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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| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 政府 政府 | government | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 各就各位 各就各位 | (of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom); (athletics) On your mark! | Idiom |
| 双管齐下 雙管齊下 | lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom); fig. to work on two tasks at the same time; to attack one problem from two angles at the same time | Idiom |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 死人 死人 | dead person; (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen | 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 |
| 乔治 喬治 | George (name) | Proper Noun |
| 中秋 中秋 | the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month | Proper Noun |
| 春日 春日 | Chunri or Chunjih township in Pingtung County, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 耳 耳 | ear; merely, only; handle | |
| 士 士 | scholar, gentleman; soldier | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 另一 另一 | another; the other | |
| 沙 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 叔 叔 | uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
| 夜光 夜光 | luminous | |
| 每人 每人 | each person; everybody; per person | |
| 出马 出馬 | to set out (on a campaign); to stand for election; to throw one's cap in the ring | |
| 太空人 太空人 | astronaut | |
| 人烟 人煙 | sign of human habitation | |
| 麦 麥 | wheat, barley, oats; simplified form of KangXi radical number 199 | |
| 报时 報時 | to give the correct time | |
| 看齐 看齊 | to follow sb's example; to emulate; (of troops etc) to dress (come into alignment for parade formation) | |
| 阿瑟 阿瑟 | Arthur (name) | |
| 保住 保住 | to preserve; to save | |
| 己 己 | self, oneself; personal, private; 6th heavenly stem | |
| 随心 隨心 | to fulfill one's desire; to find sth satisfactory | |
| 总得 總得 | must; have to; be bound to | |
| 一转眼 一轉眼 | in the blink of an eye | |
| 气死 氣死 | to infuriate; to be furious; to die from an excess of anger | |
| 整条 整條 | entire; whole (fish, road etc) | |
| 碧血 碧血 | blood shed in a just cause | |
| 一般般 一般般 | not particularly good; so-so | |
| 乱说 亂說 | to talk drivel; to make irresponsible remarks | |
| 空空 空空 | empty; vacuous; nothing; vacant; in vain; all for nothing; air-to-air (missile) | |
| 无人 無人 | unmanned; uninhabited | |
| 亲笔 親筆 | in one's own handwriting | |
| 财 財 | wealth, valuables, riches | |
| 追上 追上 | to overtake | |
| 省心 省心 | to cause no trouble; to be spared worry; worry-free | |
| 收音机 收音機 | radio | |
| 认得 認得 | to recognize; to remember sth (or sb) on seeing it; to know | |
| 功课 功課 | homework; assignment; task; classwork; lesson; study | |
| 老太太 老太太 | elderly lady (respectful); esteemed mother | |
| 学费 學費 | tuition fee; tuition |