Famous Chinese singer, JJ Lin 林俊傑 Lin Jun jie 记得 Ji de Remember: lyrics, pinyin, English translation, quotes about breakup, heartaches, and Remember When – Avril Lavigne (lyrics)

Posted on 02/28/2012 by Chinesetolearn


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JJ Lin
林俊傑
Lin Jun jie
记得 Ji de Remember

谁还记得　
shui2 huan2 ji4 de2
Who still remembers?

是谁先说永远的爱我
shi4 shui1 xian1 shuo1 yong3 yuan3 de5 ai4 wo3
Who was the first one who said: “Forever love me.”

以前的一句话
yi3 qian2 de5 yi2 ju4 hua4
A sentence of the past

是我们以后的伤口
shi4 wo3 men5 yi3 hou4 de5 shang1 kou3
will become the wound in the future

过了太久
guo4 liao5 tai4 jiu3
(Time) passed long ago

没人记得当初那些温柔
mei2 ren2 ji4 de5 dang1 chu1 na4 xie1 wen1 rou2
Nobody remembers those gentleness of the past

我和你手牵手　
wo3 he2 ni3 shou3 qian1 shou3
You and I, hand in hand

说要一起走到最后
shuo1 yao4 yi4 qi3 zo3u dao4 zui4 hou4
Said that we will walk till the end

我们都忘了　
wo3 men1 du1 wang4 liao5
We have all forgotten

这条路走了多久
zhe4 tiao2 lu4 zou3 liao5 duo1 jiu3
How long we had walked in this journey

心中是清楚的　
xin1 zhong1 shi4 qing1 chu3 de5
In our hearts it is clear

有一天　有一天都会停的
you3 yi4 tian1 you3 yi4 tian1 du1 hui4 ting1 de5
There will be one day, one day, all will stop

让时间说真话
rang4 shi2 jian1 shuo1 zhen1 hua4
Let time tell the truth

虽然我也害怕
sui1 ran2 wo3 ye3 hai4 pa4
Although I am afraid too

在天黑了以后　
zai4 tian1 hei1 liao5 yi3 hou4
After the sky darkens

我们都不知道会不会有遗憾
wo3 men1 du1 bu2 zhi1 dao4 hui4 bu2 hui4 you3 yi2 han4
We all don’t know whether or not we will have regret or not

谁还记得　
shui2 huan1 ji4 de5
Who still remembers

是谁先说永远的爱我
shi4 shui2 xian1 shuo1 yong3 yuan3 de5 ai4 wo3
Who is the first one that said “forever love me”

以前的一句
yi3 qian2 de5 yi2 ju4
One sentence in the past

是我们以后的伤口
shi4 wo3 men1 yi3 hou4 de5 shang1 kou3
Will be the wound of the future

过了太久　
guo4 liao5 tai4 jiu3
(Time) passed long ago

没人记得当初那些温柔
mei2 ren2 ji4 de2 dang1 chu1 na4 xie1 wen1 rou2
Nobody remembers those gentleness of the past

我和你手牵手　
wo3 he2 ni3 shou3 qian1 shou3
You and I, hand in hand

说要一起走到最后
shuo1 yao4 yi4 qi3 zou3 dao4 zui4 hou4
Said that we will walk till the end together

我们都累了　
wo3 men1 du1 lei4 liao5
We are both tired

却没办法往回走
que4 mei2 ban4 fa3 wang3 hui2 zou3
But, there is no way to walk back

两颗心都迷惑　
liang3 ke1 xin1 du1 mi2 huo4
Two hearts are all confused

怎么说　怎么说都没有救
zen3 me5 shuo1 zen3 me5 shuo1 du1 mei2 you3 jiu4
No matter what we say, nothing can help with it

