In the Heat of the Sun 1994
阳光灿烂的日子
Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."
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Vocabulary
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| 年年 年年 | year after year; yearly; every year; annually | |
| 老妈子 老媽子 | older female servant; amah | |
| 哥儿 哥兒 | brothers; boys | |
| 天涯 天涯 | the other end of the world; a faraway place | |
| 十几 十幾 | more than ten; a dozen or more | |
| 人人 人人 | everyone; every person | |
| 一次 一次 | first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) | |
| 十五 十五 | fifteen; 15 | |
| 没影 沒影 | to vanish; to be nowhere to be found; unfounded (story) | |
| 绊住 絆住 | to entangle; to hinder; to impede movement | |
| 进水 進水 | to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc); to get flooded; inflow of water | |
| 做小 做小 | to be sb's concubine | |
| 工学 工學 | engineering; industrial science | |
| 月工 月工 | worker employed by the month | |
| 好几 好幾 | several; quite a few | |
| 不在 不在 | not to be present; to be out; (euphemism) to pass away; to be deceased | |
| 开门 開門 | to open a door (lit. and fig.); to open for business | |
| 怎么回事 怎麼回事 | what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? | |
| 每年 每年 | every year; each year; yearly | |
| 午 午 | noon; 7th terrestrial branch | |
| 找着 找著 | to find | |
| 在一起 在一起 | together | |
| 在后 在後 | behind | |
| 女的 女的 | woman | |
| 两回事 兩回事 | two quite different things; two unrelated matters | |
| 记错 記錯 | to remember incorrectly | |
| 上天 上天 | Heaven; Providence; God; the sky above; to fly skywards; (euphemism) to die; to pass away; the previous day (or days) | |
| 说起 說起 | to mention; to bring up (a subject); with regard to; as for | |
| 地儿 地兒 | place; space | |
| 过人 過人 | to surpass others; outstanding; (basketball, soccer etc) to get past an opponent | |
| 老本 老本 | capital; assets; savings; nest egg; (fig.) reputation; laurels (to rest upon); old edition of a book; (tree) trunk | |
| 下半 下半 | second half | |
| 男的 男的 | man | |
| 从来没 從來沒 | have never; has never | |
| 回见 回見 | See you later! | |
| 家去 家去 | (dialect) to go home; to return home | |
| 回事 回事 | (old) to report to one's master | |
| 学好 學好 | to follow good examples | |
| 看不出 看不出 | can't discern | |
| 叫早 叫早 | to give sb a wake-up call (at a hotel) | |
| 你我 你我 | you and I; everyone; all of us (in society); we (people in general) | |
| 不明 不明 | not clear; unknown; to fail to understand | |
| 跟着 跟著 | to follow after; immediately afterwards | |
| 一点 一點 | a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia | |
| 不下 不下 | to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc) | |
| 着呢 著呢 | comes at the end of the sentence to indicate a strong degree; quite; rather | |
| 二十 二十 | twenty; 20 | |
| 五四 五四 | fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles | |
| 不忙 不忙 | there's no hurry; take one's time | |
| 好玩 好玩 | amusing; fun; interesting |