夜上海

夜上海夜上海你是个不夜城

华灯起乐声响歌舞升平

只见她笑脸迎谁知她内心苦闷

夜生活都为了衣食住行

酒不醉人人自醉

胡天胡地蹉跎了青春

晓色朦胧转眼醒大家归去

心灵儿随着转动的车轮

换一换新天地别有一个新环境

回味着夜生活如梦初醒

Translation

Shanghai Nights

Shanghai nights, Shanghai nights, you are a city that never sleeps

Bright lights, sounds of cars, singing and dancing

Just seeing her smiling face, who knows of her inner sorrow?

Nightlife is just as important as food, shelter and transport

Alcohol doesn't make people drunk, they make themselves drunk

Troubled sky and earth, wasted youth

The hazy light of dawn makes everyone's eyes tired

The soul returns with the turning of car wheels

She finds a new world, not a new environment

The aftertaste of nightlife like waking from a dream

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Comments

Barbarossa Davide

Sun, 13/08/2023 - 15:44

You made two mistakes, let me state them separately:
1."夜生活都为了衣食住行" means "Nightlife is for living"，“Living” here refers to the "food, shelter and transport" you mentioned. Even according to your translation, you missed the word "衣"，it means "wear"
2.The word "别" in "别有一个新环境" is not “NOT”, but actually refers to another word "又"（another）
The reason for these mistakes is that the words of this song are not written in vernacular（白话文，a style of writing and speaking that readers can take purely literally） in modern Chinese（现代汉语）. Instead, some words used in classical Chinese（文言文，A style of writing and speaking that is generally opposed to the vernacular） are mixed in

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