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

• By: Edan 呂爵安

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the beauty of heartfelt expression in Edan Lui's “油麻地莎士比亞.” This Cantopop ballad celebrates the power of sincerity over eloquence, teaching you how simple, genuine words can convey profound emotions. Dive into Hong Kong culture and learn to express your feelings from the heart.

[English]

How I long to be your refrigerator

Opened by you every day

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

Open wide, I am the side dish

This metaphor, no matter how funny when read

Is actually passed down to this very day

I write a poem with dozens of words

Using all the most cliché but heartfelt slang

Who says you must be educated

To write poems for you every day

Compare Du Fu, surpass Yeats

Even a little poem full of typos

That love is thicker than Shakespeare’s every verse

Ordinary people can’t understand, call it scrap paper

Unbelievable love, the deepest in the world

With attitude, even if words seem incredible

From a literary angle, it’s not shameful

I write a poem with dozens of words

Using all the most cliché but heartfelt slang

Who says you must be educated

To write poems for you every day

It’s really important to write three times

Even if a little poem is full of typos

That love is thicker than Shakespeare’s every verse

Ordinary people can’t understand, call it scrap paper

Mistaking the Poet King for a bad kid

Woo~~

I am a passionate man

Even without a Nobel

I dare to dream and create poetry

Say what I want without fear of words

Childish in kindergarten but yet sincere

Before the line is spoken, I already admit defeat

No matter how shocking, no one knows

This rough little poem

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

Roguishly, I can’t say beautiful lines

Please accept my creativity

Writing every day, 4,000 times over

Can you say “I am willing”

[Chinese]

多麽想 當你的雪櫃

天天都 被你開

餓了嗎 我裝滿各種愛

張開口 我是餸菜

這譬喻 就算讀來 多麽可笑

其實是通頂 度到今朝

我用數十個字寫首詩

用盡了 最俗套 但溫馨 的俚語

誰人話 必須 要讀過書

方可每日為你寫詩

賽杜甫 勝葉慈

縱是滿是錯字的小詩

那份愛 卻是厚過 莎翁每首詩

凡人讀不懂 說是廢紙

不解 世上最深 愛意

有態度 就算用詞 不可思議

從文學角度 未算可恥

我用數十個字寫首詩

用盡了 最俗套 但溫馨 的俚語

誰人話 必須 要讀過書

方可每日為你寫詩

實在重要的 寫三次

縱是滿是錯字的小詩

那份愛 卻是厚過 莎翁每首詩

凡人讀不懂 說是廢紙

將詩聖 誤作 壞孩子

Woo~~

我是個 熱血男兒

縱沒有 拿諾貝爾

仍敢發夢 就有詩

有話說 又哪懼 沒言辭

幼稚過 幼稚園 亦不損我真摯

台詞未開口 已認了輸

多麽震撼也 沒人知

這段接近 粗鄙的小詩

要是你 眼內有我 是濃情蜜意

流氓唸不出 美麗句子

都請接納我的 創意

天天寫 寫夠 四千次

可否講 「我願意」

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".