Echoes of the Rainbow 2010
岁月神偷
Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.
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Vocabulary
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| 本来 本來 | original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course | |
| 深 㴱 | deep (lit. and fig.) | |
| 步 步 | a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process; situation | |
| 赢 贏 | to beat; to win; to profit | |
| 敢 敢 | to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture | |
| 社会 社會 | society | |
| 光 光 | light; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered | |
| 好好 好好 | well; carefully; nicely; properly | |
| 到底 到底 | finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last | |
| 另外 另外 | additional; in addition; besides; separate; other; moreover; furthermore | |
| 曾经 曾經 | once; already; former; previously; ever; (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | |
| 双 雙 | two; double; pair; both; even (number) | |
| 个人 個人 | individual; personal; oneself | |
| 下来 下來 | 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) | |
| 比较 比較 | to compare; to contrast; comparatively; relatively; quite; comparison | |
| 保证 保證 | guarantee; to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard; to pledge | |
| 当然 當然 | only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt | |
| 其实 其實 | actually; in fact; really | |
| 只有 只有 | 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") | |
| 决定 決定 | to decide (to do something); to resolve; decision; certainly | |
| 由 由 | to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 比赛 比賽 | competition (sports etc); match; to compete | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 玩完 玩完 | (coll.) to end in failure; to come to grief; to bite the dust | Xiehouyu |
| 满口脏话 滿口髒話 | to pour out obscenities; filthy mouthed | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 蛋挞 蛋撻 | egg tart (colloquial pr. [dan4ta3]) | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 猫 貓 | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem | Colloquialism |
| 南海 南海 | South China Sea | Proper Noun |
| 巴黎 巴黎 | Paris, capital of France | Proper Noun |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 英 英 | petal, flower, leaf; brave, a hero; England, English | |
| 鞋子 鞋子 | shoe | |
| 热带鱼 熱帶魚 | tropical fish | |
| 半边 半邊 | half of sth; one side of sth | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must |