尋棋 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 阿YueYue

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

The silent vastness of the night sky, the stars twinkle.

Hold a ray of light in my hand as if it were a rainbow.

Let my heart be like emptiness, unable to fill the hole.

I still can't help but surrender to tears.

I will cross the crowd to search for your shadow.

There is no one in the world who can stay with me.

Saying that we deeply understand each other, but we have never embraced.

I turned away decisively and never looked back.

In this world of people, we can never meet.

But I can't promise to stay away from each other.

If we can meet again, I won't search anymore.

How much of my life can be wasted.

I will cross the crowd to search for your shadow.

There is no one in the world who can stay with me.

Saying that we deeply understand each other, but we have never embraced.

I turned away decisively and never looked back.

In this world of people, we can never meet.

But I can't promise to stay away from each other.

If we can meet again, I won't search anymore.

How much of my life can be wasted.

In this world of people, we can never meet.

But I can't promise to stay away from each other.

If we can meet again, I won't search anymore.

How much of my life can be wasted.

[Chinese]

沉寂的浩瀚夜空 星光閃動

捧一縷光入手中 當作你虹

任我心似空 填不滿的洞

淚還是忍不住失守

穿越人海去追尋 你的影蹤

世間再沒有人 與我相守

說感同深受 卻不曾相擁

決絕轉身不曾回頭

這世間人海裡 終不能和你相遇

卻也不能以身相許換別離

若再次能相遇 必不再尋尋覓覓

一生可以浪費有幾許

穿越人海去追尋 你的影蹤

世間再沒有人 與我相守

說感同深受 卻不曾相擁

決絕轉身不曾回頭

這世間人海裡 終不能和你相遇

卻也不能以身相許換別離

若再次能相遇 必不再尋尋覓覓

一生可以浪費有幾許

這世間人海裡 終不能和你相遇

卻也不能以身相許換別離

若再次能相遇 必不再尋尋覓覓

一生可以浪費有幾許

Key Grammar Structures

• 沉寂的浩瀚夜空 星光閃動

  ➔ 的 – possessive/attributive particle

  ➔ The particle "的" links the modifier "沉寂" to the noun phrase "浩瀚夜空".

• 捧一縷光入手中 當作你虹

  ➔ 當作 – to treat as / consider as

  ➔ The verb "當作" means "to regard something as"; here it translates “as a rainbow”.

• 任我心似空 填不滿的洞

  ➔ 似 – like / as (comparative)

  ➔ The word "似" introduces a simile: "心似空" = "heart is like emptiness".

• 淚還是忍不住失守

  ➔ 忍不住 – cannot help (doing something)

  ➔ "忍不住" expresses an uncontrollable urge: "cannot help shedding tears".

• 穿越人海去追尋 你的影蹤

  ➔ 去 + verb – purpose infinitive (to …)

  ➔ The pattern "去追尋" uses "去" before a verb to indicate the purpose “to chase”.

• 說感同深受 卻不曾相擁

  ➔ 不曾 – never before / not once

  ➔ "不曾" negates the verb, indicating that the action has never happened: "never embraced".

• 若再次能相遇 必不再尋尋覓覓

  ➔ 若 – if (conditional)

  ➔ "若" introduces a hypothetical condition: "If we meet again…".

• 一生可以浪費有幾許

  ➔ 有幾許 – how many / how much (quantifier)

  ➔ "有幾許" asks about quantity: “how many (or how much) can a lifetime waste?”.