A Time for Love 1970
那個不多情
A Time For Love features Shaw Brothers' darling Lily Ho in a Romeo and Juliet stylized love story that breaks the tradition of Hong Kong's "class distinction" love stories. It is a film ending with a Cinderella-esque love saving happiness happy ever other ending.
Vocabulary
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| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 同 同 | like; same; similar; together; alike; with | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 偷偷摸摸 偷偷摸摸 | (idiom) surreptitious; sneaky | Idiom |
| 为难 為難 | to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage) | Xiehouyu |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 慌 慌 | to get panicky; to lose one's head; (coll.) (after 得) unbearably; terribly | Colloquialism |
| 收拾 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 甚 甚 | what (literary, = 什么) | |
| 么 麼 | interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) | |
| 老爷 老爺 | master, sir | |
| 茜 茜 | madder, rubia cordifolia; reeds | |
| 狐臭 狐臭 | body odor; bromhidrosis | |
| 舞会 舞會 | dance; ball; party | |
| 廿 廿 | twenty, twentieth | |
| 帐 帳 | tent; account | |
| 弥 彌 | extensive, full; fill; complete | |
| 廷 廷 | court | |
| 娇 嬌 | seductive and loveable; tender | |
| 俏 俏 | like, similar; resemble; pretty | |
| 婆家 婆家 | husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into) | |
| 邱 邱 | surname; hill; mound; grave | |
| 老太婆 老太婆 | old woman (at times contemptuous) | |
| 徨 徨 | doubtful, irresolute, vacillating | |
| 胡说八道 胡說八道 | to talk rubbish | |
| 计程车 計程車 | (Tw) taxi; cab | |
| 陀 陀 | steep bank, rough terrain | |
| 怎么搞的 怎麼搞的 | How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up? | |
| 令尊 令尊 | Your esteemed father (honorific) | |
| 稻 稻 | rice growing in field, rice plant | |
| 一团乱糟 一團亂糟 | a chaotic mess | |
| 有礼貌 有禮貌 | courteous; polite | |
| 锅碗瓢盆 鍋碗瓢盆 | kitchen utensils (literary) | |
| 油锅 油鍋 | a deep fryer | |
| 衣柜 衣櫃 | wardrobe; armoire | |
| 小姑 小姑 | father's youngest sister; husband's younger sister; sister-in-law | |
| 敦 㪟 | esteem; honest, candid, sincere | |
| 辈子 輩子 | all one's life; lifetime | |
| 馅 餡 | filling, stuffing; secret | |
| 跤 跤 | stumble, fall down; wrestle | |
| 犯法 犯法 | to break the law | |
| 风铃 風鈴 | wind chimes | |
| 震荡 震盪 | to shake up; to jolt; to vibrate; to oscillate; to fluctuate | |
| 魔力 魔力 | magic; magic power | |
| 何 何 | what (literary) | |
| 闯进 闖進 | to burst in | |
| 石膏 石膏 | gypsum CaSO4·2(H2O); plaster; plaster cast (for a broken bone) | |
| 甘 甘 | sweetness; sweet, tasty | |
| 休 休 | do not, stop | |
| 粧 粧 | toilet; make-up; dress up; adorn |