Farewell My Concubine 1993
霸王别姬
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 泡 泡 | puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names); classifier for urine or feces | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 剧 劇 | theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe | |
| 时期 時期 | period; phase | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 觉 覺 | a nap; a sleep | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 解 解 | to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection | |
| 为何 為何 | why | |
| 剑 劍 | double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword | |
| 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 | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 自我 自我 | self-; ego (psychology) | |
| 威胁 威脅 | to threaten; to menace | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 队伍 隊伍 | ranks; troops; queue; line; procession | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 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 | |
| 集 集 | to gather; to collect; collected works; classifier for sections of a TV series etc: episode | |
| 逼 偪 | variant of 逼; to compel; to pressure | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 因 囙 | cause; reason; because | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 于 | (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 牛鬼蛇神 牛鬼蛇神 | evil monsters; (fig.) bad characters; (political) bad elements | Idiom |
| 姹紫嫣红 奼紫嫣紅 | lit. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom); fig. beautiful flowers | Idiom |
| 寿比南山 壽比南山 | Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom); Long may you live! | Idiom |
| 血口喷人 血口噴人 | to spit blood (idiom); venomous slander; malicious attacks | Idiom |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 有戏 有戲 | (coll.) promising; likely to turn out well | Colloquialism |
| 慌 慌 | to get panicky; to lose one's head; (coll.) (after 得) unbearably; terribly | Colloquialism |
| 蝶 蜨 | butterfly | |
| 袁 袁 | robe; surname | |
| 菊 菊 | chrysanthemum | |
| 虞 虞 | concerned about, anxious, worried | |
| 唱戏 唱戲 | to perform in opera | |
| 卿 卿 | noble, high officer | |
| 小豆 小豆 | azuki bean; red bean | |
| 师弟 師弟 | younger fellow disciple | |
| 呐 吶 | modal particle | |
| 癞 癩 | leprosy, scabies, mange; shoddy | |
| 妾 妾 | concubine; I (humble, female) | |
| 蛐 蛐 | cricket; worm | |
| 兮 兮 | exclamatory particle | |
| 听戏 聽戲 | to attend an opera; to see an opera |