Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2011
单身男女
A typical story of the classic romantic triangle, where one person ends up having to choose between two others. This time, it is set against a backdrop of offices in Hong Kong, with a focus on architecture and its designers.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 照旧 照舊 | as before; as in the past | Xiehouyu |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 苏州 蘇州 | Suzhou, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province | Proper Noun |
| 火星 火星 | Mars (planet) | Proper Noun |
| 火星人 火星人 | Martian | Proper Noun |
| 跑马地 跑馬地 | Happy Valley (suburb of Hong Kong) | Proper Noun |
| 中环 中環 | Central, Hong Kong Island | Proper Noun |
| 分区 分區 | allocated area (for housing, industry etc); district | Proper Noun |
| 马莎 馬莎 | Marks and Spencers, UK retail chain; Martha (name) | Proper Noun |
| 天台 天台 | Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴 in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗; Tiantai county in Taizhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 画图 畫圖 | to draw designs, maps etc; picture (e.g. of life in the city) | Proper Noun |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 有空 有空 | to have time (to do sth) | |
| 干活 幹活 | to work; to be employed | |
| 花光 花光 | to spend all one's money | |
| 下星期 下星期 | next week | |
| 程 程 | journey, trip; schedule, agenda | |
| 好久不见 好久不見 | long time no see | |
| 按钮 按鈕 | to push a button; button (one that can be pressed to trigger an action) | |
| 车费 車費 | passenger fare | |
| 过目 過目 | to look over | |
| 派对 派對 | (loanword) party | |
| 把玩 把玩 | to turn around in one's hands; to play with; to fiddle with | |
| 喝光 喝光 | to drink up; to finish (a drink) | |
| 管他 管他 | no matter if; regardless of; don’t worry about (it, him etc); doesn’t matter | |
| 另一 另一 | another; the other | |
| 大奖 大獎 | prize; award | |
| 点钟 點鐘 | (indicating time of day) o'clock | |
| 到时候 到時候 | when the moment comes; at that time | |
| 天时 天時 | the time; the right time; weather conditions; destiny; course of time; heaven's natural order | |
| 流鼻血 流鼻血 | to bleed from the nose; (fig.) to be sexually aroused | |
| 一声 一聲 | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
| 现时 現時 | current | |
| 上升空间 上升空間 | upside; potential to rise | |
| 源 源 | spring; source, head; surname | |
| 木 木 | tree; wood, lumber; wooden | |
| 内裤 內褲 | underpants; panties; briefs | |
| 老土 老土 | old-fashioned; unstylish | |
| 变态 變態 | to metamorphose (biology); abnormal; perverted; hentai; (slang) pervert | |
| 租约 租約 | lease | |
| 发生关系 發生關係 | to have sexual relations with sb; to have dealings with | |
| 去火 去火 | to reduce internal heat (TCM) | |
| 牛腩 牛腩 | brisket (esp. Cantonese); belly beef; spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs; erroneously translated as sirloin | |
| 太古 太古 | immemorial | |
| 叶 葉 | to harmonize, to rhyme; to unite; (borrowed for) leaf | |
| 沙 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 夫妻相 夫妻相 | similarity in features of an old couple; common facial traits that show predestination to be married together |