ちょっと英訳をしてみたい (Is this right? haha)
歌詞から。。。
"hontou no shiawase ha me ni utsurazu ni"
"本当のしあわせは目に映らずに"
これは英語でなんですか?
Does it mean...
"real happiness is in what is reflected in my eyes" ?
Any help appreciated, with my question as well as with my probably poor Japanese :)
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Answers · 1
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Hola Kylecito,
This is tricky and a little poetic. Literally, your attempt of translation is correct :-) However, what it really means is:
The real happiness cannot be seen by the eyes. (or One cannot see the happiness through his/her eyes). So what it implied (from my interpretation) is that one feels the happiness by not looking for something visible but other means (e.g. feeling, intuition, heart, etc).
It reminds me of the quote from Antoine de Saint Exupéry's The Little Prince:
Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur.
(But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...)
Hope it helps!
- Yan
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