亲爱的为什么
qin1 ai4 de5 wei4 shi2 me5
My dear, why

也许你也不懂
ye3 xu3 ni3 ye3 bu4 dong3
Perhaps you don’t understand either

两个相爱的人
liang3 ge5 xiang1 ai4 de5 ren2
Two people who love each other

等对方先说找分开的理由
deng3 dui4 fang1 xian1 shuo1 zhao3 fen1 kai1 de5 li3 you2
Waited the other person to start talking the reason for breaking up

谁还记得爱情开始变化的时候
shui2 huan2 ji4 de5 ai4 qing2 kai1 shi3 bian4 hua4 de5 shi2 hou4
Who still remembers at the time when love started to change

我和你的眼中
wo3 he2 ni3 de5 yan3 zhong1
In the eyes of you and I

看见了不同的天空
kan4 jian4 liao5 bu4 tong2 de5 tian1 kong1
We saw the different skies

走的太远　
zou3 de5 tai4 yuan3
We walked too far

终于走到分岔路的路口
zhong1 yu2 zou3 dao4 fen1 cha1 lu4 de5 lu4 kou3
Finally, we reached the intersection

是不是你和我　
shi4 bu2 shi4 ni3 he2 wo3
Weather or not you and I

要有两个相反的梦
yao4 you3 liang3 ge5 xiang1 fan3 de5 meng4
Want to have two opposite dreams

谁还记得　
shui2 huan2 ji4 de5
Who still remembers

是谁先说永远的爱我
shi4 shui2 xian1 shuo1 yong3 yuan3 de5 ai4 wo3
Who is the first person that said “forever love me”

以前的一句话
yi3 qian2 de5 yi2 ju4 hua4
One sentence of the past

是我们以后的伤口
shi4 wo3 men1 yi3 hou4 de5 shang1 kou3
Will be the wound of the future

过了太久
guo4 liao5 tai4 jiu3
(Time) passed long ago

没人记得当初那些温柔
mei2 ren2 ji4 de5 dang1 chu1 na4 xie1 wen1 rou2
Nobody remembers those gentleness of the past

我和你手牵手
wo3 he2 ni3 shou3 qian1 shou3
You and I, hand in hand

说要一起走到最后
shuo1 yao4 yi4 qi3 zou3 dao4 zui4 hou4
Said that we will walk together to the end

我和你手牵手
wo3 he2 ni3 shou3 qian1 shou3
You and I, hand in hand

说要一起走到最后
shuo1 yao4 yi4 qi3 zou3 dao4 zui4 hou4
Said that we will together walk to the end

Translated by Shu

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Quotes of breakup and heartaches:

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either. Golda Meir quote

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown

God is closest to those with broken hearts. ~Jewish Saying

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ~Jean de La Fontaine

I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Missy Altijd

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks

I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
~Rupert Brooke

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown

I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.
~Edmund Spenser

With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence – o’er and o’er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
~Thomas Moore

Love is like a puzzle. When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. ~Author Unknown

If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.
~Thomas Otway

Bad as I like ye, it’s worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;
Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne

Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958

My love-lies-bleeding. ~Thomas Campbell

Walking, working, barely breathing
My thoughts, far away
Heart aching, mind racing
Sleep does not come easily, nor last long….
~Peter Winstanley

These quotes are from: http://www.quotegarden.com/heartache.html

Remember When – Avril Lavigne (lyrics)

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Tang quatrains 怨情 Yuan qing Resentment / Sentiments of Lament 李白 Li Bai: lyrics, pinyin, English translation and poem analysis. Idiom and origin of qin shou e mei 螓首蛾眉. How does an ancient Chinese beauty’s head look like? Limp Bizkit – Behind Blue Eyes lyrics

Posted on 02/27/2012 by Chinesetolearn

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怨情
Yuan4 qing2
Resentment / Sentiments of Lament
李白
Li Bai

美人卷珠簾，
Mei3 ren2 juan3 zhu1 lian2
The beautiful lady curled up the beaded curtain.

