好一朵美丽的茉莉花 ---- what a beautiful jasmine flower
好一朵美丽的茉莉花 ---- what a beautiful jasmine flower
芬芳美丽满枝桠 Fragrant, beautiful, the stem full of buds
又白又香人人夸 ---Fragrant and white, everyone praises
让我来 将你摘下 --- Let me pluck you
送给别人家 --- To offer you to someone else
茉莉花呀茉莉花 ---Jasmine flower, ah jasmine flower
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聞笛 The Flutist Heard from Afar:
谁家吹笛画楼中 -----Who’s playing the flute yonder. In that painted tower, I wonder?
断续声随断续风------On and off the tune’s wafting near
As on and off the wind’s floating here.
响遏行云横碧落 ------ It soars high to the heavens, where the clouds no longer sail,
清和冷月到帘栊-----And falls cool on my curtains, where the Moon shines pale.
兴来三弄有桓子 -----Then, the legend’ry Huan the flutist springs to mind,
赋就一篇怀马融------And Ma the poet, whose Ode to the Flute is the best I find.
曲罢不知人在否 -----Now the melody’s o’er, who knows if the Muse’s still there.
余音嘹亮尚飘空 ----- While the strains in their echoes are lingering in the air?