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help with translating song lyrics into Simplified Mandarin


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Hi All,

 

Please can someone help with translating the below into Simplified Mandarin?

 

"Never try to stop the voices telling you what to do"

 

Many thanks,

 

Eric

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永远不要试图阻止那个告诉你该怎么做的声音

(I just took the result from Google Translate and made some modification. May well be totally unsingable.)

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Hey thanks Publius, I'd never trust Google to translate from such a different type of language, but as a native speaker I'm confident that the above translation will work - it does not need to be sung, the music is going on in the background with lyrics in both English and Mandarin

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the original lyrics are actually 'never try to gag the mouth that bites the hand that feeds' which I was told would just sound confusing if translated as there is no equivalent on a cultural level, so I modified the words to those above - the song retains the same feel. It's based on a spy story by the way, and not political in any way!

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