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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| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 折磨 折磨 | to torment; to torture | |
| 豪华 豪華 | luxurious | |
| 寻 尋 | to search; to look for; to seek | |
| 人体 人體 | human body | |
| 皆 皆 | all; each and every; in all cases | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 栋 棟 | classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old) | |
| 钥匙 鑰匙 | key | |
| 一阵 一陣 | a burst; a fit; a peal; a spell (period of time) | |
| 竟 竟 | unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed | |
| 屁股 屁股 | buttocks; bottom; butt; back part | |
| 惹 惹 | to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) | |
| 望 望 | full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards | |
| 原本 原本 | originally; original | |
| 告 告 | to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue | |
| 革命 革命 | to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) | |
| 尿 尿 | to urinate; urine | |
| 从未 從未 | never | |
| 吻 吻 | kiss; to kiss; mouth | |
| 哼 哼 | to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 拨 撥 | to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 婚姻 婚姻 | matrimony; wedding; marriage | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 一一 一一 | one by one; one after another | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | surname Wen | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 害群之马 害群之馬 | lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom); fig. troublemaker; black sheep; rotten apple | Idiom |
| 闻所未闻 聞所未聞 | unheard of; an extremely rare and unprecedented event | Idiom |
| 贪官污吏 貪官污吏 | grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption | Idiom |
| 前功尽弃 前功盡棄 | to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drain | Idiom |
| 一意孤行 一意孤行 | obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom); willful; one's own way; dogmatic | Idiom |
| 破罐破摔 破罐破摔 | lit. to smash a pot just because it has a crack (idiom); fig. to give up altogether after a setback; to throw one's hands up in frustration and let it all go to hell | Idiom |
| 坚韧不拔 堅韌不拔 | firm and indomitable (idiom); tenacious and unyielding | Idiom |
| 小媳妇 小媳婦 | young married woman; mistress; (fig.) punching bag; (old) child bride | Xiehouyu |
| 装模作样 裝模作樣 | (idiom) to put on an act; to show affectation; to indulge in histrionics | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 悬 懸 | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation | Xiehouyu |
| 擦屁股 擦屁股 | to wipe one’s ass; (fig.) (coll.) to clean up sb else's mess | Colloquialism |