夜曲 Nocturne – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: 周杰倫 Jay Chou

Lyrics & Translation

[Chinese]

[English]

夜曲

Nocturne

作詞：方文山 作曲：周杰倫

Lyrics: Vincent Fang, Music: Jay Chou

演唱：周杰倫

Singer: Jay Chou

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一群嗜血的螞蟻

A swarm of bloodthirsty ants

被腐肉所吸引

Drawn to the rotting flesh

我面無表情 看孤獨的風景

I stare blankly, watching the lonely scenery

失去你 愛恨開始分明

Losing you, love and hate become distinct

失去你 還有什麼事好關心

Losing you, what else is there to care about?

當鴿子不再象徵和平

When doves no longer symbolize peace

我終於被提醒

I'm finally reminded

廣場上餵食的是禿鷹

That vultures are being fed in the square

我用漂亮的押韻

I use beautiful rhymes

形容被掠奪一空的愛情

To describe a love that's been completely plundered

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啊 烏雲開始遮蔽

Ah, dark clouds begin to cover

夜色不乾淨

The night is unclean

公園裡 葬禮的回音

In the park, echoes of a funeral

在漫天飛行

Flying all over the sky

送你的 白玫瑰

The white roses I gave you

在純黑的環境中凋零

Wither in a pitch-black environment

烏鴉在樹枝上詭異的很安靜

Crows are eerily quiet on the branches

靜靜聽 我黑色的大衣

Listen quietly, my black coat

想溫暖你 日漸冰冷的回憶

Wants to warm your increasingly cold memories

走過的 走過的生命

The life that has passed, that has passed

啊 四周瀰漫霧氣 啊

Ah, mist surrounds me, ah

我在空曠的墓地

I'm in an empty graveyard

老去後還愛你

Still loving you even in my old age

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為你彈奏蕭邦的夜曲

I play Chopin's nocturne for you

紀念我死去的愛情

To commemorate my dead love

跟夜風一樣的聲音

A sound like the night wind

心碎的很好聽

The heartbreak sounds so beautiful

手在鍵盤敲很輕

My hands tap the keys so lightly

我給的思念很小心

My longing for you is so careful

你埋葬的地方叫幽冥

The place you're buried is called the underworld

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為你彈奏蕭邦的夜曲

I play Chopin's nocturne for you

紀念我死去的愛情

To commemorate my dead love

而我為你隱姓埋名

And for you, I live in anonymity

在月光下彈琴

Playing the piano in the moonlight

對你心跳的感應

The feeling of my heart beating for you

還是如此溫熱親近

Is still so warm and close

懷念你那鮮紅的唇印

I miss your bright red lipstick mark

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那些斷翅的蜻蜓

Those dragonflies with broken wings

散落在這森林

Scattered in this forest

而我的眼睛 沒有絲毫同情

And my eyes show no sympathy

失去你 淚水混濁不清

Losing you, my tears are turbid and unclear

失去你 我連笑容都有陰影

Losing you, even my smile has a shadow

風在長滿青苔的屋頂

The wind on the moss-covered rooftop

嘲笑我的傷心

Ridicules my sadness

像一口沒有水的枯井

Like a dry well without water

我用淒美的字型

I use a mournful font

描繪後悔莫及的愛情

To depict a love filled with regret

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為你彈奏蕭邦的夜曲

I play Chopin's nocturne for you

紀念我死去的愛情

To commemorate my dead love

跟夜風一樣的聲音

A sound like the night wind

心碎的很好聽

The heartbreak sounds so beautiful

手在鍵盤敲很輕

My hands tap the keys so lightly

我給的思念很小心

My longing for you is so careful

你埋葬的地方叫幽冥

The place you're buried is called the underworld

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為你彈奏蕭邦的夜曲

I play Chopin's nocturne for you

紀念我死去的愛情

To commemorate my dead love

而我為你隱姓埋名

And for you, I live in anonymity

在月光下彈琴

Playing the piano in the moonlight

對你心跳的感應

The feeling of my heart beating for you

還是如此溫熱親近

Is still so warm and close

懷念你那鮮紅的唇印

I miss your bright red lipstick mark

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一群嗜血的螞蟻

A swarm of bloodthirsty ants

被腐肉所吸引

Drawn to the rotting flesh

我面無表情 看孤獨的風景

I stare blankly, watching the lonely scenery

失去你 愛恨開始分明

Losing you, love and hate become distinct

失去你 還有什麼事好關心

Losing you, what else is there to care about?

