Mandarin learning guide
Learn with 越來越不懂
This guide follows a first-person reflection on age, love, and changing expectations. The lyric moves between wanting love, doubting it, and repeating a clear refrain of not understanding it.
What to listen for
The lyric traces a speaker at 22 and 32, comparing an earlier eagerness for romance with a later reluctance to wait. It repeats the idea that love is confusing, using contrast words and fixed expressions to show how expectations change over time.
- Identify how the lyric marks different ages and time points.
- Understand the contrast between 得不到 and 太容易来的 in the repeated refrain.
- Recognize how repeated lines build the message that the speaker越来越不懂爱.
How the song moves
Opening memory (L0001–L0003)
The speaker looks back to age 22, recalls wanting love, and quotes a mother’s advice to let it happen.
Later perspective (L0004–L0011)
At 32, the speaker says waiting is less appealing and that love leaves only a brief impression.
Refrain and reflection (L0012–L0035)
The repeated refrain states not understanding love, then cycles through contrast, self-comfort, and the same questioning lines.
Translation choices
发现我没太 多的兴趣等待
- Natural English
- I found I wasn't very interested in waiting
- Why
- This keeps the speaker’s personal discovery and matches 没太多的兴趣 as a low level of interest, not a total refusal.
太容易来的 就不理睬 其实
- Natural English
- What comes too easily is often disregarded
- Why
- This captures the general statement in 太容易来的 就不理睬 and preserves the contrast with 得不到的就更加爱.
但每次它只留下 惊鸿一瞥的感慨
- Natural English
- But each time, it only leaves behind a fleeting feeling
- Why
- This stays close to the idea of only留下 and the brief, passing sense in 惊鸿一瞥的感慨 without over-specifying the emotion.
Useful Mandarin from the song
The pattern 数字+岁+时 is a direct way to anchor a past time point in Chinese.
以为 often signals a belief later shown to be incomplete or wrong, which fits the speaker’s changed perspective.
This is a figurative way to say things no longer match the expected pace or order, and it works beyond music contexts.
Listen closely
- Listen for the age contrasts between 22岁时 and 32岁时; they frame the whole lyric.
- Notice how the repeated line 得不到的就更加爱 is followed by 太容易来的 就不理睬, creating a strong contrast.
- Hear the refrain 我越来越不懂爱 / 而我越来越不懂爱 as the main emotional summary rather than a new plot point.
Check your understanding
Which line shows the contrast between not getting something and loving it more?
Show answer
得不到的就更加爱
What does 以为遇上了就会明白 suggest about the speaker’s earlier expectation?
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The speaker expected love would become clear once it appeared.