這首歌感情深沉 in English

[Kenny同志]

同志們, how can I get the message across?

Thanks for your help in advance.

[陳德聰]

This song is really deep.

This song is really emotional.

This song is really meaningful.

If only "deepmotionful" were a word.

[skylee]

I think emotional can mean things other than 感情深沉.

When I think 感情深沉, I think 梁朝偉 burying his secrets by talking to a tree, or 梁朝偉, with a smile on his face, letting 張曼玉 stab him ...

[gato]

How about "This song is so sad" or "This song is full of melancholy"?

Nice picture of 张曼玉.

[Kenny同志]

Thanks everybody.

@陳

Emotional sounds a bit ambiguous as it could mean emotive too. Do you think full of emotion is better?

@gato

I am afraid the two translations you proposed wouldn't work because 感情深沉 doesn't have to be sad or full of melancholy. Put it in another way, the original says 歌手是帶著很深的感情去唱的.

[skylee]

But when I see 感情深沉 I think it implies sadness.

[Kenny同志]

It may imply love and affection, too.

[tooironic]

I think "this song is really deep" is the best proposed translation so far. The only downside is that in English "deep", as a metaphorical adjective, is often used sarcastically, so the word has a slightly lame connotation.

[陳德聰]

Deep doesn't carry that connotation where I come from, but it can be used sarcastically like almost every other word.

As for emotional, I thought that saying a song is emotional is the same thing as saying it is full of emotion. I don't get "emotive", but yes "full of emotion" is less ambiguous but feels kind of trite to me.

[Kenny同志]

Thank you both. I think I'll stick to 'full of emotion' - given the nature of the article, it'd be OK.

[Michaelyus]

I know I'm a bit late, but I suggest the most authentic equivalent is "X has great emotional depth". Bit clichéd (especially in certain circles), but at least it's not (yet!) prone to sarcasm, misunderstanding or otherwise.