Alone – Bilingual Lyrics English/Chinese

• By: Rhys Lewis

Lyrics & Translation

Learning a language is about connecting with new cultures and perspectives, and music is a fantastic gateway. Rhys Lewis's song 'Alone' offers a unique opportunity to explore nuanced English expression. While the lyrics are straightforward, they beautifully convey a complex emotion: the positive and uplifting feeling of choosing to be alone. Through this song, you can learn vocabulary related to escapism and self-reflection, and appreciate how a single word's meaning can be reshaped by context, from something negative to a source of strength and joy.

[Chinese]

你是否曾感觉想要逃跑

抛开生活重新开始？

你是否曾想要逃离

如果离开第一缕光，你会去哪里？

你会追随阳光奔向海岸吗？

如果离开第一缕光，你会去哪里？

因为有些日子我醒来满身恐惧

希望自己在任何地方都比这里好

我渴望海洋的寒冷

在某个瞬间迷失自我

在那里，孤单一人

在黑暗中

只有星光能到达的黑暗

身处遥远的世界，我在做梦

在无人知晓的地方

因为我觉得需要独处

孤独，孤独

孤单，孤单

你害怕自己开始得太晚了吗？

你应该犯更好的错

你害怕自己开始得太晚了吗？

因为有些日子我醒来满身恐惧

希望自己在任何地方都比这里好

我渴望海洋的寒冷

在某个瞬间迷失自我

在那里，孤单一人

在黑暗中

只有星光能到达的黑暗

身处遥远的世界，我在做梦

在无人知晓的地方

因为我觉得需要独处

孤单，孤单

孤单，孤单

孤单，孤单

孤单，孤单

你是否曾感觉想要逃跑

抛开生活重新开始

你是否曾想要奔跑、奔跑、再跑

孤单，孤单

...

孤单，孤单

...

[English]

Do you ever feel like running away

Leaving your life behind and starting again?

Do you ever feel like running away

And if you left the first light, where would you go?

Would you follow the sun and head for the coast?

If you left the first light, where would you go?

'Cause some days I wake up full of all this fear

Wishing that I was anywhere but here

I'm craving for the freezing cold of an ocean

To be somewhere lost in the moment

Out there on my own

In the darkness

That only starlight reaches

A world away, I'm dreaming

In the place that no one knows

'Cause I feel like being alone

Alone, alone

Alone, alone

Are you scared you started living too late?

That you should've been making better mistakes

Are you scared you started living too late?

'Cause some days I wake up full of all this fear

Wishing that I was anywhere but here

I'm craving for the freezing cold of an ocean

To be somewhere lost in a moment

Out there on my own

In a darkness

That only starlight reaches

A world away, I'm dreaming

In a place that no one knows

'Cause I feel like being alone

Alone, alone

Alone, alone

Alone, alone

Alone, alone

Do you ever feel like running away

Leaving your life behind and starting again

Do you ever feel like running, running, running, running away

Alone, alone

Alone, alone

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
feel /fiːl/ A2	verb - 感受
run /rʌn/ A1	verb - 跑
leave /liːv/ A2	verb - 离开
life /laɪf/ A1	noun - 生命
alone /əˈloʊn/ A2	adjective - 独自
darkness /ˈdɑːrk.nəs/ B1	noun - 黑暗
dream /driːm/ B1	verb - 梦想
scared /skɛrd/ B1	adjective - 害怕
crave /kreɪv/ B2	verb - 渴望
moment /ˈmoʊ.mənt/ B1	noun - 时刻
fear /fɪr/ A2	noun - 恐惧
ocean /ˈoʊ.ʃən/ A2	noun - 海洋
place /pleɪs/ A1	noun - 地方
world /wɜːrld/ A1	noun - 世界
sun /sʌn/ A1	noun - 太阳
coast /koʊst/ B1	noun - 海岸

Key Grammar Structures

• Do you ever feel like running away

  ➔ 一般现在时, 'ever' 和 'like' + 动名词

  ➔ 使用一般现在时和"ever"来询问重复或习惯性的感受。"Like running away" 使用 "like" 来表达享受或倾向，后跟动名词 "running away"。

• Leaving your life behind and starting again?

  ➔ 现在分词（动名词）作为省略关系子句，以及连词“and”

  ➔ “Leaving”和“Starting”是现在分词，充当省略关系子句，修饰前一行的“running away”。相当于说“running away，它会把你的生活抛在身后并重新开始”。“And”连接两个动作。

• If you left the first light, where would you go?

  ➔ 第二条件句

  ➔ 这里使用第二条件句来谈论现在或未来假设的或不太可能发生的情况。“If you left...”（一般过去时）设定条件，“where would you go?”（would + 动词原形）表示结果。

• Wishing that I was anywhere but here

  ➔ 愿望从句（虚拟语气）

  ➔ 这表达了对与现实相反的现在状况的愿望。使用“was”代替“were”在非正式英语中很常见，尽管“were”在虚拟语气中在语法上更正确。

• I'm craving for the freezing cold of an ocean

  ➔ 现在进行时（渴望），介词'for'

  ➔ “I'm craving”使用现在进行时强调渴望的强度和当前状态。介词“for”表示正在渴望的事物。

• To be somewhere lost in the moment

  ➔ 不定式（目的），过去分词

  ➔ “To be somewhere”是一个不定式短语，表达目的或意图。“Lost”是一个过去分词，充当形容词，描述状态（在当下“迷失”的某个地方）。

• That only starlight reaches

  ➔ 带有“that”的关系从句

  ➔ “That only starlight reaches”是一个关系从句，修饰前一行的名词“darkness”。 “That”充当关系代词，将从句与其描述的名词连接起来。 它指定了说话者所指的黑暗。

• Are you scared you started living too late?

  ➔ “scared”后面的名词性从句中的一般过去时

  ➔ “You started living too late”是一个名词性从句，充当形容词“scared”的宾语。 一般过去时“started”指的是过去开始的动作，名词性从句表达了恐惧的*内容*。