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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| 铜钱 銅錢 | copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) | |
| 用得着 用得著 | to be able to use; useable; to have a use for; (in a question) to be necessary to | |
| 铜牌 銅牌 | bronze medal; bronze plaque bearing a business name or logo etc | |
| 长短 長短 | length; accident; mishap; right and wrong; good and bad; merits and demerits | |
| 顽皮 頑皮 | naughty | |
| 畔 畔 | (bound form) side; edge; boundary | |
| 波浪 波浪 | wave | |
| 橙 橙 | orange tree; orange (color) | |
| 亲眼 親眼 | with one's own eyes; personally | |
| 恰恰 恰恰 | exactly; just; precisely | |
| 扭 扭 | to turn; to twist; to wring; to sprain; to swing one's hips | |
| 园 園 | land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 园, such as a botanical garden 植物园, kindergarten 幼儿园 etc | |
| 添 添 | to add; to increase; to replenish | |
| 磨 磨 | to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist | |
| 从没 從沒 | never (in the past); never did | |
| 同一 同一 | identical; the same | |
| 捡 撿 | to pick up; to collect; to gather | |
| 会见 會見 | to meet with (sb who is paying a visit) | |
| 牵 牽 | to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve; to draw in | |
| 狠 狠 | ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 踏 踏 | see 踏实 | |
| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 精 精 | essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) | |
| 嗨 嗨 | oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword) | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 搭 搭 | to put up; to build (scaffolding); to hang (clothes on a pole); to connect; to join; to arrange in pairs; to match; to add; to throw in (resources); to take (boat, train); variant of 褡 | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 镇 鎮 | to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 乍暖还寒 乍暖還寒 | (idiom) (of early spring weather) alternating between warm and cold | Idiom |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 秒 秒 | second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly | Colloquialism |
| 拔萃 拔萃 | to distinguish oneself; to be of outstanding talent | |
| 芳 芳 | fragrant; virtuous; beautiful | |
| 彬 彬 | cultivated, well-bred | |
| 萃 萃 | dense, thick, close-set; to collect together | |
| 冯 馮 | surname; gallop; by dint of | |
| 冰棒 冰棒 | popsicle; ice pop | |
| 何 何 | what (literary) | |
| 葇 葇 | Elsholtria paltrini | |
| 荑 荑 | sprouts; tares | |
| 柔 柔 | soft; gentle, pliant | |
| 珠 珠 | precious stone, gem, jewel, pearl | |
| 皇 皇 | royal, imperial; ruler, superior |