Dawn Will Come 1966
魂断奈何天
The lovely Li Hsiang-chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burning store room, left to drown, and chased by sword-wielding ruffians, among other things. Her only hope is her betrayer's new wife, played by the strong and sensual Ivy Ling Po. Dawn may come, but the questions is: will it be too late? Director/writer Kao Li shows both restraint and sadism in this historical melodramatic tearjerker.
Vocabulary
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| 丫头 丫頭 | girl; servant girl; (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment) | |
| 临 臨 | to face; to overlook; to arrive; to be (just) about to; just before | |
| 扬 揚 | to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing; scattering (in the wind); to flutter; to propagate | |
| 无力 無力 | powerless; lacking strength | |
| 故 故 | happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead | |
| 平民 平民 | ordinary people; commoner; civilian | |
| 身子 身子 | body; pregnancy; health | |
| 训 訓 | to teach; to train; to admonish; instruction (from superiors); teachings; rule | |
| 但愿 但願 | if only (sth were possible); I wish (that) | |
| 凡 凡 | ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every; all; whatever; altogether; gist; outline; note of Chinese musical scale | |
| 消 消 | to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不 or 只 or 何 etc) to need; to require; to take | |
| 难怪 難怪 | (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that) | |
| 略 略 | brief; sketchy; outline; summary; to omit; (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly; plan; strategy; to capture (territory) | |
| 魂 䰟 | soul; spirit; immortal soul (that can be detached from the body) | |
| 杀害 殺害 | to murder | |
| 挣扎 掙扎 | to struggle | |
| 有意 有意 | to intend; intentionally; interested in | |
| 催 催 | to urge; to press; to prompt; to rush sb; to hasten sth; to expedite | |
| 残 殘 | to destroy; to spoil; to ruin; to injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; brutal; incomplete; disabled; to remain; to survive; remnant; surplus | |
| 讨 討 | to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study | |
| 趁 趁 | to avail oneself of; to take advantage of | |
| 免 免 | to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office; to avoid; to avert; to escape; to be prohibited | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 娶 娶 | to take a wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 堂 堂 | (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture | |
| 抛 拋 | to throw; to toss; to fling; to cast; to abandon | |
| 皆 皆 | all; each and every; in all cases | |
| 持 持 | to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control | |
| 孤单 孤單 | lone; lonely; loneliness | |
| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 烤 烤 | to roast; to bake; to broil | |
| 望 望 | full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards | |
| 告 告 | to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue | |
| 计 計 | to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge | |
| 灰 灰 | ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected | |
| 真心 真心 | sincere; heartfelt | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 且 且 | and; moreover; yet; for the time being; to be about to; both (... and...) | |
| 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) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 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) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 明媒正娶 明媒正娶 | to be officially wed | Idiom |
| 执法如山 執法如山 | to maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom); to enforce the law strictly | Idiom |