當鴿子不再象徵和平

When doves no longer symbolize peace

我終於被提醒

I'm finally reminded

廣場上餵食的是禿鷹

That vultures are being fed in the square

我用漂亮的押韻

I use beautiful rhymes

形容被掠奪一空的愛情

To describe a love that's been completely plundered

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
夜曲 (yèqǔ) /jɛ̂ t͡ɕʰỳ/ B2	noun - nocturne
螞蟻 (mǎyǐ) /mà ì/ A1	noun - ant
腐肉 (fǔròu) /fù rôu/ B2	noun - carrion, rotten meat
孤獨 (gūdú) /gū dú/ B1	adjective - lonely, solitary
風景 (fēngjǐng) /fə́ŋ t͡ɕìŋ/ A2	noun - scenery, landscape
鴿子 (gēzi) /kɤ́ t͡sz̩/ A2	noun - pigeon, dove
和平 (hépíng) /xɤ̌ pʰǐŋ/ A2	noun - peace
廣場 (guǎngchǎng) /kwàŋ t͡ʂʰàŋ/ B1	noun - square, plaza
禿鷹 (tūyīng) /tʰú íŋ/ B2	noun - vulture
掠奪 (lüèduó) /ly̯ê twǒ/ C1	verb - to plunder, to rob
烏雲 (wūyún) /ū y̌n/ B1	noun - dark cloud
葬禮 (zànglǐ) /tsâŋ lì/ B1	noun - funeral
回音 (huíyīn) /xwěi ín/ B1	noun - echo, reverberation
凋零 (diāolíng) /tjáo lǐŋ/ C1	verb - to wither, to decline
烏鴉 (wūyā) /ū jā/ A2	noun - crow, raven
詭異 (guǐyì) /kwèi î/ C1	adjective - weird, strange, uncanny
溫暖 (wēnnuǎn) /wə́n nwàn/ A2	adjective - warm
霧氣 (wùqì) /wû t͡ɕʰî/ B1	noun - fog, mist
墓地 (mùdì) /mû tî/ B1	noun - cemetery, graveyard
心碎 (xīnsuì) /ɕín swêi/ B2	noun - heartbreak
埋葬 (máizàng) /mǎi tsâŋ/ B2	verb - to bury
幽冥 (yōumíng) /jóu mǐŋ/ C1	noun - netherworld, underworld
月光 (yuèguāng) /y̯œ̂ kwáŋ/ A2	noun - moonlight
懷念 (huáiniàn) /xwǎi njân/ B2	verb - to cherish the memory of, to miss
鮮紅 (xiānhóng) /ɕjɛ́n xʊ̌ŋ/ B1	adjective - bright red, scarlet
唇印 (chúnyìn) /ʈʂʰwə̌n în/ B2	noun - lip print, kiss mark
蜻蜓 (qīngtíng) /t͡ɕʰíŋ tʰǐŋ/ A2	noun - dragonfly
森林 (sēnlín) /sə́n lǐn/ A2	noun - forest
青苔 (qīngtái) /t͡ɕʰíŋ tʰái/ B1	noun - moss
屋頂 (wūdǐng) /ú tìŋ/ A2	noun - roof
枯井 (kūjǐng) /kʰū t͡ɕìŋ/ B2	noun - dry well
淒美 (qīměi) /t͡ɕʰí mɛ̀i/ C1	adjective - tragically beautiful, poignant
後悔莫及 (hòuhuǐ mòjí) /xôu xwèi mô t͡ɕí/ C2	idiom - too late for regrets, to regret bitterly

Key Grammar Structures

• 被腐肉所吸引

  ➔ Passive voice with "被"

  ➔ The grammar structure "被…所…" indicates passive voice. Here, "被腐肉所吸引" means "attracted by the carrion". "被" introduces the agent of the action, and "所" emphasizes the action.

• 還有什麼事好關心

  ➔ "還有...好..." structure (what else is worth doing)

  ➔ The structure "還有什麼事好關心" means "What else is worth caring about?". "好" indicates that the action is worth doing.

• 我用漂亮的押韻 形容被掠奪一空的愛情

  ➔ Using "用" to describe the means of doing something.

  ➔ "我用漂亮的押韻" indicates the method used: "I use beautiful rhymes". "用" means "to use". The phrase "被掠奪一空的愛情" uses passive voice, describing the love being completely plundered.

• 想溫暖你 日漸冰冷的回憶

  ➔ Adjective as verb

  ➔ The sentence "想溫暖你 日漸冰冷的回憶" uses "溫暖" (warm) as a verb, meaning "to warm". It expresses the intention to warm the increasingly cold memories.

• 老去後還愛你

  ➔ "後" (hou) indicating after a state or action.

  ➔ "老去後還愛你" means "Even after growing old, I will still love you". "後" indicates "after" the state of growing old.

• 紀念我死去的愛情

  ➔ Verb + "的" + Noun (modifying noun)

  ➔ "死去的愛情" (sǐqù de àiqíng) - "dead love". "死去的" modifies "愛情", meaning "the love that has died".

• 我給的思念很小心

  ➔ S-V-O with adjectival complement to object. Giving is done carefully.

  ➔ "我給的思念很小心" means "The longing I give is very careful". "小心" (xiǎoxīn) is an adjective modifying "思念" (sīniàn), the object of the verb "給" (gěi).

• 對你心跳的感應 還是如此溫熱親近

  ➔ The use of "如此" (rúcǐ) to mean "so", "like this" or "such".

  ➔ The phrase "如此溫熱親近" uses "如此" to emphasize the degree of warmth and closeness. "如此" here means "so" or "this much".