Caught in the Web 2012
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The story of three women whose worlds collide - a social commentary about the 'sound bite' society we are becoming, where perception becomes reality and judgments based on limited facts quickly spread, without regard for the truth or the damage they could cause.
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Vocabulary
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| 得知 得知 | to find out; to learn of | |
| 惊讶 驚訝 | amazed; astonished; to surprise; amazing; astonishment; awe | |
| 惹 惹 | to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) | |
| 告 告 | to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue | |
| 穿着 穿著 | attire; clothes; dress | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 灰 灰 | ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected | |
| 拨 撥 | to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch | |
| 设 設 | to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if | |
| 毫无 毫無 | not in the least; to completely lack | |
| 推荐 推薦 | to recommend; recommendation | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 婚姻 婚姻 | matrimony; wedding; marriage | |
| 许 許 | to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps | |
| 时尚 時尚 | fashion; fad; fashionable | |
| 所谓 所謂 | so-called; what is called | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 情人眼里出西施 情人眼裡出西施 | lit. in the eyes of a lover appears (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder | Idiom |
| 南辕北辙 南轅北轍 | to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom) | Idiom |
| 闭门羹 閉門羹 | (fig.) denial of entry; flat refusal; cold rebuff | Idiom |
| 豪言壮语 豪言壯語 | bold, visionary words | Idiom |
| 魂不守舍 魂不守舍 | to be preoccupied (idiom); to be inattentive; to be frightened out of one's mind | Idiom |
| 见死不救 見死不救 | 见: see, observe, behold; perceive · 死: die; dead; death · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 救: save, rescue, relieve; help, aid | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 墨镜 墨鏡 | sunglasses | |
| 讲理 講理 | to argue; to reason with sb; to talk sense; to be reasonable | |
| 评理 評理 | to judge between right and wrong; to reason things out | |
| 隐私权 隱私權 | privacy right | |
| 家公 家公 | head of a family; (polite) my father; (polite) my grandfather; your esteemed father | |
| 不觉 不覺 | unconsciously | |
| 哇噻 哇噻 | variant of | |
| 撒野 撒野 | to display shockingly bad behavior; to behave atrociously | |
| 最优 最優 | optimal; optimum | |
| 蹦极 蹦極 | bungee jumping (loanword) | |
| 搀扶 攙扶 | to lend an arm to support sb | |
| 还债 還債 | to settle a debt | |
| 出人命 出人命 | fatal; resulting in sb's death | |
| 知情人 知情人 | person in the know; insider; informed source | |
| 爆料 爆料 | to make explosive allegations | |
| 黄道吉日 黃道吉日 | 黄: yellow; surname · 道: path, road, street; method, way · 吉: lucky, propitious, good · 日: sun; day; daytime |