殘酷遊戲 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 衛蘭

Lyrics & Translation

[Chinese]

[English]

誰能用毅力便換來感情

Who can exchange love with perseverance?

誰憑施捨可保得住慘勝

Who can save a narrow victory just by giving?

你有多大量 亦未敢領我的情

No matter how much you have, you still can't claim my love

但就算是惡夢 拒絕甦醒

But even in nightmares, I refuse to wake up

如何用玩命 換來溫柔

How to use life risking to gain tenderness

如何比她好 一樣不夠

How to be better than her, but still not enough

談情像奮鬥 共誰在鬥

Loving feels like a battle, fighting with whom?

沒人道別亦知一早要走

No one says goodbye, yet we know we have to leave early

其實自命受苦都只因我能離不離

Actually, I claim to suffer only because I can choose to stay or leave

看著對你愛得彷似愛情欲避不避

Watching my love for you, like craving love but avoiding it

若能耗盡力氣 去捕捉你

If I can exhaust my strength to catch you

亦能剩下自己可挽救自己

I can also be left with myself, able to save myself

我也知越是幻想不准想你更記得起

I know the more I fantasize, the less I should think of you, but I remember more

我在故意去將苦澀替代寂寞滋味

I intentionally turn bitterness into the flavor of loneliness

用殘酷遊戲 製造卑微

Using a cruel game to create humility

自由自在莫非慘過永遠受氣

Isn't true freedom worse than forever being scolded?

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對你怎麼好 亦無所圖

No matter how good I am to you, I have no motives

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同情分多少 都也得到

How much compassion I give, I also get back

明明避過你 未憑命數

Clearly avoiding you, yet it's not my fate

明明極易活得比死更好

Clearly, living better than dying is so easy

我也知越是幻想不准想你更記得起

I know the more I fantasize, the less I should think of you, but I remember more

我在故意去將苦澀替代寂寞滋味

I intentionally turn bitterness into the flavor of loneliness

用殘酷遊戲 製造卑微

Using a cruel game to create humility

自由自在莫非慘過永遠自欺

Isn't true freedom worse than forever deceiving oneself?

我也知道遠處有人愛惜我

I also know there’s someone far away who cares for me

也知做人無求最好不過

Also know that it’s best not to demand anything from life

我肯知錯也是錯 我想知道也做到

I admit that knowing I’m wrong is still wrong; I want to know and to do

埋頭事業便令大家好過

Focusing on work makes everyone better off

其實自命受苦都只因我能離不離

Actually, claiming to suffer only because I can choose to stay or leave

看著對你愛得彷似愛情欲避不避

Watching my love for you, like craving love but avoiding it

若能耗盡力氣 去捕捉你

If I can exhaust my strength to catch you

亦明如何才可釋放我傷悲

I also understand how I can release my sorrow

我也知越是幻想不准想你更記得起

I know the more I fantasize, the less I should think of you, but I remember more

我在故意去將苦澀替代寂寞滋味

I intentionally turn bitterness into the flavor of loneliness

用殘酷遊戲 製造卑微

Using a cruel game to create humility

自由自在莫非慘過永遠受氣

Isn't true freedom worse than forever being scolded?

若然被嫌棄 也是天理

If being despised is fate

自憐自虐自討苦吃貴客自理

Self-pity, self-abuse, craving for trouble, guests handle their own affairs

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
毅力 (yìlì) /iːˈlɪk/ B2	noun - perseverance, willpower
感情 (gǎnqíng) /ɡan˨˩ t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˥/ A2	noun - feeling, emotion, affection
施捨 (shīshě) /ʂɻ̩˥ ʂɤ/ C1	verb - to give alms, to bestow
惡夢 (è mèng) /ɤ mɤŋ/ B1	noun - nightmare
玩命 (wánmìng) /wan mɪŋ/ C1	verb - to risk one's life, to go all out
溫柔 (wēnróu) /wənrǒu/ B1	adjective - gentle, tender
談情 (tánqíng) /tʰǎnt͡ɕʰɪŋ/ B2	verb - to talk about love, to court
奮鬥 (fèndòu) /fɤntoʊ/ B1	verb - to strive, to struggle
道別 (dàobié) /taʊ̯⁵¹pi̯ɛ³⁵/ B1	verb - to say goodbye
苦 (kǔ) /ku/ A2	adjective - bitter, hardship
愛情 (àiqíng) /aɪ t͡ɕʰɪŋ/ A2	noun - love
力氣 (lìqì) /lɪ t͡ɕʰi/ A2	noun - strength, effort
幻想 (huànxiǎng) /hwan ɕi̯aŋ/ B1	noun - illusion, fantasy
苦澀 (kǔsè) /kʰùsɤ/ B2	adjective - bitter and astringent, pained
寂寞 (jìmò) /t͡ɕi mwo/ B1	adjective - lonely, solitary
遊戲 (yóuxì) /joʊɕi/ A1	noun - game
卑微 (bēiwēi) /peɪweɪ/ B2	adjective - humble, lowly
自由 (zìyóu) /tsi joʊ/ A2	adjective - free, liberty
事業 (shìyè) /ʂʐ̩ jɛ/ B1	noun - career, undertaking
嫌棄 (xiánqì) /ɕi̯ɛn t͡ɕʰi/ B2	verb - to dislike, to despise
自憐 (zìlián) /tsɨ li̯ɛn/ B2	verb - self-pity
自虐 (zìnüè) /tsi ny̯œ/ C1	verb - self-inflicted suffering, self-harm
苦吃 (kǔchī) /kʰut͡ʂʰɨ/ B2	verb - to suffer hardship