F.I.R. – “让爱重生” (Let Love Be Reborn) Translation

As always, italicized parts are written/spoken in the music video and are not part of the song, and bracketed words in the translation are implied and not part of the literal translation.

哭泣并不只是因为悲伤
而是感受到爱一个人，是如此的美好
于是，擦干眼泪 让爱重生

不想哭
却又哭出声
不想听
传来心破碎声
不应该
让眼泪继续拉扯
答应过的
会好好的

这一次
决定放手了
这一次
我们终於懂了
爱到用尽全力 都是挫折
我想留的 留不住了
幻灭后该怎么抉择

分开的故事
写满了不舍
说好的爱情
没有你怎么完成
明天的故事
收藏好心疼
爱过的恋人
展开各自的旅程
一个人
让爱重生

这一次
决定放手了
这一次
我们终於懂了
爱到用尽全力 都是挫折
我想留的 留不住了
幻灭后该怎么抉择

分开的故事
写满了不舍
说好的爱情
没有你怎么完成
明天的故事
收藏好心疼
爱过的恋人
展开各自的旅程
一个人
让爱重生

经过多少波折
背负沉重苛责
无怨尤的爱着

分开的故事
写满了不舍
说好的爱情
没有你怎么完成
明天的故事
收藏好心疼
爱过的恋人
展开各自的旅程
一个人
让爱重生

让爱重生

Crying isn’t only caused by the hurt/pain
Rather, feeling that loving a person is so beautiful and good
Thus, dry [your] tears … let love be reborn

Don’t want to cry
Yet, again, [I] cry out loud
Don’t want to listen
The sound of a heart shattering can be heard
[I] shouldn’t
Let tears continue to drag [me] down
[You] promised
It’d be okay

This time
[We] decided to let go
This time
We finally understand
Loving until all [my] strength is gone, is totally frustrating
I wanted to stay, but I couldn’t remain
After my hopes vanished, how am I supposed to choose?

The story of separation
Is written full of unwillingness to let go
The agreed-upon love
Without you, how can it be complete?
The story of tomorrow
Hides heartache well
Past lovers
Unfold their own journeys
[As] one person
Let love be reborn

This time
[We] decided to let go
This time
We finally understand
Loving until all [my] strength is gone, is totally frustrating
I wanted to stay, but I couldn’t remain
After my hopes vanished, how am I supposed to choose?

The story of separation
Is written full of unwillingness to let go
The agreed-upon love
Without you, how can it be complete?
The story of tomorrow
Hides heartache well
Past lovers
Unfold their own journeys
[As] one person
Let love be reborn

[No matter] how many twists and turns [we] go through
Bearing heavy criticisms
Without blaming [you], [I continue to] love [you] the best [I can]

The story of separation
Is written full of unwillingness to let go
The agreed-upon love
Without you, how can it be complete?
The story of tomorrow
Hides heartache well
Past lovers
Unfold their own journeys
[As] one person
Let love be reborn

Let love be reborn

I admit to being confused by some of the phrases here, and I attempted to consult the internet, which only reminded me that the internet is full of lies. This video claims to provide a translation, but… oy. And this translation is copied all over the internet (at least in the first few google hits I clicked on)!

The line about not letting tears continue is given in the video, in Chinese, as “flow” when it should be “pull” according to the official music video, so of course it is mistranslated, though this is less of a big deal. The first line in the repeated verse about deciding to let go is mistranslated as letting go of the decision, which is quite different from the intended meaning of letting go of the relationship. The next sentence, I translated as “we finally understand” instead of “we finally understood” because I think of it as a newly realized state, so it’s almost like “we finally understand it now,” and you wouldn’t say “understood” in such a context¹. Later, in the bridge, I was not entirely certain how to translate 苛责, but it is a criticism, not a duty. The last line of the bridge contains entirely the wrong Chinese characters (again, compared to the music video), and the final 着 indicates that the verb “love” that immediately precedes it is a continuing, active thing, so the translation given in the video, using it as a noun, doesn’t make sense (I might attempt to translate the characters they gave as “without any chance due to continuing to love”).

Anyway, I guess the lesson is to not go by internet translations unless you’re willing to only get the gist of happy-vs-sad or is-it-about-love-or-life. I can’t promise that my translation is 100% accurate — after all, part of that depends on how you interpret my translation, though I did try to make it as unambiguous as I could — but I hope that it helps.

¹ This is just like in Japanese, when you have 分かった vs 分かってる! The first one is in “past tense” and usually indicates that the understanding has just happened, while the latter is in “present tense” and indicates that the understanding happened a while ago and is still present. The past-vs-present tense of something doesn’t always match when-it-happened-relative-to-now, basically.

Body of Proof: “Going Viral”

Ah, a club. Perfect place for an outbreak. Hmm. Date rape drug?

I’m glad Peter has the sense to recognize the symptoms. But hasn’t he caught whatever it is, at this point, from holding Dani?

It is just too convenient that three new patients show up just as Kate says that there ought to be a lot more sick people. Or maybe I mean, the one person just showed up, but the other two were there before and happened to be in the same isolation unit? That should mean that they recognized the commonalities and did have more sick people — 4 total — and one more person does not suddenly an epidemic make, if 4 didn’t.

They can’t seriously be wearing that protective gear and still be letting their hair down! I mean, at least Kate’s hair is in a reasonable ponytail, but shouldn’t they look more like they’re in surgery, with caps?

Why doesn’t Curtis already see that Ethan has a point? He was Chief ME at some point, so it’s not like he’s some dumb intern or someone without medical training, like Peter.

I feel fairly certain that they don’t have an autoclave there under the bench (who puts an autoclave there?), and even if they did, autoclaves are not randomly portable that way. Seriously.

