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正如我轻轻的来

正如我輕輕的來
zhèngrúwǒqīngqīngdelái
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 just as I came softly
  2. 2 (fig.) a gentle, understated arrival or departure without fuss
  3. 3 (lit.) just — as — I — quietly — come

Examples

他悄悄地走了，正如他正如我轻轻的来所说的那样。
Tā qiāoqiāo de zǒule, zhèng rú tā zhèng rú wǒ qīngqīng de lái suǒ shuō de nàyàng.
He left quietly, just as the line 'just as I came softly' describes.
毕业纪念册上写着正如我轻轻的来。
Bìyè jìniàncè shàng xiězhe zhèng rú wǒ qīngqīng de lái.
In the graduation album was written: 'just as I came softly.'

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history
From 徐志摩《再别康桥》 (Xu Zhimo, 1928), the most beloved modern Chinese lyric poem, written after revisiting Cambridge: 轻轻的我走了，正如我轻轻的来；我轻轻的招手，作别西天的云彩 (Softly I am leaving, just as softly I came; I wave my hand in parting, bidding farewell to the western clouds). The poem closes with the same line inverted. Xu Zhimo was one of the Crescent Moon Society's founding poets; he died in a plane crash three years later.
usage
Note the 的 (de) here functions as 地 (adverbial marker) — a Republican-era spelling convention Xu used consistently. The full line is 正如我轻轻的来, but the clause 轻轻的来 / 轻轻的走 circulates on its own as a gentle-exit motif.

Stroke Order

正 zhèng
如 rú
我 wǒ
轻 qīng
的 de
来 lái