Hong Kong 73 1974
香港73
As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock speculation crazy. A security guard and his landlord learn firsthand that money is ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’ as their fast fortune disappears overnight in a Macau casino. Meanwhile, greedy neighbours and infidel couples cheat each other and even blue-collar workmen dive into the frenzy. Inevitably, the market tumbles as do the people’s bittersweet lives. A hilarious but ironic tale featuring some of Shaw’s biggest stars.
Vocabulary
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| 收音机 收音機 | radio | |
| 房租 房租 | rent for a room or house | |
| 纪念日 紀念日 | day of commemoration; memorial day | |
| 报到 報到 | to report for duty; to check in; to register | |
| 节约 節約 | to economize; to conserve (resources); economy; frugal | |
| 搬家 搬家 | to move house; to relocate; to remove (sth) | |
| 动人 動人 | touching; moving | |
| 前后 前後 | around; from beginning to end; all around; front and rear | |
| 底下 底下 | the location below sth; afterwards | |
| 干吗 幹嗎 | see 干嘛 | |
| 电台 電臺 | transmitter-receiver; broadcasting station; radio station | |
| 冬 冬 | winter | |
| 手续 手續 | procedure; formalities | |
| 预防 預防 | to prevent; to take precautions against; to protect; to guard against; precautionary; prophylactic | |
| 整整 整整 | whole; full | |
| 巧 巧 | opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely | |
| 屋子 屋子 | house; room | |
| 春 旾 | spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life | |
| 发明 發明 | to invent; an invention | |
| 电视台 電視臺 | television station | |
| 属 屬 | category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute | |
| 批评 批評 | to criticize; criticism | |
| 整天 整天 | all day long; whole day | |
| 退休 退休 | to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement | |
| 广播 廣播 | broadcast; broadcasting; to broadcast; (formal) to propagate; to publicize | |
| 年纪 年紀 | age | |
| 才能 才能 | talent; ability; capacity | |
| 先进 先進 | advanced (technology); to advance | |
| 石头 石頭 | stone | |
| 只好 只好 | to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to | |
| 放到 放到 | Put in | |
| 看起来 看起來 | seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appear to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be | |
| 把握 把握 | to grasp (also fig.); to seize; to hold; assurance; certainty; sure (of the outcome) | |
| 数学 數學 | mathematics; mathematical | |
| 计算 計算 | to count; to calculate; to compute | |
| 石油 石油 | oil; petroleum | |
| 赶到 趕到 | to hurry (to some place) | |
| 福 福 | good fortune; happiness; luck | |
| 纪念 紀念 | to commemorate; to honor the memory of; memento; keepsake; souvenir | |
| 吵 吵 | to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise | |
| 赶快 趕快 | quickly; at once | |
| 工厂 工廠 | factory | |
| 啤酒 啤酒 | beer (loanword) | |
| 造 造 | to make; to build; to manufacture; to invent; to fabricate; to go to; party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement); crop; classifier for crops | |
| 将来 將來 | in the future; future; the future | |
| 合法 合法 | lawful; legitimate; legal | |
| 伤心 傷心 | to grieve; to be broken-hearted; to feel deeply hurt | |
| 缺 缺 | deficiency; lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of | |
| 念 唸 | to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; to give (sb) a tongue-lashing; to miss (sb); idea; remembrance; twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿) | |
| 土 土 | earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 |