Kate brings her own blood to the analyst? Why would you let someone who’s potentially infected have the chance to swap out fluids for a negative test result?

“Remind me to never investigate a plague again” is the best line ever, hehe.

May I point out that not everyone on the team may want to be working in BSL-4? Like Ethan??

If the team’s been keeping the news of the deaths and outbreak quiet, how would Youtube know to send it to them specifically?

I wonder if they quarantined or otherwise screened the relatives of the deceased? Also, “will you please explain to him how the internet works?” is also a great line. Delivered just right.

How can Curtis tell Ethan to just relax? Ethan should keep calm, yes, but he should go fix his suit, shouldn’t he?

I am confused why the FBI guy doesn’t even ask for an ETA on the lab results to confirm meningitis before telling her “no we’re not confirming it before telling the public what we think it is.”

Is Kate taking off her gloves without exiting BSL-4? I can’t tell. But I do like the way she’s not telling anyone, trying to squeeze out the blood, looking for blood in her innermost glove, etc, because those are all fairly typical reactions.

I find the interrogation scene with the teenager somewhat unlikely, but his sarcasm is at least on the mark, and the reactions within it sensible and entertaining. And thank you for pointing out why it can’t possibly be airborne, because Megan never explained it to anyone and it didn’t make sense for her to just expect that the non-medical people would get it and believe her without an explanation.

How does being through decontamination guarantee that you won’t catch it afterwards? *raises eyebrow*

I sort of think that the eyes are much more evidently jaundiced than bloodshot. Also why wouldn’t patient zero be dead by now, given that the subsequent cases have all died? Either that or he’s probably recovered. What is the mortality rate on this, anyway?

Why isn’t Kate in on that meeting, anyway? And… the terrorist isn’t still out there, because he’s presumably either dead or recovered and no longer infectious, I would think?

Episode break!

Is the CDC guy not a doctor, and he’s just a researcher? There’s no way.

That sort of makes sense, the way they say it: first some internal bleeding, then more internal bleeding that shows some of the other symptoms they observed (like the purpura that they didn’t re-mention), hypotensive shock, and cerebral/pulmonary edema before death. But why did they make Kate look so shocked as she looks around the isolation ward?

Really? The FBI guy’s going to be the first one to figure out that the terrorist might be dead already?

Go Peter! Also, making progress with syringes, good. And yay Kate for noticing Trevino, because I, at least, find it hard to keep track of the number of days that have passed in a TV show.

It seems sooo unlikely for the terrorist to have somehow figured out a way to stay alive longer without some kind of trial-and-error testing, and for that you’d have seen deaths beforehand. But it is sort of awesome that Trevino is a “walking pharmacy” (on 17 different drugs for various reasons).

Really, are they going to go to a shot of an empty bed (presumably Trevino’s) during the terrorist call just because the ME’s office happened to call right then and name Trevino as their suspect? He’s in isolation! I get that the bar is near the hospital, but how do you expect him to have gotten out, seriously?

Why are they pointing at the two “electron microscope” images as if they indicate that the two samples are clearly from different people? And why do they then point at the images as they mention the interferon and how the one sample’s supposed to have more of it that clusters more or whatever?

Marburg is not the “bastard cousin” of Ebola. (I mean, calling it a “bastard” makes it sound like it’s engineered, doesn’t it?) Nor is it nastier, if I recall correctly. Also there are more than 3 filoviruses. Also also the mortality rate for Marburg is not as high as they’re making it seem with their “they all died!” statements every now and then. Also also also the symptoms don’t seem as bad as I thought they ought to be for Marburg. They’re definitely not as bad as the symptoms for Ebola, though at least Stafford (the CDC guy) said the words “unmentionable orifices” a little earlier.

That is sooo not adequate consent. True consent means that the subject actually understands the risks involved, and given how quickly Trevino is given the vaccine (behind Megan’s back during the few moments she takes to talk to Kate), it seems incredibly unlikely that he understands the risks.

Stafford’s explanation of why he picks Trevino is totally unreasonable: even if the biology made sense, the math wouldn’t. First of all, vaccines don’t “target virus particles” or anything. But even if they did, his argument that a higher viral load would make it “easier” for the vaccines to “target” the virus particles is only saying that more virus particles would be reached, but the percentage would presumably be similar and there would be more virus particles left at the end, still. And it’s a vaccine, which is preventative, so the earlier you get it, the more chance it has of working. Why does this not make it into anything?

Why is Peter not wearing gloves? I understand that the file is supposed to be clean, but I wouldn’t trust that, with Marburg on the loose….

Ah, closing shot of the terrorist watching the school, setting up for “he’s going to target the kids next! Oh no!” But I wonder what he’s really going to target, because an older, sick man would sort of stand out in an elementary school, and it’s not like kids all play on the same playground toy or anything.

Yay bed bugs. And haha, Megan looks all indignant as Johnson (the head FBI guy) brings Peter along to the hotel but not Megan.

Guys, if you shoot him his blood will aerosolize. (I was wondering, earlier, why Bud was carrying a shotgun when they stormed that abandoned warehouse.)

And now, because they’ve been trying to make us believe that Marburg has a nearly 100% mortality rate, they can’t just let Kate be one of the three out of four survivors (that’s what I recall Marburg’s mortality rate being, anyway). And I guess they’re going to play off the rest of the survivors as “they didn’t actually have Marburg”?

Yay for the inevitable happy ending, though Dani’s death at the beginning was quite a shock. I feel like usually TV shows put the shocking death in the middle or at the end of the episode instead of at the beginning, and I’m not sure whether putting it at the beginning is better (because that’s where you least expect it) or not as good (because you have the rest of the episode to distract you while your subconscious processes most of it for you).