读你 Du ni Reading you 梁弘志 Liang Hongzhi 蔡琴 Cai qin /Tsai Chin: Chinese lyrics, pinyin, English translation, quotes of books and reading and If you could read my mind – Gordon Lightfoot with lyrics

梁弘志 讀你01

读你
Du ni
Reading you
蔡琴
Cai qin

梁弘志
Liang Hongzhi

读你千遍也不厌倦
du2 ni3 qian2 bian4 ye3 bu4 yan4 juan4
Even though I have been reading you thousand times, I am not feeling weary at all

读你的感觉像三月
du2 ni3 de5 gan3 jue2 xiang4 san1 yue4
The feeling of reading you is like feeling the time of March

浪漫的季节
lang4 man4 de5 ji4 jie2
The season of romancing

醉人的诗篇
zui4 ren2 de5 shi1 pian1
Intoxicating poems

读你千遍也不厌倦
du2 ni3 qian2 bian4 ye3 bu4 yan4 juan4
Even though I have been reading you thousand times, I am not feeling weary at all

读你的感觉象春天
du2 ni3 de5 gan3 jue2 xiang4 chun1 tian2
The feeling of reading you is like feeling the spring

喜悦的经典
xi3 yue4 de5 jing1 dian3
Delightful classic

美丽的诗篇
mei3 li4 de5 shi1 pian1
Beautiful poems

你的眉目之间
ni3 de5 mei2 mu4 zhi1 jian1
Between your eyebrows and eyes

锁着我的爱怜
suo3 zhuo5 wo3 de5 ai4 lian2
Upon there my affection and cherishing are locked

你的唇齿之间
ni3 de5 chun2 chi3 zhi1 jian1
Between your lips and teeth

留着我的誓言
liu2 zhe5 wo3 de5 shi4 yan2
My promises and vows remain

你的一切移动
ni3 de5 yi2 qie4 yi2 dong4
All of your movement

左右我的视线
zuo3 you4 wo3 de5 shi4 xian4
Guide my seeing direction

你是我的诗篇
ni3 shi4 wo3 de5 shi1 pian1
You are my poems

读你千遍也不厌倦
du2 ni3 qian2 bian4 ye3 bu4 yan4 juan4
Even though I have been reading you thousand times, I am not feeling weary at all

你的眉目之间
ni3 de5 mei2 mu4 zhi1 jian1
Between your eyebrows and eyes

锁着我的爱怜
suo3 zhuo5 wo3 de5 ai4 lian2
Upon there my affection and cherishing are locked

你的唇齿之间
ni3 de5 chun2 chi3 zhi1 jian1
Between your lips and teeth

留着我的誓言
liu2 zhe5 wo3 de5 shi4 yan2
My promises and vows remain

你的一切移动
ni3 de5 yi2 qie4 yi2 dong4
All of your movement

左右我的视线
zuo3 you4 wo3 de5 shi4 xian4
Guide my seeing direction

你是我的诗篇
ni3 shi4 wo3 de5 shi1 pian1
You are my poems

读你千遍也不厌倦
du2 ni3 qian2 bian4 ye3 bu4 yan4 juan4
Even though I have been reading you thousand times, I am not feeling weary at all

读你
du2 ni3
Reading you …

Translated by Shu

Quotes about books and reading:

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy. ~Edward P. Morgan

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown

A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. ~G.K. Chesterton

Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. ~Forsyth and Rada, Machine Learning

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison

A good book has no ending. ~R.D. Cumming

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, 7 August 1991

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O’Rourke

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. ~Attributed to Groucho Marx

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833

Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights
Let them be your mattress
And you shall sleep restful nights.
~Author Unknown

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ~George Robert Gissing

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb

There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house. ~Joe Ryan

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~William Hazlitt

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm

A dirty book is rarely dusty. ~Author Unknown

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! ~William James

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ~Oscar Wilde

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. ~Franz Kafka

Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ~Christopher Morley

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross

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

If you could read my mind – Gordon Lightfoot with lyrics

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Learn Chinese – learn Mandarin – How to say – He risked his life to save that child. 他冒着生命的危险去救那个小孩。Ta1 mao4 zhe5 sheng1 ming4 de5 wei2 xian3 qu4 jiu4 na4 ge5 xiao3 hai2. Ta1 (他 pronoun, he) mao4 (冒 verb, risk) zhe5 (着 a continuous aspect particle after verb, see explanation below) sheng1 ming4 (生命noun, life) de5 (的 a connecting particle, usually put between attribute and the noun) wei2 xian3 (危险 noun, danger) qu4 (去 verb, to go to) jiu4 (救 verb, save) na4 (那 pronoun, that) ge5 (个 measure word for child) xiao3 (小 adjective, little) hai2 (孩 noun, child).

