Butterfly 2004
蝴蝶
Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. A chance encounter in a supermarket with the playful and seductive singer Yip reawakens dormant feelings and she begins to think back on her teenage affair with Jin.
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Vocabulary
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| 早餐 早餐 | breakfast | |
| 好久 好久 | quite a while | |
| 碰到 碰到 | to come across; to run into; to meet; to hit | |
| 便宜 便宜 | convenient | |
| 提到 提到 | to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to | |
| 理想 理想 | an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect | |
| 教师 教師 | teacher | |
| 作业 作業 | school assignment; homework; work; task; operation; to operate | |
| 好处 好處 | easy to get along with | |
| 安静 安靜 | quiet; peaceful; calm | |
| 闻 聞 | to hear; news; well-known; famous; reputation; fame; to smell; to sniff at | |
| 信心 信心 | confidence; faith (in sb or sth) | |
| 上周 上周 | last week | |
| 多久 多久 | (of time) how long?; (not) a long time | |
| 的话 的話 | if (coming after a conditional clause) | |
| 观点 觀點 | point of view; viewpoint; standpoint | |
| 到处 到處 | everywhere | |
| 答应 答應 | to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise | |
| 相同 相同 | identical; same | |
| 讲话 講話 | a speech; to speak; to talk; to address | |
| 高中 高中 | senior high school; abbr. for 高级中学 | |
| 可怕 可怕 | awful; dreadful; fearful; formidable; frightful; scary; hideous; horrible; terrible; terribly | |
| 多么 多麼 | how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent | |
| 成绩 成績 | achievement; performance records; grades | |
| 食物 食物 | food | |
| 味道 味道 | flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor | |
| 酒店 酒店 | wine shop; pub (public house); hotel; restaurant; (Tw) hostess club | |
| 照顾 照顧 | to take care of; to show consideration; to attend to; to look after | |
| 纸 紙 | paper; classifier for documents, letter etc | |
| 鸟 鳥 | bird; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196); (dialect) to pay attention to; (intensifier) damned; goddamn | |
| 词 詞 | word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 | |
| 不够 不夠 | not enough; insufficient; inadequate | |
| 怎么样 怎麼樣 | how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? | |
| 船 舩 | boat; vessel; ship | |
| 养 養 | to raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets); to support; to give birth | |
| 喂 喂 | hello (when answering the phone) | |
| 听说 聽說 | to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking | |
| 笔 筆 | pen; pencil; writing brush; to write or compose; the strokes of Chinese characters; classifier for sums of money, deals | |
| 街 街 | street | |
| 日子 日子 | day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life | |
| 留下 留下 | to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain; to keep; not to let (sb) go | |
| 关心 關心 | to be concerned about; to care about | |
| 方向 方向 | direction; orientation | |
| 收到 收到 | to receive | |
| 办公室 辦公室 | office; business premises; bureau | |
| 样子 樣子 | appearance; manner; pattern; model | |
| 画 畫 | to draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw (a line) (variant of 划); stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 划); (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 划) | |
| 年轻 年輕 | young | |
| 后来 後來 | afterwards; later; newly arrived | |
| 讨论 討論 | to discuss; to talk over |