油麻地莎士比亞 – Bilingual Lyrics Chinese/English

• By: Edan 呂爵安

Lyrics & Translation

[Chinese]

[English]

多麽想 當你的雪櫃

How I long to be your refrigerator

天天都 被你開

Opened by you every day

餓了嗎 我裝滿各種愛

Are you hungry? I fill it with all kinds of love

張開口 我是餸菜

Open wide, I am the side dish

這譬喻 就算讀來 多麽可笑

This metaphor, no matter how funny when read

其實是通頂 度到今朝

Is actually passed down to this very day

我用數十個字寫首詩

I write a poem with dozens of words

用盡了 最俗套 但溫馨 的俚語

Using all the most cliché but heartfelt slang

誰人話 必須 要讀過書

Who says you must be educated

方可每日為你寫詩

To write poems for you every day

賽杜甫 勝葉慈

Compare Du Fu, surpass Yeats

縱是滿是錯字的小詩

Even a little poem full of typos

那份愛 卻是厚過 莎翁每首詩

That love is thicker than Shakespeare’s every verse

凡人讀不懂 說是廢紙

Ordinary people can’t understand, call it scrap paper

不解 世上最深 愛意

Unbelievable love, the deepest in the world

有態度 就算用詞 不可思議

With attitude, even if words seem incredible

從文學角度 未算可恥

From a literary angle, it’s not shameful

我用數十個字寫首詩

I write a poem with dozens of words

用盡了 最俗套 但溫馨 的俚語

Using all the most cliché but heartfelt slang

誰人話 必須 要讀過書

Who says you must be educated

方可每日為你寫詩

To write poems for you every day

實在重要的 寫三次

It’s really important to write three times

縱是滿是錯字的小詩

Even if a little poem is full of typos

那份愛 卻是厚過 莎翁每首詩

That love is thicker than Shakespeare’s every verse

凡人讀不懂 說是廢紙

Ordinary people can’t understand, call it scrap paper

將詩聖 誤作 壞孩子

Mistaking the Poet King for a bad kid

Woo~~

Woo~~

我是個 熱血男兒

I am a passionate man

縱沒有 拿諾貝爾

Even without a Nobel

仍敢發夢 就有詩

I dare to dream and create poetry

有話說 又哪懼 沒言辭

Say what I want without fear of words

幼稚過 幼稚園 亦不損我真摯

Childish in kindergarten but yet sincere

台詞未開口 已認了輸

Before the line is spoken, I already admit defeat

多麽震撼也 沒人知

No matter how shocking, no one knows

這段接近 粗鄙的小詩

This rough little poem

要是你 眼內有我 是濃情蜜意

If you see me in your eyes, it’s deep love

流氓唸不出 美麗句子

Roguishly, I can’t say beautiful lines

都請接納我的 創意

Please accept my creativity

天天寫 寫夠 四千次

Writing every day, 4,000 times over

可否講 「我願意」

Can you say “I am willing”

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
詩 /shī/ A2	noun - poem
愛 /ài/ A1	noun - love
夢 /mèng/ A2	noun - dream
錯字 /cuò zì/ B1	noun - typo
創意 /chuàng yì/ B2	noun - creativity
重要 /zhòng yào/ B1	adjective - important
熱血 /rè xuè/ B2	adjective - passionate
句子 /jù zǐ/ A2	noun - sentence
台詞 /tái cí/ B1	noun - lines (in a play)
濃情蜜意 /nóng qíng mì yì/ C1	phrase - deep affection
廢紙 /fèi zhǐ/ B2	noun - waste paper
可笑 /kě xiào/ B1	adjective - ridiculous
文學 /wén xué/ B2	noun - literature
態度 /tài dù/ B1	noun - attitude
粗鄙 /cū bǐ/ C1	adjective - vulgar
厚 /hòu/ B2	adjective - thick

Key Grammar Structures

• 多麽想 當你的雪櫃

  ➔ 使用「多麽」來表示程度，意味著「how much/how ...」。

  ➔ 「多麽」 emphasizes the degree of 想 (thinking/desiring), meaning "how much I want...".

• 我用數十個字寫首詩

  ➔ 使用「用...寫」來表達「用某種方式創作」的結構，表示手段或工具。

  ➔ The phrase 「用...寫」 indicates the use of specific means or tools to create the poem.

• 誰人話 必須 要讀過書

  ➔ 使用「必須 要」來構成「必須」的表達，表示必要性或義務。

  ➔ The phrase 「必須 要」 indicates that it is necessary or obligatory to do something, like reading books.

• 縱是滿是錯字的小詩

  ➔ 使用「縱是...」來表示「即使...也...」，表達讓步的意思。

  ➔ The phrase 「縱是...」 indicates concession, meaning "even if..." or "even though...".

• 可否講 「我願意」

  ➔ 使用「可否」來表示請求或允許，等同於「can you」或「may I」。

  ➔ The phrase 「可否講」 is used to politely ask for permission or if something is acceptable, as in "May I" or "Can you".