Comrades, Almost a Love Story 1996
甜蜜蜜
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.
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Vocabulary
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| 婚纱 婚紗 | wedding dress | |
| 安心 安心 | at ease; to feel relieved; to set one's mind at rest; to keep one's mind on sth | |
| 生死 生死 | life or death | |
| 溜 溜 | to slip away; to escape in stealth; to skate | |
| 翘 翹 | outstanding; to raise | |
| 磅 磅 | scale (instrument for weighing); to weigh; (loanword) pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams); (printing) point (unit used to measure the size of type) | |
| 麻 蔴 | variant of 麻; hemp | |
| 催 催 | to urge; to press; to prompt; to rush sb; to hasten sth; to expedite | |
| 生涯 生涯 | career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 趁 趁 | to avail oneself of; to take advantage of | |
| 杀手 殺手 | killer; murderer; hit man; (sports) formidable player | |
| 栋 棟 | classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old) | |
| 望 望 | full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 供 供 | to provide; to supply | |
| 罗 羅 | gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 辗转反侧 輾轉反側 | to toss and turn restlessly (in the bed) | Idiom |
| 乳臭未干 乳臭未乾 | lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom); fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears | Idiom |
| 如痴如醉 如癡如醉 | (idiom) enthralled; mesmerized; enraptured | Idiom |
| 空前绝后 空前絕後 | unprecedented and never to be duplicated; the first and the last; unmatched; unique | Idiom |
| 吃不消 吃不消 | to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find sth difficult to manage | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | 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)? | |
| 芥兰 芥蘭 | variant of | |
| 赚大钱 賺大錢 | to earn a fortune | |
| 老板娘 老闆娘 | female proprietor; lady boss; boss's wife | |
| 拚命 拚命 | to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it | |
| 棉袄 棉襖 | cotton-padded jacket | |
| 长篇大论 長篇大論 | a lengthy harangue; a long-winded speech or essay (idiom) | |
| 情场 情場 | affairs of the heart; mutual relationship | |
| 镇得住 鎮得住 | to manage to suppress; to keep under control | |
| 芭蕾舞 芭蕾舞 | ballet (loanword) | |
| 睁开 睜開 | to open (one's eyes) | |
| 蠢蛋 蠢蛋 | fool; dolt | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 啰嗦 囉嗦 | variant of | |
| 爱滋 愛滋 | AIDS (loanword); see also | |
| 有缘 有緣 | related; brought together by fate |