Excuse me, what does 金风玉露一相逢 便胜却人间无数 means?

[Headache]

Been trying to find the meaning for a while now.  Got my username courtesy of that 

[Guest123]

Trying to understand classical chinese poetry with a simple dictionary is quite an impossible mission indeed  

It was written in Song dynasty, so language is not exactly like modern chinese

Here it's explaned in chinese, but at the end there's an english traslation:

http://www.gudianwenxue.com/songci/qinguan/1359.html

[WenLei-William]

Hello, this originates from Qin Guan's （秦观） poem, 《鹊桥仙》. 

 

The exert that you are pertaining to from the poem's translation goes like this: "When autumn‘s Golden Wind embraces Dew of Jade,

　　All the love scenes on earth, however many, fade."

 

Here are some links so that you can do further research if you are interested:

 

http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-english-70073-1.shtml (Website that has the translation)

 

http://wenda.tianya.cn/question/21e1cda095f9e88c (Website that answers your question, but in Chinese)

 

http://www.baike.com/wiki/%E3%80%8A%E9%B9%8A%E6%A1%A5%E4%BB%99%C2%B7%E7%BA%A4%E4%BA%91%E5%BC%84%E5%B7%A7%E3%80%8B (Baike webpage that talks about the poem in its entirety)

[Headache]

Oh, so that's what it means!

 

When I searched that sentence on google, I got a lot of results about that cowherd and his lover so I knew it was about them, but I had no idea what it means in English.  I recognize the characters individually, but when put together they becomes incomprehensible, especially the '便胜却人间无数'   

 

Thank you Edita and WenLei-William