A Maid from Heaven 1963
七仙女
Seventh sister of the celestial world goes down to earth to marry Dong Yong, a young man sold to servitude. However the Jade Emperor orders her to go back to the immortal world.
Vocabulary
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| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 已 已 | already; to stop; then; afterwards | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 五湖四海 五湖四海 | all parts of the country | Idiom |
| 千里迢迢 千里迢迢 | (idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar | Idiom |
| 白头到老 白頭到老 | (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss; until death do us part | Idiom |
| 晴天霹雳 晴天霹靂 | lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom); fig. a bolt from the blue | Idiom |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 天河 天河 | Milky Way; Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong | Proper Noun |
| 卖身 賣身 | to prostitute oneself; to sell oneself into slavery | |
| 身 身 | body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 | |
| 年长 年長 | senior | |
| 为夫 為夫 | (archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife | |
| 妻 妻 | wife | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 谁知 誰知 | who would have thought; unexpectedly | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 夫 夫 | man, male adult, husband; those | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 不该 不該 | should not; to owe nothing | |
| 打鱼 打魚 | to fish | |
| 樵夫 樵夫 | woodman; woodcutter | |
| 机房 機房 | machine room; engine room; computer room | |
| 妹夫 妹夫 | younger sister's husband | |
| 三更 三更 | third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old); midnight; also pr. [san1 jin1] | |
| 生下 生下 | to give birth to | |
| 白头 白頭 | hoary head; old age | |
| 一只 一隻 | one (measure word for animals, boats, certain objects); a single ... | |
| 早知道 早知道 | If I had known earlier... | |
| 收成 收成 | harvest | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 大红 大紅 | crimson | |
| 年轻人 年輕人 | young people; youngster | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 助 助 | help, aid, assist | |
| 万丈 萬丈 | lit. ten thousand fathoms; fig. extremely high or deep; lofty; bottomless | |
| 往前 往前 | (in) the past; ahead; forward; in the future | |
| 倒像 倒像 | (optics) inverted image | |
| 红日 紅日 | sun | |
| 思忖 思忖 | to ponder; to reckon; to turn sth over in one's mind | |
| 信口 信口 | to blurt sth out; to open one's mouth without thinking |