Fly Me to Polaris 1999
星愿
A young man, blind and dumb, works as an audio tape typist in a hospital and fostering a tender and sincere relationship with a beautiful but introverted nurse. When hit by a car, he is the sixty billionth human being to die on earth, and is on transit to Polaris, en route to a yet more sophisticated form of existence in Vega. Given a reprieve of five days and a chance to be reunited with his love on earth, he cannot reveal his true identity behind the temporary facade he must present to her. Both boy and girl eventually learn, through a tangle of difficult and miraculous events, how love and good things always find ways of creeping into people's lives when people are not greedy and least expect these blessings.
Vocabulary
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| 病房 病房 | ward (of a hospital); sickroom | |
| 特意 特意 | specially; intentionally | |
| 演奏 演奏 | to perform on a musical instrument | |
| 捉 捉 | to clutch; to grab; to capture | |
| 洋 洋 | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 用心 用心 | motive; intention; to be diligent or attentive; careful | |
| 难忘 難忘 | unforgettable | |
| 缺陷 缺陷 | defect; flaw | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 极端 極端 | extreme | |
| 扭 扭 | to turn; to twist; to wring; to sprain; to swing one's hips | |
| 抱歉 抱歉 | to be sorry; to feel apologetic; sorry! | |
| 新人 新人 | newcomer; fresh talent; newlywed, esp. new bride; bride and groom; (paleoanthropology) Homo sapiens | |
| 磨 磨 | to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist | |
| 同一 同一 | identical; the same | |
| 沿着 沿著 | to go along; to follow | |
| 会见 會見 | to meet with (sb who is paying a visit) | |
| 天下 天下 | land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 幻想 幻想 | delusion; fantasy | |
| 惨 慘 | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy | |
| 遭遇 遭遇 | to meet with; to encounter; (bitter) experience | |
| 厕所 廁所 | toilet; lavatory | |
| 智慧 智慧 | wisdom; knowledge; intelligent; intelligence | |
| 道歉 道歉 | to apologize | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 踩 跴 | to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote | |
| 煮 煑 | to cook; to boil | |
| 给予 給予 | (literary) to give; to accord; to render | |
| 嗨 嗨 | oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword) | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 档案 檔案 | file; record; archive | |
| 透露 透露 | to leak out; to divulge; to reveal | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 能否 能否 | whether or not; can it or can't it; is it possible? | |
| 母 母 | mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 最佳 最佳 | optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc) | |
| 股 股 | thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (stock) share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions | |
| 之类 之類 | and so on; and such | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 迟了 遲了 | late | Xiehouyu |
| 一团糟 一團糟 | chaos; bungle; complete mess; shambles | Xiehouyu |
| 卓 卓 | profound, brilliant, lofty | |
| 柠 檸 | lemon | |
| 珍宝 珍寶 | a treasure |