Electric Shadows 2005
电影往事
For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in custody. Her tiny apartment, he discovers, is a shrine to his favorite escape, the movies.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 寂寞 寂寞 | lonely; lonesome; (of a place) quiet; silent | |
| 伴 伴 | partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany | |
| 钥匙 鑰匙 | key | |
| 失踪 失蹤 | to be missing; to disappear; unaccounted for | |
| 怀孕 懷孕 | pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy | |
| 天使 天使 | angel | |
| 告 告 | to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 革命 革命 | to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) | |
| 眼神 眼神 | expression or emotion showing in one's eyes; meaningful glance; wink; eyesight (dialect) | |
| 哼 哼 | to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! | |
| 枚 枚 | classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc; tree trunk; whip; wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old) | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 袭击 襲擊 | attack (esp. surprise attack); raid; to attack | |
| 罗 羅 | gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 风华正茂 風華正茂 | in one's prime | Idiom |
| 才子佳人 才子佳人 | lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom); fig. pair of ideal lovers | Idiom |
| 自取灭亡 自取滅亡 | to court disaster (idiom); to dig one's own grave | Idiom |
| 一箭双雕 一箭雙鵰 | lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom); to kill two birds with one stone | Idiom |
| 拍马屁 拍馬屁 | to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking | Xiehouyu |
| 平白无故 平白無故 | (idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably | Xiehouyu |
| 野种 野種 | (derog.) illegitimate child; bastard | Xiehouyu |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 玲玲 玲玲 | (onom.) tinkling (e.g. of jewels) | |
| 砖头 磚頭 | brick | |
| 揍死 揍死 | to beat to death | |
| 漫漫 漫漫 | long; endless; boundless | |
| 播音 播音 | to transmit; to broadcast | |
| 琵琶 琵琶 | pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard | |
| 歌谣 歌謠 | folksong; ballad; nursery rhyme | |
| 虚发 虛發 | to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow) | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child | |
| 砸死 砸死 | to crush to death | |
| 误工 誤工 | to be late for or absent from work; to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work; loss of working time; a holdup | |
| 播送 播送 | to broadcast; to transmit; to beam | |
| 舞剧 舞劇 | dance drama; ballet | |
| 现形 現形 | to become visible; to appear; to manifest one's true nature | |
| 炸碎 炸碎 | to destroy in an explosion; to break (by bombing) | |
| 小资产阶级 小資產階級 | petty bourgeois | |
| 辱骂 辱罵 | to insult; to revile; abuse; vituperation | |
| 唾弃 唾棄 | to spurn; to disdain | |
| 小妖精 小妖精 | goblin; hussy; floozy |