在那银色月光下
zai4 na4 yin2 se4 yue4 guang1 xia4
Under that silver moonlight
在那金色沙滩上，撒满银色的月光，
zai4 na4 jin1 se4 sha1 tan1 shang4, sa3 man3 yin1 se4 de5 yue4 guang1
On that golden sandy shore which was fully sprinkled with silver moonlight
寻找往事踪影，往事踪影迷茫。
xun2 zhao3 wang3 shi4 zong1 ying3, wang3 shi4 zong1 ying3 mi2 mang1
I was looking for the traces of past happenings, however, the traces of past happenings were vast and indistinct
往事踪影迷茫，犹如幻梦一样，
wang3 shi4 zong1 ying3 mi2 mang2, you2 ru2 huan4 meng4 yi2 yang4
The traces of past happenings were vast and indistinct; they were just like fantasies and dreams
你在何处躲藏，背弃我的姑娘。
ni3 zai4 he2 duo3 cang2, bei4 qi4 wo3 de5 gu1 niang5
Where were you hiding? The lady who abandoned me
我骑在马儿上，剑一样的飞翔，
wo3 qi2 zai4 ma3 er5 shang4, jian4 yi2 yang4 de5 fei1 xiang2
I am riding on the horse, flying like a sword
飞呀飞呀我的马，朝着她去的方向。
fei1 ya5 fei1 ya5 wo3 de5 ma3, chao2 zhuo5 ta1 qu4 de5 fang1 xiang4
Fly, fly my horse toward the direction where she went away
Translated by Shu
Background information about Under the silver moonlight
“Under the Silver Moonlight” originally is a Russian folk song. The Soviet Union, after the revolution, a lot of its people moved to Xinjiang and settled there. Thus, this song got passed onto local people of Xinjiang and became a minority folk song.
1949, “Western King of singing” Wang Luo Bing worked in Xinjiang and met a lot of ethnic minority. They often drank together and sang songs. Wang Luo Bing learned the song from there.
Quotes of moonlight:
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde quotes
“The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy”
Persian Proverb quotes
“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.”
William Shakespeare quotes
“Moonlight is sculpture.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes
“This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence — and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again — and you with it, you dust of dust!”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
Jean Paul Richter quotes
Moon River – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Be yourself quotes:
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ~James Matthew Barrie
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine
A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. ~Boris Pasternak
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people. ~Tom Masson
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ~Shirley MacLaine
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. ~George Gissing
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ~John Morley
There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice
You might wonder why put on this song. For tonight’s Grammy Award, this song won the song of the year:) Just for the occasion.
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