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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| 识 識 | to know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. [shì] | |
| 便是 便是 | (emphasizes that sth is precisely or exactly as stated); precisely; exactly; even; if; just like; in the same way as | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 壶 壺 | pot; classifier for bottled liquid | |
| 陆军 陸軍 | army; ground forces | |
| 哎哟 哎喲 | hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 出名 出名 | well-known for sth; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc) | |
| 过后 過後 | after the event | |
| 拿走 拿走 | to take away | |
| 懒 懶 | lazy | |
| 炮 炮 | to sauté; to fry; to dry by heating | |
| 大使 大使 | ambassador; envoy | |
| 跪 跪 | to kneel | |
| 丧失 喪失 | to lose; to forfeit | |
| 横 橫 | horizontal; across; crosswise; horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters); to place (sth) flat (on a surface); to cross (a river, etc); in a jumble; chaotic; (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable; violent | |
| 诞生 誕生 | to be born | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role | |
| 抱歉 抱歉 | to be sorry; to feel apologetic; sorry! | |
| 误 誤 | mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly | |
| 正当 正當 | timely; just (when needed) | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 从不 從不 | never | |
| 放手 放手 | to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand | |
| 祖国 祖國 | motherland | |
| 仿佛 彷彿 | to seem; as if; alike; similar | |
| 咋 咋 | dialectal equivalent of 怎么 | |
| 同一 同一 | identical; the same | |
| 消灭 消滅 | to put an end to; to annihilate; to cause to perish; to perish; annihilation (in quantum field theory) | |
| 捡 撿 | to pick up; to collect; to gather | |
| 狠 狠 | ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 隐藏 隱藏 | to hide; to conceal; to mask; to shelter; to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden); to hide oneself; to lie low; to nestle; hidden; implicit; private; covert; recessed (lighting) | |
| 暴露 暴露 | to expose; to reveal; to lay bare; also pr. [pù lù] | |
| 幻想 幻想 | delusion; fantasy | |
| 大街 大街 | street; main street | |
| 钻 鑽 | to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain | |
| 扎 扎 | (of troops) to be stationed (at); Taiwan pr. [zhá] | |
| 混乱 混亂 | confusion; chaos; disorder | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 陷入 陷入 | to sink into; to get caught up in; to land in (a predicament) | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 为此 為此 | for this reason; with regards to this; in this respect; in order to do this; to this end | |
| 嗨 嗨 | oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword) | |
| 料 料 | material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 胸 胷 | chest; bosom; heart; mind; thorax | |
| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on |