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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| 追求 追求 | to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after; to woo | |
| 不然 不然 | not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? | |
| 户 戶 | a household; door; family | |
| 原则 原則 | principle; doctrine | |
| 闹 鬧 | noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke | |
| 号码 號碼 | number | |
| 烦 煩 | to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy | |
| 材料 材料 | (raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job | |
| 冰 冰 | ice; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold; (of a person) cold; unfriendly; (slang) methamphetamine | |
| 出色 出色 | remarkable; outstanding | |
| 美女 美女 | beautiful woman | |
| 激动 激動 | to move emotionally; to stir up (emotions); to excite | |
| 摆 擺 | to arrange; to exhibit; to move to and fro; a pendulum | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 替 替 | to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for | |
| 毕业 畢業 | graduation; to graduate; to finish school | |
| 优秀 優秀 | outstanding; excellent | |
| 货 貨 | goods; money; commodity | |
| 抽 抽 | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash | |
| 失败 失敗 | to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat | |
| 圈 圈 | to confine; to lock up; to pen in | |
| 梦想 夢想 | (fig.) to dream of; dream | |
| 免费 免費 | free (of charge) | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 冲 沖 | (of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse; to rinse; to flush; to develop (a film); to rise in the air; to clash; to collide with | |
| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 投 投 | to cast; to send; to throw oneself (into the river etc); to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of | |
| 无论 無論 | no matter what or how; regardless of whether... | |
| 方 方 | square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter | |
| 非 非 | abbr. for 洲, Africa | |
| 严重 嚴重 | grave; serious; severe; critical | |
| 首 首 | head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc | |
| 考虑 考慮 | to think over; to consider; consideration | |
| 政府 政府 | government | |
| 之前 之前 | before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 亲 親 | parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear | Xiehouyu |
| 死人 死人 | dead person; (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen | Colloquialism |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 整 整 | exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 苏州 蘇州 | Suzhou, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province | Proper Noun |
| 村长 村長 | village chief; village head | Proper Noun |
| 银座 銀座 | Ginza (district in Tokyo) | Proper Noun |
| 红灯区 紅燈區 | red-light district | Proper Noun |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 己 己 | self, oneself; personal, private; 6th heavenly stem |