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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| 遭遇 遭遇 | to meet with; to encounter; (bitter) experience | |
| 无关 無關 | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 偏 偏 | to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations | |
| 煮 煑 | to cook; to boil | |
| 至于 至於 | as for; as to; to go so far as to | |
| 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 | |
| 惊喜 驚喜 | nice surprise; to be pleasantly surprised | |
| 炒 炒 | to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 服 服 | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes | |
| 藏 藏 | Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 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 | |
| 两全其美 兩全其美 | to satisfy rival demands (idiom); to get the best of both worlds; to have it both ways; to have one's cake and eat it too | Idiom |
| 臭钱 臭錢 | dirty money | Xiehouyu |
| 穷鬼 窮鬼 | (vulgar) impoverished person; the poor | Xiehouyu |
| 迟了 遲了 | late | Xiehouyu |
| 为难 為難 | to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage) | Xiehouyu |
| 收拾 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 神经 神經 | nerve; mental state; (coll.) unhinged; nutjob | Colloquialism |
| 钧 鈞 | unit of measure equivalent to thirty catties | |
| 惠 惠 | favor, benefit, confer kindness | |
| 桢 楨 | hardwood; supports, posts | |
| 瑾 瑾 | brilliance of gems; fine jade | |
| 翠 翠 | color green; kingfisher | |
| 芝 芝 | Zoysia pungens | |
| 璐 璐 | beautiful variety of jade | |
| 豫 豫 | relaxed, comfortable, at ease | |
| 鹏 鵬 | fabulous bird of enormous size | |
| 姑爷 姑爺 | son-in-law (used by wife's family); uncle (husband of father's sister) | |
| 芳 芳 | fragrant; virtuous; beautiful | |
| 出品 出品 | to produce an item; output; items that are produced | |
| 蚶 蚶 | kind of clam, arca inflata | |
| 罚站 罰站 | to be made to stand still as a punishment | |
| 伟 偉 | great, robust; extraordinary | |
| 神经病 神經病 | mental disorder; neuropathy; (derog.) mental case | |
| 烈女 烈女 | a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death | |
| 荣 榮 | glory, honor; flourish, prosper |