Chinese songs: 邓丽君Teresa Teng (Deng lijun) 小城故事 Xiao Cheng gu shi Small town stories: lyrics, pinyin, and English translation

邓丽君 – 小城故事 Xiǎo Chéng Gùshì

Teresa Teng    Little town story

Lyrics and translation

小城故事多

xiǎochéng gùshì duō

Small town (has) many stories

小(little)城(town)故事(stories)多 (more/many)


充满喜和乐

chóng màn xīhé lè        

full of joy and happiness

充满(to fill)喜(joy)和(and)乐 (happiness)


若是你到小城来

ruòshì nǐ dào xiǎochéng lái      

If you come to the little town

若是(if)你(you)到(come to)小(little)城(town)来 (come)


收获特别多 

shōuhuò tèbié duō        

(you will) especially harvest a lot

收获(reward/harvest)特别(especially)多(many)


看似一幅画

kàn shì yī fú huà         

(the town) looks like a picture

看(look)似(like)一(one)幅(measure word for painting)画(picture/drawing/painting)


听像一首歌

tīng xiàng yī shǒu gē         

(if you heard it, it) sounds like a song

听(to sound)像(like)一(one)首(measure word for song)歌(song)


人生境界真善美,这里已包括

rénshēng jìng jìng zhēnshànměi zhèlǐ yǐ bāokuò 

The scape of life, truth, kindness, and beauty, here already includes of

人生(life)境界(realm)真(truth)善(kindness)美(beauty),这里(here)已(already)包括(include)


谈的谈,说的说 

tán dé tánshuòdé shuò      

Talking (people) talks, chatting (people) chats

谈(talking)的(connecting particle, object is omitted here)谈(to talk),说(saying)的(connecting particle, object is omitted here)说(to say)


小城故事真不错

xiǎochéng gùshì zhēn bùcuò

The small town story is really not bad

小(little)城(town)故事(stories)真(really)不(not)错(bad)


请你的朋友一起来  

qǐng nǐ de péngyǒu yī qǐlái     

Ask your friends come together (with you)

请(invite)你的(your)朋友(friend)一起(together)来 (come) 


小城来做客

xiǎo chéng lái zuòkè

(to) the little town to be quests.

小(little)城(town)来(to come to )做(be)客 (quest)

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阳光和小雨 Yang guang he xiao yu Sunshine and light rains: lyrics, pinyin, English translation

阳光和小雨

Yángguāng hé xiǎoyǔ

Sunshine and light rain

如果 有 一 天

Rúguǒ yǒu yī tiān
If there was one day
如果 (if) · 有 (have) · 一 (one) · 天 (day)

阳光 不见 了

Yángguāng bú jiàn le
The sunshine disappeared
阳光 (sun+light / sunshine) · 不 (not) · 见 (see) · 了 (change / completion)

世界 会 变 冷

Shìjiè huì biàn lěng
The world would become cold
世界 (world) · 会 (will) · 变 (become) · 冷 (cold)

什么 也 看 不到

Shénme yě kàn bú dào
Nothing could be seen
什么 (what / anything) · 也 (also / even) · 看 (see) · 不 (not) · 到 (able to)

如果 有 一 天

Rúguǒ yǒu yī tiān
If there was one day
如果 (if) · 有 (have) · 一 (one) · 天 (day)

小雨 不 下 了

Xiǎoyǔ bú xià le
The light rain stopped falling
小 (small) · 雨 (rain) · 不 (not) · 下 (fall) · 了 (change)

水儿 不再 流

Shuǐr bú zài liú
The water would no longer flow
水儿 (water + diminutive) · 不再 (no longer) · 流 (flow)

花儿 也 凋谢 了

Huār yě diāoxiè le
The flowers would also wither
花儿 (flower + diminutive) · 也 (also) · 凋谢 (wither) · 了 (change)

因为 我们 心 中

Yīnwèi wǒmen xīn zhōng
Because in our hearts
因为 (because) · 我们 (we / us) · 心 (heart) · 中 (inside)

藏着 有 一份 爱

Cángzhe yǒu yī fèn ài
There is a love hidden inside
藏着 (hide + ongoing) · 有 (have) · 一 (one) · 份 (measure word) · 爱 (love)

所以 阳光 和 小雨

Suǒyǐ yángguāng hé xiǎoyǔ
So the sunshine and the light rain
所以 (so / therefore) · 阳光 (sunshine) · 和 (and) · 小雨 (light rain)

会 与 我们 同在

Huì yǔ wǒmen tóngzài
Will be together with us
会 (will) · 与 (with) · 我们 (us) · 同在 (exist together)

爱 就是 阳光

Ài jiùshì yángguāng
Love is sunshine
爱 (love) · 就是 (is exactly) · 阳光 (sunshine)

爱 就是 小雨

Ài jiùshì xiǎoyǔ
Love is light rain
爱 (love) · 就是 (is exactly) · 小雨 (light rain)

阳光 和 小雨

Yángguāng hé xiǎoyǔ
Sunshine and light rain
阳光 (sunshine) · 和 (and) · 小雨 (light rain)

离不开 我 和 你

Lí bù kāi wǒ hé nǐ
Cannot be without you and me
离不开 (cannot separate from) · 我 (me) · 和 (and) · 你 (you)

Quotes about rains:
“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.

You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.

Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.

Whenever it rains you will think of her. ”
― Neil Gaiman

“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Poetry is just so emo,’ he said. ‘Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
― John Green
These quotes are from:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/rain

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