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LYRICS INFO
ARTIST: 张韶涵/Zhang Shao Han/Angela Zhang
TITLE: 不想懂得/Bu Xiang Dong De/Don't Wish To Know
COMPOSER: 动静音乐/Dong Jing Yin Yue
LYRICIST: 姚若龙/Yao Ruo Long
ALBUM: Ang 5.0

English translation and pinyin version of the song. Kinda late, I guess...

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 HEy!! my first post here and I have a few translations to share. They all link to my journal posts. Most of them will have the mp3 available for download too, either on the same post or another post on my journal.

最好的朋友 (Best Friend) - 品冠 Victor Wong Pin Guan
人间 (Mortal World) - 王菲 Faye Wong
隐形的翅膀 (Invisible Wings) - 张韶涵 Angela Zhang Shao Han
周大侠 (Big Hero Chou) - 周杰伦 Jay Zhou Jie Lun
天黑黑 (The Sky is Dark) - 孙燕资 Stephanie Sun Yan Zi
爸~我回来了 (Father~ I'm back) - 周杰伦 Jay Zhou Jie Lun
陪我看日出 (Accompany me to wee the sunrise) - 蔡淳佳 Cai Chun Jia
向左走 向右走 (Turn left, turn right) - 梁咏琪 Gigi Leung

Enjoy!

Nice song. Nothing much to say today.

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I'm back from Hong Kong (had a great time) so I will return to my daily translations now. I hope you missed me, pho50. ;)

It's amazing how much Chinese slang comes from video games nowadays! "必殺技" in fighting games is someone's special finishing move or KO skill. Hmm, perhaps slang isn't the right word? "必殺技" means "must kill feat" (to be most literal and ignore the grammatical requirements of English) so it's not really slang, is it?

This is a cover of the Zac Efron song "Bet On It" from High School Musical 2. For promotion in Chinese markets, Disney got Show Luo to record this as a bonus track on the soundtrack and also it got heavy rotation on MTV and VMusic. The video.

Translating this song has made me realize how atheistic it really is, lol.

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As I've mentioned before, Taiwan like the rest of the world is having an indie explosion, meaning that all the indie acts are now signed to major labels, which accords me some snarky satisfaction. Deserts is one of these, with a quiet alt-folk style that belies her personal image (she's a high-school dropout which makes her fabulously scandalous in Taiwan).

The song that gained her fame is Baobei/Baby, which she actually wrote the first version of when she was 13 years old. Very sweet and simple lyrics, it is like a lullaby. There are two versions of the song on her album, "in the night" and "in the day". The lyrics are shorter in "in the night", but otherwise unchanged, so here translated is the "in the day" version. The words used here are very intimate and affectionate, so I tried to get the same kind of word choice in English.

( Traditional and English )

Joanna Wang is newly popular, and I don't know a lot about her. She's young (I think 18) but she has a very distinctive, smoky voice. Her style is bossa nova, lounge, that kind of thing. She mostly sings in English, but she's done five songs in Mandarin on the second CD of her January album "Start From Here." Her song "You Ni de Kuaile" was requested on cpop recently, so I uploaded the album, but the request was answered already. So I thought I would translate the song.

She's a lot like Jyotsna Peng Jing Hui, but more poppy and less jazzy. I find Jyotsna's voice more relaxing and Joanna's voice more suitable for listening to when you're working.

( Maybe I should go back and edit my old translations instead of making new ones? Nahhhh )

Quickie translation. I need to do some editing on my previous translations too.

青春　它沒得撿
懊悔　總在那一瞬之間消失無煙
浪費　是誰的罪
破滅　不過是反覆千遍萬遍的每一天

做得到做不到　無關緊要
是向前進向後退　步步煎熬

I force myself to think in English
then I will not think too much
I force myself to think in English
then I will not think too much

裝備　是為了誰
敷衍　是誰的懦弱表現不敢往前
迂迴　美好的錯覺
枯萎　還有多少個春天能讓一切重演

做得到做不到　無關緊要
是向前進向後退　步步煎熬

I force myself to think in English
then I will not think too much [x4]
But I still remain unsatisfied
Have you ever thought of the reason why
You should make more efforts to get the answer, she said [x2]
Don't let days go by

ENGLISH:
spring, it hasn't gathered in
remorse, always disappears in a wink without a trace
waste, whose fault is it?
destruction, is merely turning something over a billion times every day

possible, impossible, insignificant
it's in front and behind, tortured at every step

I FORCE MYSELF TO THINK IN ENGLISH
THEN I WILL NOT THINK TOO MUCH [x2]

equipment, who's it for?
skimping, it's someone's cowardly display of not daring to move forward
round-about, a happy misunderstanding
withered, how many springs are there yet to make everything repeat?

possible, impossible, insignificant
it's in front and behind, tortured at every step

I FORCE MYSELF TO THINK IN ENGLISH
THEN I WILL NOT THINK TOO MUCH [x4]
BUT I STILL REMAIN UNSATISFIED
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF THE REASON WHY
YOU SHOULD MAKE MORE EFFORT TO GET THE ANSWER, SHE SAID [x2]
DON'T LET DAYS GO BY

Request by pho50! Yay! I love requests! :D
The Chinese language allows one to forms sentences without pronouns in cases where English does not. In these cases the pronoun is usually either inferred, or else the sentence means anyone in general. I have put the most likely pronoun in brackets to allow for English readability.

( Just simplified and English right now. )

This is really a rough draft, but I thought I would throw it up anyway.
Meanwhile lulz because the bio section on Mojim lists their members as the DJ, 女主唱 (lead female), 男主唱 (lead male) and RAPER. Uh I think you mean something else. I HOPE you do.

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