七百年後 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 陳奕迅
• Album: H3M

Lyrics & Translation

[Chinese]

[English]

你那太空艙 能夠發出金色的光

Your spacecraft shines with a golden glow

我廢置一方 抬頭便會為你守望

I have a forgotten corner, looking up to watch over you

一天天摧迫生活在現代化

Day by day, life in modern times is pressing on

繽紛星空拋低我寄存繁榮垃圾缸

Colorful stars lower me into a pile of prosperity's trash

多得你原諒我骯髒

Thanks to your forgiveness for my dirtiness

送你破黑膠 廉價發出歌聲依稀

I'll give you a broken black vinyl, faint sounds of singing

送你破燈泡 便宜地照亮你天地

I'll give you a broken light bulb, cheaply illuminating your world

一箱卡式帶一直沒落仍能回味

A box of cassette tapes still brings back memories

那套舊文藝戲

That old artsy film scene

生生不息的悽美愛情逾越物質跨過世紀

An enduring tragic love that transcends material possessions and crosses centuries

文明能壓碎 情懷不衰 無論枯乾山水

Civilization can crush emotions, but love remains strong, regardless of withered mountains and rivers

舊時年月投入垃圾裡 你我一起同居

Old times thrown into trash, you and I still coexist

仍然能送你 兒時玩具

Still able to give you childhood toys

老地方抱著一起安睡

Holding each other and sleeping peacefully in the old place

七百年 潮流裡 瞬息過去

Seven hundred years, flowing with the tides, passing in an instant

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棄置那棵花 容我帶它的根歸家

Abandon that flower, let me bring its roots home

送你這棵花 來懷念已逝去初夏

Giving you this flower to remember the early summer that has gone by

漆黑的星體花葉樹木無從留下

In the pitch-black cosmos, leaves, trees, and plants leave no trace behind

你會在流淚嗎？

Will you be crying?

花開的沙丘滋養我們貧窮地方優美似畫

The blooming sand dunes nourish our poor land, beautiful as a painting

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文明能壓碎 情懷不衰 無論枯乾山水

Civilization can crush emotions, but love remains strong, regardless of withered mountains and rivers

舊時年月投入垃圾裡 你我一起同居

Old times thrown into trash, you and I still coexist

仍然能送你 兒時玩具

Still able to give you childhood toys

老地方抱著一起安睡

Holding each other and sleeping peacefully in the old place

七百年 潮流裡 建築統統破碎

Seven hundred years, built structures are all broken in the tide

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天天進化熱潮已記不起

Every day, the tide of progress is so fast I can't remember

用霓虹去建設歡喜

Using neon lights to build joy

雖則你我被每粒星唾棄

Though you and I are despised by every star

我們貧乏卻去到金禧

We're poor but still reach the jubilees

文明能壓碎 情懷不衰 無論枯乾山水

Civilization can crush emotions, but love remains strong, regardless of withered mountains and rivers

舊時年月投入垃圾裡 你我一起同居

Old times thrown into trash, you and I still coexist

仍然能送你 兒時玩具

Still able to give you childhood toys

老地方抱著 一起安睡

Holding each other in the old place, sleeping peacefully again

七百年 隨年歲 記憶老去

Seven hundred years, as years pass, memories fade

仍然有你的忠心愛侶

But I still have your loyal love

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Key Grammar Structures

• 能夠發出金色的光

  ➔ Modal verb + 能夠 + verb (can/may + verb) to express ability or possibility

  ➔ The phrase uses the modal verb 能夠 (neng2 gou4) combined with a verb to indicate ability or possibility.

• 一天天摧迫生活在現代化

  ➔ Adverbial phrase + verb to indicate ongoing or repeated action (一天天 = day by day, gradually)

  ➔ The phrase 一天天 (one day at a time) functions as an adverbial to emphasize gradual or ongoing pressure or change.

• 文明能壓碎情懷不衰

  ➔ Noun + 能 + verb to express ability or capacity of the noun (文明 + 能 + 壓碎)

  ➔ This grammatical structure shows the noun's ability to perform the action expressed by the verb.

• 投入垃圾裡 你我一起同居

  ➔ Verb + 了 (le) + place particle + 里 (inside) to indicate movement into a place

  ➔ The use of 了 with a verb and a place particle indicates a completed action of entering or being inside.

• 仍然有你的忠心愛侶

  ➔ 仍然 + verb to indicate continuing or remaining (still/have still)

  ➔ The adverb 仍然 (still) is used with a verb to emphasize persistence or remaining state.