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鳳飛飛-流水年華

凤飞飞
Feng fei fei

流水年华
Liu shui nian hua
Flowing water years
Running water years

朦胧的街灯　静静躺在小雨中　往事又掠过我心头
Mong2 long2 de5 jie1 deng1, jing4 jing4 tang3 zai4 xiao3 yu3 zhong1, wang3 shi4 you4 lue4 guo4 wo3 xin1 tou2
Hazy streetlights quietly stood in the drizzles; the past again swept past my mind.

犹记离别的时候　紧紧握住我的双手
you2 ji4 li2 bie2 de5 shi2 hou4, jin3 jin3 wo4 zhu4 wo3 de5 shuang1 shou3
I still remember at the time of parting, you tightly held my both hands.

轻轻一句多珍重　眼儿也朦胧
qing1 qing1 yi2 ju4 duo1 zhen1 zhong4, yan3 er2 ye3 mong2 long2
You uttered lightly one sentence “take good care”, and my eyes also became hazy.

年华似水流　转眼又是春风柔　层层的相思也悠悠
nian2 hua2 si4 shui3 liu2, zhuan3 yan3 you4 shi4 chun1 feng1 rou2, ceng2 ceng2 de5 xiang1 si1 ye3 you1 you1
The years are like flowing water. In the blink of an eye, it is again the gentle spring wind. Layer upon layer, the longing also lasts for ages.

他乡风寒露更浓　劝君早晚要好保重
ta1 xiang1 feng1 han2 lu4 geng4 nong2, quan4 jun1 zao3 wan3 yao4 hao3 bao3 zhong4
In foreign land, the wind is colder and the dews are more condensed.

期待他日再相逢　共度白首
qi2 dai4 ta1 ri4 zai4 xiang1 feng2, gong4 du4 bai2 shou3
I look forward to other day’s reunion and spending white hair years together.

今宵微寒　路上行人匆匆
jin1 xiao1 wei2 han2, lu4 shang4 xing2 ren2 cong1 cong1
Tonight the air is a bit chilly, and the passengers are hurried.

朦胧的街灯　孤立在小雨中
mong2 long2 de5 jie1 deng1, gu1 li4 zai4 xiao3 yu3 zhong1
Hazy streetlights lonely stand in the drizzles.

远处传来幽幽的歌声　句句在我心田
yuan3 chu4 chuan2 lai2, you1 you1 de5 ge1 sheng1, ju4 ju4 zai4 wo3 xin1 tian2
From distant place arrived the secluded sound of songs; each sentence is all in my heart’s field.

年华似水流　转眼又是春风柔　层层的相思也悠悠
nian2 hua2 si4 shui3 liu2, zhuan3 yan3 you4 shi4 chun1 feng1 rou2, ceng2 ceng2 de5 xiang1 si1 ye3 you1 you1
The years are like flowing water. In the blink of an eye, it is again the gentle spring wind. Layer upon layer, the longing also lasts for ages.

他乡风寒露更浓　劝君早晚要好保重
ta1 xiang1 feng1 han2 lu4 geng4 nong2, quan4 jun1 zao3 wan3 yao4 hao3 bao3 zhong4
In foreign land, the wind is colder and the dews are more condensed.

期待他日再相逢　我期待他日再相逢　共度白首
qi2 dai4 ta1 ri4 zai4 xiang1 feng2, wo3 qi2 dai4 ta1 ri4 zai4 xiang1 feng2, gong4 du4 bai2 shou3
I look forward to other day’s reunion. I look forward to other day’s reunion and spending white hair years together.

Translated by Shu

Feng Fei Fei background information:

Fong Fei Fei (1952 – 2012) was a Taiwanese singer and actress who was well known as the ‘Queen of Hats’ because of her signature style- glamorous and unique headwear. She won Taiwan’s Golden Bell Awards in 1983 and 1984 and had many fans throughout Asia .

Fong Fei fei was born as Lin Chiu-luan and grew up in Dasi, Taoyuan County, in central Taiwan. But lived in Hong Kong for the last ten years before she died.

She has produced more than 80 albums and held numerous sold-out concerts at home and abroad during her decades-long performance career and also stared in various Chinese films and TV variety shows.

She died on the 3rd of January 2012 from lung cancer, but the news was only reported on the 13th of February 2012 by her lawyer due to the final request of Fong Fei Fei who asked to keep her illness and death out of the limelight until all of her funeral arrangements were settled.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fong_Fei_Fei

Quotes of time:

Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It’s passing, yet I’m the one who’s doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis, Money

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell

For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~Author Unknown

Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, “Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day,” 1937 (Thanks, George)

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
~William Shakespeare

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. ~James Matthew Barrie

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~John B. Priestly

It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;
Would thou could’st make the time to do so too;
I’ll wind thee up no more.
~Ben Jonson

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~J.K. Rowling, “The Hungarian Horntail,” Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~The Talmud

Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling

El tiempo da buen consejo. ~Proverb

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin

When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said, “Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.” ~Author Unknown

These quotes come from:http://www.quotegarden.com/time.html

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