Posts

Showing posts from December, 2023

2023.12.30.Baidu App YY Shared the Story of "Pinocchio"

https://x.com/yangyang_tweets/status/1741039926186328241?s=20 Eng sub shared on X:  https://x.com/yangyang_tweets/status/1741097193984098415?s=20 ~0:06 Fairytales are extensions of childhood dreams. Let’s read a fairytale over the new year break! Hello, friends of Baidu APP. I am YY. I’m here to share the story of Pinocchio. ~0:09 Pinocchio Author: Carlo Collodi Narrator: Yang Yang 0:13 Once upon a time, a carpenter made a wooden puppet that could move and talk. He named him Pinocchio. 0:21 The carpenter sent Pinocchio to school, but Pinocchio went to see the circus performance and sold the textbook that the carpenter bought for him with their only money. Pinocchio did not dare to go home. 0:29 On his way, he was fooled by a fox and a cat and lost all his gold coins. 0:36 Pinocchio went to the judge for justice, but the confused judge put him in jail instead. 0:41 After he was released, he went back to find the carpenter immediately, but the carpenter was nowhere to be seen. To he...

2023.12.30.Sina Entertainment YY's New Year Greetings Translation

Image
  https://x.com/yangyang_tweets/status/1741013776194048051?s=20 Hello, all the friends of Sina Entertainment! I am Sina’s good friend, YY. In the coming new year, wish everybody find joy everywhere you look, break to establish new (fail to succeed), smooth journey wherever you go. ----- The End ----- The 5th sentence he used was 破而后”立” with the last word in double quote. I felt he did that on purpose because it was the same as Hanli’s name (韓立) At the same time, the meaning of 破而后立 is like breaking old rules or existing things to establish or create new order or find new things. I saw online “破而後立 敗而后成” used in parallel as well. 敗而后成 means standing up again to achieve success after failing first. I don’t know if he chose to say these on purpose. But I felt these were great words and had very good meanings (that happened to resonate with what happened last year to some extent)

2024.01.01.The Immortal Ascension Teaser Video Translation

https://weibo.com/7833484884/4985303668364861 subbed video shared in X:  https://x.com/yangyang_tweets/status/1741673366204068305?s=20 0:20 Ah~ Hanli 0:25 There are so many beautiful sceneries in this world 0:29 Why can only the (families of the) immortals travel the world/fly freely between heaven and earth? 0:34 Us mortals 0:36 can only be the frogs in the bottom of a well 0:40 Please go see the world 0:42 for me… 0:47 I am 0:48 Hanli from Yellow Maple Valley 1:15 If in the morning I were to gain knowledge of the correct path in life 1:17 I would be able to die at sunset without regrets. (The last two lines were from Confucius’s Analects.)