Dust in the Wind 1986
恋恋风尘
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.
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Vocabulary
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| 戴 戴 | to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support | |
| 毕业 畢業 | graduation; to graduate; to finish school | |
| 既然 既然 | since; as; this being the case | |
| 抽 抽 | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash | |
| 圈 圈 | to confine; to lock up; to pen in | |
| 牌 牌 | mahjong tile; playing card; game pieces; signboard; plate; tablet; medal | |
| 免费 免費 | free (of charge) | |
| 否则 否則 | otherwise; if not; or (else) | |
| 丈夫 丈夫 | husband | |
| 传统 傳統 | tradition; traditional; convention; conventional | |
| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 王 王 | king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great | |
| 位置 位置 | position; place; seat | |
| 单 單 | bill; list; form; single; only; sole; odd number | |
| 梦 夢 | dream; (bound form) to dream | |
| 首 首 | head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 曾 曾 | once; already; ever (in the past); former; previously; (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | |
| 此 此 | this; these | |
| 无 無 | not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 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) | |
| 你死我活 你死我活 | lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries; two parties cannot coexist | Idiom |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | 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 |
| 整 整 | exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb | Colloquialism |
| 台北 臺北 | Taipei, capital of Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 金门 金門 | Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan; Jinmen county in Quanzhou, Fujian, PRC | Proper Noun |
| 光复 光復 | Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County, east Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 饿死 餓死 | to starve to death; to be very hungry | |
| 邮差 郵差 | postman; mailman (dated in mainland China) | |
| 打火机 打火機 | lighter; cigarette lighter | |
| 比照 比照 | according to; in the light of; contrast | |
| 杨 楊 | willow, poplar, aspen; surname | |
| 裤 褲 | trousers, pants | |
| 总有 總有 | inevitably there will be | |
| 吴 吳 | name of warring state; surname | |
| 卫 衛 | guard, protect, defend | |
| 录音带 錄音帶 | audio tape | |
| 去台 去臺 | to go to Taiwan; refers to those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 | |
| 月台 月臺 | railway platform | |
| 乱画 亂畫 | to doodle; graffito; doodle | |
| 健 健 | strong, robust, healthy; strength | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 好久不见 好久不見 | long time no see | |
| 防水 防水 | waterproof |