Eighteen Springs 1997
半生缘
In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.
Vocabulary
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| 娘家 孃家 | wife's family (before marriage) | |
| 样样 樣樣 | all kinds | |
| 烟幕 煙幕 | smokescreen; fig. a diversion | |
| 家产 家產 | family property | |
| 姨太太 姨太太 | concubine | |
| 打理 打理 | to take care of; to sort out; to manage; to put in order | |
| 未婚妻 未婚妻 | fiancée | |
| 冷冷清清 冷冷清清 | deserted; desolate; unfrequented; cold and cheerless; lonely; in quiet isolation | |
| 未婚夫 未婚夫 | fiancé | |
| 不吉利 不吉利 | ominous | |
| 受尽 受盡 | to suffer enough from; to suffer all kinds of; to have one's fill of | |
| 低贱 低賤 | lowly; humble; cheap; inexpensive | |
| 一眨眼 一眨眼 | in a wink | |
| 惊心 驚心 | staggering; shocking; frightened | |
| 瞎猜 瞎猜 | to make a wild guess; blind guess | |
| 失礼 失禮 | discourteous | |
| 棉袄 棉襖 | cotton-padded jacket | |
| 用得着 用得著 | to be able to use; useable; to have a use for; (in a question) to be necessary to | |
| 照应 照應 | to correlate with; to correspond to | |
| 补习 補習 | to take extra lessons in a cram school or with a private tutor | |
| 送行 送行 | to see someone off; to throw someone a send-off party | |
| 一行 一行 | party; delegation | |
| 很难说 很難說 | Hard to say | |
| 酱油 醬油 | soy sauce | |
| 打牌 打牌 | to play mahjong or cards | |
| 日语 日語 | Japanese language | |
| 谦虚 謙虛 | modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks | |
| 书房 書房 | study (room); studio | |
| 明日 明日 | tomorrow | |
| 凡是 凡是 | each and every; every; all; any | |
| 特地 特地 | specially; for a special purpose | |
| 缘故 緣故 | reason; cause | |
| 没收 沒收 | to confiscate; to seize | |
| 织 織 | to weave | |
| 洋 洋 | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 皇帝 皇帝 | emperor | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 焦点 焦點 | focal point; focus (lit. and fig.) | |
| 病情 病情 | state of an illness; patient's condition | |
| 途径 途徑 | way; means; channel | |
| 凶 兇 | terrible; fearful | |
| 同一 同一 | identical; the same | |
| 老鼠 老鼠 | rat; mouse | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 罢了 罷了 | a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much) | |
| 赚钱 賺錢 | to earn money; moneymaking | |
| 夺 奪 | to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose | |
| 当作 當作 | to treat as; to regard as |