I Am Not Madame Bovary 2016
我不是潘金莲
Li Xuelian, a woman from the countryside is falsely accused by her husband of having an affair. To defend herself, Li moves from her small town to the big city until she reached the capital.
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Vocabulary
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| 搞定 搞定 | to fix; to settle; to wangle | |
| 私心 私心 | selfishness; selfish motives | |
| 搞乱 搞亂 | to mess up; to mismanage; to bungle; to confuse; to muddle | |
| 唱戏 唱戲 | to perform in opera | |
| 烧饼 燒餅 | baked sesame seed-coated cake | |
| 负责任 負責任 | to take responsibility; to bear responsibility; to be responsible | |
| 似 似 | resemble (literary) | |
| 侯 侯 | marquis, lord; target in archery | |
| 看清 看清 | to see clearly | |
| 农贸市场 農貿市場 | farmer's market | |
| 焉 焉 | thereupon, then; how? why? where? | |
| 碍 礙 | obstruct, hinder, block, deter | |
| 木器 木器 | wooden articles | |
| 绪 緒 | end of thread; thread, clue | |
| 起因 起因 | cause; a factor (leading to an effect) | |
| 犯法 犯法 | to break the law | |
| 流产 流產 | to have a miscarriage; (fig.) to fail; to fall through | |
| 厂长 廠長 | factory director | |
| 只见 只見 | to see (the same thing) over and over again; to see, to one's surprise, (sth happen suddenly) | |
| 闭幕 閉幕 | the curtain falls; lower the curtain; to come to an end (of a meeting) | |
| 救灾 救災 | to relieve disaster; to help disaster victims | |
| 起到 起到 | (in an expression of the form 起到…用) to have (a (motivating etc) effect); to play (a (stabilizing etc) role) | |
| 成语 成語 | Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage | |
| 年前 年前 | by the end of the year; at the end of the year; shortly before New Year | |
| 落实 落實 | practical; workable; to implement; to carry out; to decide | |
| 跟前 跟前 | the front (of); (in) front; (in) sb's presence; just before (a date) | |
| 治理 治理 | to govern; to administer; to manage; to control; governance | |
| 开幕 開幕 | to open (a conference); to inaugurate | |
| 被动 被動 | passive | |
| 敲门 敲門 | to knock on a door | |
| 大象 大象 | elephant | |
| 灾 災 | disaster; calamity | |
| 亏 虧 | deficiency; deficit; luckily; it's lucky that...; (often ironically) fancy that... | |
| 风光 風光 | scene; view; sight; landscape; to be well-regarded; to be well-off; grand (dialect); impressive (dialect) | |
| 原先 原先 | originally; original; former | |
| 罚款 罰款 | to fine; penalty; fine (monetary) | |
| 岸 㟁 | bank; shore; beach; coast | |
| 交代 交代 | to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end | |
| 再也 再也 | (not) any more | |
| 机制 機制 | mechanism | |
| 回避 迴避 | to shun; to avoid (sb); to skirt; to evade (an issue); to step back; to withdraw; to recuse (a judge etc) | |
| 肠 腸 | intestines | |
| 胆 膽 | gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) | |
| 城里 城裡 | In the city | |
| 从中 從中 | from within; therefrom | |
| 现状 現狀 | current situation | |
| 人间 人間 | the human world; the earth | |
| 闲 閒 | idle; unoccupied; leisure | |
| 餐馆 餐館 | restaurant | |
| 围绕 圍繞 | to revolve around; to center on (an issue) |