Today, let’s learn about the usage of continuous aspect particle 着 zhe5:

Usage 1: V + 着 zhe5 can be used to describe how an action is carried out with another action (i.e. the action is done in what fashion).

For example:
他站**着**看书。
Ta1 zhan4 zhe5 kan4 shu1.
He reads while he is standing.
He read while he was standing.

我弟弟听**着**音乐打电动。
Wo3 di4 di5 ting1 zhe5 yin1 yue4 da3 dian4 dong4.
My younger brother plays electronic games while he is listening to music.
My younger brother played electronic games while he was listening to music.

Usage 2: V + 着 zhe5 can be used to describe the action is continuous, as
in the present continuous tense or past continuous tense, it is like the “-ing” suffix that we use on the end of English verbs.

For example,

你听**着**音乐。我唱**着**歌。
Ni3 ting1 zhe5 yin1 yue4. Wo3 chang4 zhe5 ge1.
You are listening to music. I am singing songs.
You were listening to music. I was singing songs.

For the same meaning, you can use 在 zai4 (progressive aspect) to show the continuous action, but 在zai4 needs to be put in front of the verb.
你**在**听音乐。我**在**唱歌。
Ni3 zai4 ting1 yin1 yue4. Wo3 zai4 chang4 ge1.
You are listening to music. I am singing songs.
You were listening to music. I was singing songs.

You can even use zai4 and zhe5 at same time to emphasize the continuous aspect, as

你**在**听**着**音乐。我**在**唱**着**歌。
Ni3 zai4 ting1 zhe5 yin1 yue4. Wo3 zai4 chang4 zhe5 ge1.
You are listening to music. I am singing songs.
You were listening to music. I was singing songs.

Usage 3 of 着 zhe5: 1. V+着 zhe5 can be used to describe about how an object has been put or left in a certain way.
门是开**着**。
Men1 shi4 kai1 zhe5.
The door is open.

我把衣服挂**着**。
Wo3 ba3 yi1 fu2 gua4 zhe5.
I hung the clothes.

Usage 4 of 着 zhe5 after a stative verb to describe a constant situation going on and in an excess of certain condition.
Stative verbs are words which are used to describe a state which is relatively unchanging. Examples of stative verbs are gao1 (tall), gui4 (expensive), da4 (large), hao3 (good) and mang2 (busy). These stative verbs are often translated into English as adjectives, but they function as verbs in Mandarin sentences.

For example,
我的成绩好**着**呢。
Wo3 de5 cheng2 ji1 hao3 zhe5 ne5.
My grade is very good.

他高**着**呢。
Ta1 gao1 zhe5 ne5.
He is very tall.

Speaking of continuous aspect, are you feeling thrilled about life at this moment? Hope you are not feeling bored of learning Chinese grammar now! I know you are not, so, let’s learn one more sentence for today:

We are all living the life right now.
Wo3 men1 dou1 zai4 sheng1 huo2 zhe5 ne5.
我们都**在**生活**着**呢!!

Living your life positively, and wish your life full of wonderful moments ….. If sometimes, sad moments come, please look out for the silver lining at the contour of dark clouds and expect the rainbows…..

Since, we are talking about saving life (生命 sheng1 ming4) today, let’s listen to a lovely song by OneRepublic – Good Life + Lyrics

And see how the fly tried so hard to complete perfection in it’s one minute life video,
an amazing fly it was ….

蒼蠅一分鐘的生命 Cang2 ying2 yi4 fen1 zhong1 de5 sheng1 ming4
The one minute life of a fly or a fly’s one minute life

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