most of time we popped up bird flying image in our mind. Penguins do have a pair of wings, but sadly they can’t fly. Why penguins can’t fly? Keep your curious mind alert; we are going to learn why penguins are good swimmers, but not flyers, and some other interesting, fun facts about them. For example, why they wear white and black tuxedos, but not colorful one like rainbow fish does?

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How to say ” Penguins are flightless birds and they live in Antarctica” in Mandarin Chinese : Qìé shì bú huì féi de niǎo, tāmen zhù zài nánjízhōu 企鹅是不会飞的鸟，他们住在南极洲. Qìé (企鹅 noun, penguins) shì (是 verb, are) bú (不 negate word, not) huì(会 modal verb, can) féi (飞 verb, fly) de (的 particle to connect the attributive and the noun it modifies) niǎo (鸟 noun, bird), tāmen (他们 pronoun, they) zhù (住 verb, live) zài (在 preposition word, in) nánjízhōu (南极洲 proper noun, Antarctica).

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Why penguins are black and white, but not orange and pink? The reason is: When they’re swimming, their predators (掠 夺 者 [lüèduózhĕ] ) below them will have a hard time seeing their white fronts against the light coming from the water surface; if predators are above them will also have a hard time recognize (认 出 [rènchū]) their dark backs against the dark water below them. This is a form of counter shading. Counter shading is a common color pattern ( 花 样 [huāyàng] ) in animals. The dorsal side (upper side) of the animal is darker than the ventral (lower) side. This kind of color pattern offers camouflage (伪 装 [wĕizhuāng] or 保 护 色 [băohùsè] ) and protection ( 保 护 [băohù] ) for the animals, because of counter shading, animals have a better chance to escape predators’ attack. So, next time when you plan to go scuba diving, for your safety, remember to buy a wet suit with black back and white front to increase your chance of not getting eaten by sharks.

A lot of people wish to have a pair of magic (神 奇 的 [shénqí de] ) wings to fly with. However, not all wings are equal at flying. Some are just fake wings like penguins’ — with no flying ability at all.

The reason that penguins cannot fly in air is their wings are too small for their body weight (重 量 [zhòngliàng] ). Penguins have very small wings, yet very heavy. Besides, penguins do not have hollow ( 空 的 [kōng de] ) bones like majority (大 多 数 [dàduōshù] ) of other flying birds do, so penguins are much heavier and harder, and they are not able to support the action of flying with their little dwarf (矮 小 的 [ăixiăo de] ) wings.

Did you become blue or produce burning angry flame ( 怒 火 [nùhuǒ] ) in your body when you lost something or when you didn’t have things that most people had? If you did, then those sad blues and the flaming emotional fires were not helpful at all on increasing your emotional or physical health level. You certainly or surefirely need to learn from this wise old man who lived thousand years ago on the border line of northern China.

We have a Chinese idiom 塞翁失马 sài wēng shī mǎ which means “Misfortune might be a blessing in disguise.” The story goes like this:

Once upon a time, on the border of ancient China, lived a wise old man who made his living by raising horses. One day one of his horses ran away. His neighbors felt sorry for him and went to comfort him, but he said: “I just lost a horse, there is nothing to feel sad about. Maybe this misfortune will bring something good to me; you never know.” A few days later, just like the wise border man had said, not only the lost horse came back, the horse also brought back another fine horse. Again, came the neighbors to offer congratulations to the border old man. However, the border man said : “Who knows what will happen after this good fortune.” A few days later, wise man’s son got thrown off from the horse back and broke his leg. Again, neighbors came to comfort the wise man, and the wise man said: “Broken a leg is bad, but maybe some goodness will come after it.” As he had predicted, the broken leg gave wise man’s son the rightful excuse not to be recruited to go to battle; thus, this bad thing — the broken leg — saved his life and prevented him from getting killed in the battles.

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This idiom can also be expressed as:
塞翁失马 焉知非福 Sāi Wēng Shī Mǎ, Yān Zhī Fēi Fú
Border old man lost his horse, how can you know it won’t be something fortunate?
Border old man lost his horse, blessing or bane?

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So, in today’s post, the penguins sadly don’t have good wings to fly. But, it is not necessary a bad thing either. The short heavy wings serve as good, strong paddles which are great tool for swimming, and they are also fast at catching fish too. Therefore, even penguins can’t fly in the sky, they do fly under water! Their clumsy unable flying wings help penguins with hunting for fish, and also the extremely (非 常 [fēicháng] ) efficient ( 效 率 高 的 [xiàolù gāo de] ) wings make them so chubby (肥 胖 的 [féipàng de] ) and adorable too. Always see things from the bright side, no matter what happened or will happen.

Even most of penguins live in icy places, they are warm blooded like humans. Penguins are social creatures and they love their fellow penguins’ company a lot. Penguins live in large colonies called rookeries. They love penguin city life for they don’t like to live in a little town with just a few penguin citizens; they definitely don’t want to be a recluse. Penguins are good learners of sign language ( 手 语 [shŏuyŭ] ); they talk with their head and flippers (the so called flightless wings). They are good at using body language, but, when they got mad, they don’t use their head to knock or their flippers to slap, they use their beak to bite to defend themselves and their nests. Speaking of beak, do you know that penguins don’t chew food? They just swallow it as a whole; it can be a fish, cephalopods or krill.

Penguins spend most of their lives in water. Practice makes perfect, so they all are perfect swimmers. How many minutes can you hold your breath underwater? Three minutes, five minutes? For penguins, they can hold their breath for about 20 minutes underwater.

The way they walk is called waddling. Waddling sounds like silly and slow, yet sometimes they can waddle (摇 摇 摆 摆 地 行 走 [yáoyáo băibăi de xíngzŏu] ) faster than humans walk. They are speedy, plumpy, shaky waddlers.

Most people know penguins’ worst enemies are sea lions (海 狮 [Hǎishī]) . However, sea lions are not as lethal as global warming ( 全 球 变 暖 [quánqiú biànnuăn] ), oil spills or water pollution. Penguins have become endangered (面 临 绝 种 危 机 的 [miàn lín jué zhǒng wēi jī de] for many reasons. The biggest one is global warming. It causes penguins to die. Human related pollution （ 污 染 [wūrăn] ） deepens global warming and global warming makes the temperatures get higher. When the sea temperatures become high, a lot of sea ice will be melted. without the land to stand upon, penguins will be greatly endangered for they won’t have many places to call home. What can we do to prevent global warming? Sound like an interesting topic to learn later.

Before we conclude today’s post, let’s learn one more thing – penguins and stones or penguins and pebbles. Some penguins build nests of small stones. They might take stones from other nests. Sometimes, a penguin might return to the nest bringing its mate a stone as a courtship gesture. Instead of buying a bouquet of flowers like some people do for their partners, penguins seem more practical （切 合 实 际 的 [qièhé shíjì de] ） and economical 🙂 Now you will be able to comprehend better about this song.

Now and Forever- The Pebble and the Penguin with lyrics

Angela Zhang – Invisible Wings For the lyrics, pinyin and English translation see
http://www.chinesetolearn.com/?p=2046

funny penguin falling down Mmmm not London bridges falling down

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