答案 Answer

答案 Answer

by 杨坤 Yang Kun feat. 郭采洁 Amber Kuo

from 2014央视马年春晚 Year of the Horse Spring Festival Gala

(女 Female)
有个简单的问题　什么是爱情

There's a simple question: what is love?
它是否是一种味道　还是引力

Is it a kind of taste or is it a kind of gravity?

(男 Male)
从我初恋那天起　先是甜蜜

From the day I first fell in love, at first it's sweet
然后紧接着就会有　风雨

Then right after there would be wind and rain

(合 Together)
爱就像　蓝天白云　晴空万里　突然暴风雨

Love is like blue skies and white clouds, a clear sky stretching for miles, and suddenly stormy weather
无处躲避　总是让人　始料不及

No place to take shelter, it always upsets people's expectations
人就像　患重感冒　打着喷嚏　发烧要休息

It's as if you've caught a serious cold, sneezing and fever, needing rest
冷热交替　欢喜忧郁　乐此不疲

Hot and cold at turns, cheerful then melancholy, so excited you can't sleep

(女 Female)
叫人头晕的问题　什么叫爱情

There's a question that causes headaches: what is love?
它是那么地真实　又很可疑

It can be so genuine and also so full of doubts

(男 Male)
研究过许多誓言　海枯石烂

Countless words of promise have been analysed, the seas have dried and the stones have crumbled
发觉越想要解释　越乱

Somehow it feels like the more you try to explain, the more confusing it becomes

(女 Female)
所以说　永远多长　永远短暂　永远很遗憾

So it's always lasting, always brief, always full of regrets
每个人有　每个人不同的体验

Everyone has a different personal experience

(合 Together)
那滋味　时而在飞　时而下坠　时而又落泪

That feeling at any time is flying, is falling, or is crying
动人电影　自己体会　别嫌票太贵

Emotional movies, like your own experience, don't complain that the tickets are too expensive

(男 Male)
比如美酒和咖啡　都是水

For example wine and coffee are both water
(女 Female)
可一个让你醒　一个让你醉　那么感情

But one of them makes you awake, one of them makes you drunk

So then love

(合 Together)
能否以此类推　有的很平淡　有的撕心裂肺

Can it also be reasoned with this analogy? Some are ordinary and others break your heart
所以说　永远多长　永远短暂　永远很缓慢

So it is always lasting, always brief, always moving slowly
每个人有　每个人不同的计算

Everyone has a different kind of plan
神秘的　诺言誓言　甚至谎言　自己去领悟

Mysterious words of promise, of oath, and even of lies, you have to understand it by yourself
也许多年　也许瞬间　你自有答案

Perhaps in many years, perhaps in the blink of an eye

You'll have your own answer

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Notes:
海枯石烂 - lit. the seas dry up and the stones break/crumbled
(Idiom usually paired with 'even', as in even if the seas dry and the stones crumble, [blank] remains unchanged. Basically indicating a long period of time, usually used to describe something that doesn't change. In this case, probably even if the seas dry up and the stones erode away, there still won't be an explanation for love.)
滋味 - lit. taste
别嫌票太贵
(In case my wording is too ambiguous, I don't mean emotional movies that are like your own experience. It means more don't complain about the tickets being too expensive for emotional movies, or your own experience. As in, your own experience is priceless.)
撕心裂肺 - lit. tear [your] heart and split/break open your lungs
(It sounds gory but it basically means grieving or very painful, like breaking your heart or piercing your lungs metaphorically)
你自有答案
(Alt: you'll naturally have an answer)