Immortal Story 1986
海上花
Set in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, IMMORTAL STORY depicts the story of the love affair between a small time chanteuse and her Japanese beau. They met when both were young and pretty and again many years later when he had became a drug addict and she a fallen woman.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 放手 放手 | to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand | |
| 仿佛 彷彿 | to seem; as if; alike; similar | |
| 同一 同一 | identical; the same | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 幻想 幻想 | delusion; fantasy | |
| 被告 被告 | defendant | |
| 踏 踏 | see 踏实 | |
| 厕所 廁所 | toilet; lavatory | |
| 界 界 | (bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm | |
| 晕 暈 | confused; dizzy; giddy; to faint; to swoon; to lose consciousness; to pass out | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 踢 踢 | to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 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 | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 利 利 | sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit | |
| 权 權 | authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary | |
| 逼 偪 | to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 荣华富贵 榮華富貴 | glory, splendor, wealth and rank (idiom); high position and great wealth | Idiom |
| 收拾 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 玲 玲 | tinkling of jade | |
| 掌 掌 | palm of hand, sole of foot, paw | |
| 迫 廹 | coerce, force, compel; urgent | |
| 应承 應承 | to agree (to do sth); to promise | |
| 盈 盈 | fill; full, overflowing; surplus | |
| 红尘 紅塵 | the world of mortals (Buddhism); human society; worldly affairs | |
| 留遗 留遺 | to leave behind; sb's legacy | |
| 掌上电脑 掌上電腦 | handheld computer; PDA (personal digital assistant); Pocket PC | |
| 伏 伏 | crouch, crawl, lie hidden, conceal | |
| 搽 搽 | smear; rub, wipe; anoint | |
| 契 契 | deed, contract, bond; engrave | |
| 球赛 球賽 | (ball sports) game; match | |
| 嬴 嬴 | to win; to have a surplus; surname | |
| 犯法 犯法 | to break the law | |
| 掂 掂 | heft, hold or weigh in palm | |
| 董 董 | direct, supervise; surname | |
| 握住 握住 | to grip; to hold | |
| 何 何 | what (literary) | |
| 召 召 | imperial decree; summon | |
| 被告人 被告人 | defendant (in legal case) | |
| 庭 庭 | courtyard; spacious hall or yard | |
| 作证 作證 | to bear witness; to testify; to serve as evidence | |
| 贩毒 販毒 | to traffic narcotics; drugs trade; opium trade | |
| 无药可救 無藥可救 | lit. no antidote is possible (idiom); incurable; incorrigible; beyond redemption | |
| 腻 膩 | greasy, oily, dirty; smooth |