Hot Summer Days 2010
全城热恋
In "Hot Summer Days" a hot summer heat wave engulfs the Chinese territory, while the movie covers the lives of various characters during that time. There's chaffeur Wah who tries to woo foot masseur Li Yan via text messages, air conditioner repairman Ah Wai interested in biker girl Ding Dong, a master sushi chef who spurns the love of writer Wasabi, country hick Da Fu who tries to impress teddy bear factory worker Xiao Qi Angela Baby by standing out in the hot noon sun for 100 days, & photographer Leslie Guan & assistant attempting to track down a woman who they believed cursed the photographer into blindness ...
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 主角 主角 | leading role; lead; protagonist | |
| 赚钱 賺錢 | to earn money; moneymaking | |
| 无关 無關 | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) | |
| 提升 提升 | to promote (to a higher-ranking position); to lift; to hoist; (fig.) to elevate; to raise; to improve | |
| 大师 大師 | great master; master | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 档 檔 | official records; grade (of goods); file; records; shelves; slot; gap; crosspiece; classifier for crosspieces; classifier for events, affairs etc; Taiwan pr. [dǎng] | |
| 物品 物品 | articles; goods | |
| 赌 賭 | to bet; to gamble | |
| 晕 暈 | confused; dizzy; giddy; to faint; to swoon; to lose consciousness; to pass out | |
| 餐 餐 | meal; to eat; classifier for meals | |
| 煮 煑 | to cook; to boil | |
| 愉快 愉快 | cheerful; cheerily; delightful; pleasant; pleasantly; pleasing; happy; delighted | |
| 市民 市民 | city resident | |
| 足 足 | excessive | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 炒 炒 | to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 酷 酷 | ruthless; strong (e.g. of wine); (loanword) cool; hip | |
| 剧 劇 | theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe | |
| 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 | |
| 学会 學會 | to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association | |
| 情绪 情緒 | mood; state of mind; moodiness | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 哇 哇 | Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 同 同 | like; same; similar; together; alike; with | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 臭美 臭美 | to show off one's good looks shamelessly | Xiehouyu |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 礼拜 禮拜 | to attend a religious service; (coll.) week; (coll.) Sunday | Colloquialism |
| 神经 神經 | nerve; mental state; (coll.) unhinged; nutjob | Colloquialism |
| 秒 秒 | second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly | Colloquialism |
| 沅 沅 | name of a river in western Hunan that flows into Dongting lake | |
| 粉红色 粉紅色 | pink | |
| 弹琴 彈琴 | to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument | |
| 莫 莫 | do not (literary) | |
| 神经病 神經病 | mental disorder; neuropathy; (derog.) mental case | |
| 指挥家 指揮家 | (music) conductor | |
| 咒 呪 | curse, damn, incantation | |
| 冰棒 冰棒 | popsicle; ice pop | |
| 琪 琪 | type of jade | |
| 简讯 簡訊 | newsletter; the news in brief; (Tw) SMS message | |
| 釭 釭 | tire of wheel; band | |
| 食谱 食譜 | cookbook; recipe; diet | |
| 老兄 老兄 | elder brother (often used self-referentially); (form of address between male friends) old chap; buddy | |
| 辈子 輩子 | all one's life; lifetime | |
| 插头 插頭 | plug |