深坐蹙蛾眉.
shen1 zuo4 cu4 e2 mei2
Sitting deeply (in thought), she twisted her long and slender eye brows (in distress). (Note 1)

但見淚痕濕，
dan4 jian4 lei4 hen2 shi1
I merely saw the tear stains wet (her beautiful face).

不知心恨誰？
bu4 zhi1 xin1 hen4 shui2
There is no idea in her heart toward whom she bore resentment?

Note 1: The allusion of 蛾眉 (e2 mei2) comes from the Book of Odes (詩經 Shi Jing). In “碩人 Shuo Ren” of ” 衛風 Wei Feng” (the Ode from Wei) chapter 《詩經·衛風·碩人》, a beautiful lady was described as：“螓首蛾眉，巧笑倩兮，美目盼兮。”

螓首蛾眉，巧笑倩兮，美目盼兮.
qin2 shou3 e2 mei2, qiao3 xiao4 qian4 xi1, mei3 mu4 pan4 xi1.

Her forehead is cicada-like and her eyebrows are like (the antenna of) the silkworm moth. Ah, how winsome her sophisticated smiles; ah, how well defined the black and white (of her eyes), her lovely eyes! (Remember traditional Chinese people’s eye color was black, no contact lenses at that time.)

螓 qin2 is one kind of cicada. The head of qin2 ( 螓首 qin2 shou3) is said to have broad square forehead. 蛾 E2 is a moth, the antenna of moth (蛾眉 E2 mei2) is slender and elegant. In this chapter of Shi Jing, 螓首蛾眉 — broad forehead and curved, elegant eye brows — is used to describe the lady who is beautiful with pretty delicate facial feature.

【釋義】：螓：蟬的一種。螓首：額廣而方；蛾眉：眉細而長。寬寬的額頭，彎彎的眉毛。形容女子容貌美麗。

Poem analysis:

This is a mystery poem, a puzzle for us to figure out.

The first clue we got is there is a beauty who is sad and miserable. Through Li Bai’s vivid presentation, we can sense her emotion and resentment from the description — the stressed eye brow shape and the tears on the pretty cheeks.

The first line says that she curled up the beaded curtain. Why she curled up the curtain? You can say, that the weather is probably too hot, so she needs some fresh air? If you are a beauty living in Alabama or Texas, then I can understand your longing for some cool breeze, however, this is not the case here. This lady of rich, why did I say she’s rich? We know it from the curtain she has — beaded curtain; a common average family probably don’t have a beaded curtain, right? So, the story goes like this:

Once there was a rich pretty girl, she was very sad for she was looking for someone to come, but whoever he or she was, did not show up. Thus, she raised the curtain, looking and looking. Seeing no sign of that person, then, she sat back on her chair or sofa, and knotted her pretty two brows in such a tight shape like when you are doing a Chinese test on character dictation, and the teacher pronounced the word, you know that you practiced that word last night thousand times, but today you just could not remember it at all and you think and think of the word. Think and think, when you think and think, your eye brows definitely won’t be in the shape of relaxing and smile up shape, it should be in a frown and look distressed like the lady’s in the poem.

螓首蛾眉(see note 1) is the ancient Chinese standard of female facial beauty. A female is considered as pretty if she has a broad square head like a cicada and narrow and slight curved eye brows like the antenna of a moth.

The head of a cicada, like this

plus, the antenna of a moth

equal to

The third line clearly tells us that the lady cried, for the marks of tears are so vivid, they can be seen from so far away. She must have cried a lot then. Why was she that sad? Toward whom she bore her resentment? The poet did not know. What do you think, readers? It is possible that she was looking forward to seeing a delayed delivered race car? Not likely, unless she is crazy for sports cars. Also the word 谁 shei2 clearly told us that it is a person. So, who that person might be? A tea party playmate? If she is little – 5 or 6, then it might be possible, but, she is not. So, it must be someone older, a someone who made her very sad did not show up. Who could that person be? A husband who has been long gone and never returned or a lover that dumped her cruelly? What is your answer to this mystery poem?

Translated by Shu

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