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It is from a lyrics of 《相思的债》
The complete sentence is
你闯进了我的心里 真情灌溉
我却为你万千感慨 默默等待
Girl: You rushed into my heart, filled it with water of love. In the meantime, I am emotional a lot for you, waiting quietly.
The 却 shows the comparison that the boy is active while the girl keeps waiting, even though she is emotional.
Lyrics are written in a rather twisted ...
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Both are correct, and both have similar meaning. These two phrases could be used to blame on someone for something.
E.g.
你看看自己這副無精打采還病懨懨的樣子, 誰看了都討厭。
你看看你, 跟你說不要亂碰你還碰, 結果現在果然受傷了吧。
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Google's translation isn't off too much.
却 is an adverb which is used more or less like "yet", "however" or "and yet" in English. I say "and yet" because I often see it used as a conjunction, in place of 反而.
For example:
这句话那么简单，却点燃了我 (= this sentence is so simple, and yet it set me on fire)
万千 means "a myriad&...
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“素弦声断” means the plain Chinese zither broke its strings so the sound stopped. This word is from a poem describing the sadness of farewell with a friend. Thus, the sound from the zither is generalized to the good feeling brought by the friend which was stopped because of the departure.
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Literally, It means strings broken so that the sound of 古箏(or 古琴) stopped.
素絃聲斷 comes from a poem. 素絃聲斷 means "It's no longer possible to hear that the beautiful lady plays 古箏(or 古琴) for me again."
倚危亭。恨如芳草，萋萋剗盡還生。念柳外青驄別後，水邊紅袂分時，愴然暗驚。
無端天與娉婷。夜月一簾幽夢，春風十里柔情。怎奈向、歡娛漸隨流水，素弦聲斷，翠綃香減，那堪片片飛花弄晚，蒙蒙殘雨籠晴。正銷凝。黃鸝又啼數聲。
when you see ancient Chinese dramas, the ...
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Here’s a highly unsatisfying answer.
《汉语大辞典》has a definition of 索 that defines it as:
索性；干脆。
And they give the example:
《警世通言·庄子休鼓盆成大道》
早知死後無情義, 索把生前恩愛勾。
《现代汉语大词典》also has an entry on 索 that defines it as:
干脆。如：索性；索兴。
Outlier gives the following meaning tree which maps out the development of word meanings and it seems to show that this meaning was ...
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