Comrades, Almost a Love Story

Comrades, Almost a Love Story 1996

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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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3.61 Beginner Director Peter Chan Ho-Sun 🍅 91%

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fan trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble HSK 3
調 diào to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody HSK 3
nián dài a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period HSK 3
wài miàn outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance HSK 3
shì undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation HSK 3
broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of HSK 3
duī to sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old) HSK 3
wēi xiǎn danger; dangerous HSK 3
lǎo bǎn boss; business proprietor HSK 3
gèng jiā more (than sth else); even more HSK 3
huǒ fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86 HSK 3
zhào according to; in accordance with; to shine; to illuminate; to reflect; to look at (one's reflection); to take (a photo); photo; as requested; as before HSK 3
nán dào don't tell me ...; could it be that...? HSK 3
jǐng chá police; police officer HSK 3
local; regional; district (not necessarily formal administrative unit); region; area; as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city) HSK 3
lái since (a previous event) HSK 3
jiǔ (long) time; (long) duration of time HSK 3
tiào to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate HSK 3
běn lái original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course HSK 3
guà to hang or suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried or concerned; to make a phone call (dialect); to register or record; classifier for sets or clusters of objects; (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) HSK 3
jǐn zhāng nervous; keyed up; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce HSK 3
réng rán still; as before; yet HSK 3
shēn deep (lit. and fig.) HSK 3
jié hūn to marry; to get married HSK 3
bào to announce; to inform; report; newspaper; recompense; revenge HSK 3
yíng to beat; to win; to profit HSK 3
gǎn to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture HSK 3
tán to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss HSK 3
jīn gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 HSK 3
bìng qiě and; besides; moreover; furthermore; in addition HSK 3
guāng light; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered HSK 3
yuē to make an appointment; to invite; approximately; pact; treaty; to economize; to restrict; to reduce (a fraction); concise HSK 3
dào finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last HSK 3
zuò to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together; cooperation HSK 3
miàn inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] HSK 3
dài biǎo representative; delegate; to represent; to stand for; on behalf of; in the name of HSK 3
rán sudden; abrupt; unexpected HSK 3
zǒng shì always HSK 3
area; region; district; small; distinguish HSK 3
xià lai to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders) HSK 3
zhōng at last; in the end; finally; eventually HSK 3
jiào to compare; to contrast; comparatively; relatively; quite; comparison HSK 3
bǎo zhèng guarantee; to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard; to pledge HSK 3
le extremely; exceedingly HSK 3
pāi to pat; to clap; to slap; to swat; to take (a photo); to shoot (a film); racket (sports); beat (music) HSK 3
huó to live; alive; living; work; workmanship HSK 3
zhuǎi see 转文 HSK 3
lián to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) HSK 3
shí actually; in fact; really HSK 3
zhǐ yǒu only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") HSK 3