Between Tears and Smiles

Between Tears and Smiles 1964

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Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien. However, he is not the only one who has eyes for Shen. The General's henchmen are also determined to present the songstress to their superior as a gift. Fan received help from an unexpected quarter to save the woman he loves.

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4.52 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
mèi zi (dialect) younger sister; girl ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
zhè jiù immediately; at once ∼HSK 1
qián dry; first hexagram; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male) ∼HSK 1
zhè wèi this (person) ∼HSK 1
xiǎng unexpectedly; to one's surprise ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
dào liǎo at last; finally; in the end ∼HSK 1
hǎo hello; hi ∼HSK 1
duō duō many; much; a lot; lots and lots; more; even more ∼HSK 1
èr 16; sixteen ∼HSK 1
kuài diǎn to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! ∼HSK 1
zhè zhǒng this kind of ∼HSK 1
le no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) ∼HSK 1
zěn me huí shì what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? ∼HSK 1
xiǎo (literary) youngster; (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation); (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) ∼HSK 1
Jīng capital city ∼HSK 1
zuò arrogant; to put on airs; (business etc) to expand; to enlarge; to do sth on a big scale ∼HSK 1
huǒ variant of ∼HSK 1
jiā de (old) wife ∼HSK 1
dào not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than ∼HSK 1
méi shì it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) ∼HSK 1
yǒu qián well-off; wealthy ∼HSK 1
(literary) not to speak ∼HSK 1
chī bu xià not feel like eating; be unable to eat any more ∼HSK 1
xià to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc) ∼HSK 1
shí seventeen; 17 ∼HSK 1
duàn zi satin ∼HSK 1
de (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking ∼HSK 1
de (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking ∼HSK 1
zuò rén to conduct oneself; to behave with integrity ∼HSK 1
like, love, enjoy; joyful thing ∼HSK 1
hǎo several; quite a few ∼HSK 1
hǎo nián several years ∼HSK 1
nián lái this past year; over the last years ∼HSK 1
jiā zi the whole family ∼HSK 1
gēn rén to marry (of woman) ∼HSK 1
several times ∼HSK 1
nín hǎo hello (polite) ∼HSK 1
ge a few; several; how many ∼HSK 1
bìng serious illness ∼HSK 1
xiǎo shì trifle; trivial matter ∼HSK 1
hòu bàn latter half ∼HSK 1
zài together ∼HSK 1
first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) ∼HSK 1
zhe ne comes at the end of the sentence to indicate a strong degree; quite; rather ∼HSK 1
kǒu readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite ∼HSK 1
huán gěi to return sth to sb ∼HSK 1
shì de yes, that's right; variant of ∼HSK 1