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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| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 觉 覺 | a nap; a sleep | |
| 部队 部隊 | army; armed forces; troops; force; unit | |
| 遗憾 遺憾 | regret; to regret; to be sorry that | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 股 股 | thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (stock) share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions | |
| 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 | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 镇 鎮 | to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 藏 藏 | Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 逼 偪 | variant of 逼; to compel; to pressure | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 哇 哇 | Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning | |
| 同 同 | like; same; similar; together; alike; with | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 鬼使神差 鬼使神差 | demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation; curious coincidence | Idiom |
| 披星戴月 披星戴月 | to travel or work through night and day; to toil away for long hours | Idiom |
| 狗嘴里吐不出象牙 狗嘴裏吐不出象牙 | lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom); fig. one does not expect fine words from a scoundrel | Idiom |
| 滚蛋 滾蛋 | get out of here!; beat it! | Xiehouyu |
| 丫 丫 | forked; bifurcation | |
| 蓓 蓓 | bud | |
| 蚂蚁 螞蟻 | ant | |
| 我操 我操 | (substitute for) fuck; WTF | |
| 欧巴 歐巴 | (female usage) older brother (loanword from Korean "oppa"); male friend | |
| 呐 吶 | modal particle | |
| 来劲 來勁 | (dialect) to be full of zeal; high-spirited; exhilarating; to stir sb up | |
| 傻子 傻子 | idiot; fool | |
| 莫 莫 | do not (literary) | |
| 高声 高聲 | aloud; loud; loudly | |
| 晓 曉 | dawn, daybreak; clear, explicit | |
| 怒 怒 | anger | |
| 妮 妮 | maid, servant girl; cute girl | |
| 娅 婭 | mutual term of address used by sons-in-law; a brother-in-law | |
| 囱 囪 | chimney | |
| 犯错 犯錯 | to err; to make a mistake; to do the wrong thing | |
| 心神 心神 | mind; state of mind; attention; (Chinese medicine) psychic constitution | |
| 彪 彪 | tiger; tiger stripes; tiger-like | |
| 妞 妞 | girl | |
| 有劲 有勁 | vigorous; energetic; interesting; amusing |