Jay Chou: Waiting for you (English translation) / 周杰倫：等你 ...

Jay Chou: Waiting for you (English translation) / 周杰倫：等你下課（英文翻譯）. Posted on 2018-01-26 2018-06-08 by Eldon Reeves ... Skiptocontent EldonReeves Chinese-EnglishTranslation·Composition Thelyricshereareprettyeasy,andwerewrittenbyJayhimself,aswithhisnewestsong“Ifyoudon’tloveme,it’sfine”.Theylackthepoetry(andrhyme)ofVincentFang’slyrics,butforMandarinlearners,Iguessthey’reprettygreat.Thisismymostlynon-literaltranslation,withsomenotesinsquarebrackets. (周) 你住的巷子裡我租了一間公寓 I’verentedaflatinthestreetwhereyoulive 爲了想與你不期而遇 Sothatwemightmeetbychance 高中三年我爲什麽爲什麽不好好讀書 Inthethirdyearofhighschool,whydidn’tIstudyharder? 沒考上跟你一樣的大學 Icouldn’tgetintothesameuniversityasyou [Lit.“Notexam-upwithyousameuniversity”;otherexamplesofpatternslike“跟你一樣”here.] 我找了份工作離你宿舍很近 Ifoundajobthatwasnearyourdorm 當我開始學會做蛋餅才發現你不吃早餐 WhenIstartedtolearnhowtomakeomelette,Ifoundthatyoudon’teatbreakfast 喔你又擦肩而過 Oh,youpassedmebyagain 你耳機聼什麽能不能告訴我 Couldyoutellmewhatyou’relisteningto[onyourearphones]? #CHORUS(合) 躺在你學校的操場看星空 Lyingintheplaygroundatyourschoolwatchingthestars 教室裡的燈還亮著你沒走 Thelightswerestillonintheclassroom[because]youwerestillthere 記得我寫給你的情書 RemembertheloveletterthatIwrotetoyou? 都什麽年代了到現在我還在寫著 Whatyearisitnow?Evennow,I’mstillwritingit 總有一天總有一年會發現 Someday[someyear]you’llrealise 有人默默的陪在你的身邊 Therewassomeoneatyourside[insilence] 也許我不該在你的世界 PerhapsIshouldn’tbeinyourworld 當你收到情書也代表我已經走遠 Whenyou’vegetmyloveletter,it’llmeanI’mfaraway (楊) 學校旁的廣場我在這等鐘聲響 Iwaswaitinginthesquarebytheschoolforthebelltoring 等你下課一起走好嗎 Waitingforyoutogetoutofclass–“wouldyouliketowalkwithme?” (合) 彈著琴唱你愛的歌暗戀一點都不痛苦 Playingthepiano,singingthesongyoulove,thecrushdidn’thurtatall 痛苦的是你根本沒看我 Whathurtsisyoudidn’tevenlookatme 我唱這麽走心卻走不進你心裡 I’msinglysotouchingly,butIcan’tgetintoyourheart [Note:thereisasortofpunhere,since‘touchingly’isliterally‘walkheart’] 在人來人往找尋著你守護著你不求結局 ThroughthebustlingcrowdsI’mlookingforyou,protectingyou[unconditionally] [Note:‘unconditionally’mightbemorelike‘withoutanulteriormotive’] 喔你又擦肩而過 Oh,youpassedmebyagain 我唱告白氣球終於你回了頭 Ising[mysong]‘LoveConfession’[and]youfinallyturnaround [Note:告白氣球/LoveConfessionisasongfromJayChou’slastalbum] #CHORUS Clickhereforothersongtranslations(includingJayChou’snewestsong“Ifyoudon’tloveme,it’sfine”) Postnavigation PianoArrangement:CianwoodSea(Pokémon GSC)Mayday:BeginningoftheEnd/終於結束的起點(English Translation) 4thoughtson“JayChou:Waitingforyou(Englishtranslation)/ 周杰倫：等你下課（英文翻譯）” Pingback:JayChou:WhatKindofMan/你算什麼男人–EnglishTranslation–EldonReeves Pingback:JayChou:Ifyoudon’tloveme,it’sfine(不愛我就拉倒)–EnglishTranslation–EldonReeves Pingback:CrowdLu:CafeteriaFeliz/開心餐廳–EnglishTranslation–EldonReeves Pingback:Chinese:themanywaysofexpressingsimilitude–EldonReeves WriteacommentCancelreply Enteryourcommenthere... Fillinyourdetailsbeloworclickanicontologin: Email(required)(Addressnevermadepublic) Name(required) Website YouarecommentingusingyourWordPress.comaccount. ( Log Out /  Change ) YouarecommentingusingyourGoogleaccount. ( Log Out /  Change ) YouarecommentingusingyourTwitteraccount. ( Log Out /  Change ) YouarecommentingusingyourFacebookaccount. ( Log Out /  Change ) Cancel Connectingto%s Notifymeofnewcommentsviaemail.Notifymeofnewpostsviaemail. Δ ThissiteusesAkismettoreducespam.Learnhowyourcommentdataisprocessed. EldonReeves:Links Soundcloud Twitter Youtube Categories Languages(29) Japanese(3) MandarinGrammar(1) Mandarinsongtranslations(23) CrowdLu/盧廣仲(9) HebeTien/田馥甄(1) JamHsiao/蕭敬騰(1) JayChou/周杰倫(9) Mayday/五月天(2) Taiwanese(3) Learningstrategies(3) Music(16) Originalarrangements(1) RecentPosts WilliamWei–I’dstill(韋禮安– 還是會) DearProf.Heisig… L2IRKaraoke IncrementalReading XenobladeChronicles2Torna:LasariaReorchestrated(FluteMusic Sheets) Xenoblade2Torna:BattleTheme(withPianoSheetsPDF&high-quality download) FireEmblem:ThreeHouses–TitleTheme(Orchestration+Sheet Music) AnimalCrossing:PopulationGrowing–TitleTheme(withPDFofsheet music) Getnewpostsbyemail! It'sfree,andyoucanavoidlotsofGooglinglatertofindthissite. EmailAddress: Confirm Privacy&Cookies:Thissiteusescookies.Bycontinuingtousethiswebsite,youagreetotheiruse. Tofindoutmore,includinghowtocontrolcookies,seehere: CookiePolicy Follow Following EldonReeves Signmeup AlreadyhaveaWordPress.comaccount?Loginnow. EldonReeves Customize Follow Following Signup Login Copyshortlink Reportthiscontent ViewpostinReader Managesubscriptions Collapsethisbar