张雨生 – 大海 / Big Sea
Zhang yu sheng – Da hai
从那遥远海边 慢慢消失的你 本来模糊的脸 竟然渐渐清晰
cong na yao yuan hai bian man man xiao shi de ni ben lai mo hu de lian jing ran jian jian qing xi
From that faraway seaside, you were gradually disappearing; suddenly your original vague face gradually became clear
想要说些什么 又不知从何说起 只有把它放在心底
xiang yao shuo xie shi me you bu zhi cong he shuo qi zhi you ba ta fang zai xin di
I wanted to say something, but did not know where to start the conversation. So, I just had to put it in the bottom of my heart
茫然走在海边 看那潮来潮去 徒劳无功 想把每朵浪花记清
mang ran zou zai hai bian kan na chao lai chao qu tu lao wu gong xiang ba mei duo lang hua ji qing
In a lose, I walked at the seaside and looked the tides came and went. Wasting effort without success — tried to clearly remember every wave spray
想要说声爱你 却被吹散在风里 猛然回头 你在那里
xiang yao shuo sheng ai ni que bei chui san zai feng li meng ran hui tou ni zai na li
Wanted to utter a sound to say “love you”, but the voice got dispersed in the wind. Suddenly I turned around, and found you there
如果大海能够唤回曾经的爱 就让我用一生等待
ru guo da hai neng gou huan hui zeng jing de ai jiu rang wo yong yi sheng deng dai
If the big sea could call back the past love, then let me use my all life to wait for it
如果深情往事你已不再留恋 就让它随风飘远
ru guo shen qing wang shi ni yi bu zai liu lian jiu rang ta sui feng piao yuan
If you no longer recall the deeply felt past fondly, then just let it be gone with the wind and drift faraway
如果大海能够带走我的哀愁 就像带走每条河流
ru guo da hai neng gou dai zou wo de ai chou jiu xiang dai zou mei tiao he liu
If the big sea can carry away my sorrow, just like it takes away every river
所有受过的伤 所有流过的泪 我的爱 请全部带走
suo you shou guo de shang suo you liu guo de lei wo de ai qing quan bu dai zou
All the wounds that I suffered, all the tears that I cried, and my love, please take all of them away
Translated by Shu
Quotes about water – sea, ocean, well, river, stream:
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. ~William Wordsworth
A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David Thoreau
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad
Never a ship sails out of the bay
But carries my heart as a stowaway.
~Roselle Mercier Montgomery, The Stowaway
Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. ~Henry David Thoreau
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen
Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.
~e.e. cummings
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. ~H.M. Tomlinson
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country. ~Author Unknown
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.
~William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Foot-prints on the Sea-shore”
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad
Praise the sea; on shore remain. ~John Florio
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. ~Blaise Pascal
The great sea makes one a great sceptic. ~Richard Jefferies
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans. ~Kahlil Gibran
And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
~Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri
Keep your feet on the deck, your hands on the tiller, your eyes on the horizon and your beer in the fridge! ~B.E. Marshall
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. ~William Hazlitt
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ~James Russell Lowell
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, – so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be. ~Henry David Thoreau
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fisherman’s cafe. ~Joseph W. Beach