Old Fox 2023
老狐狸
Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.
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Vocabulary
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| 烫 燙 | to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (sth) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot | |
| 钻石 鑽石 | diamond | |
| 拍卖 拍賣 | to auction; auction sale; to sell at a reduced price | |
| 绑架 綁架 | to kidnap; to abduct; to hijack; a kidnapping; abduction; staking | |
| 不准 不准 | not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 标 標 | mark; sign; label; to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc; to bear (a brand name, registration number etc); prize; award; bid; target; quota; (old) the topmost branches of a tree; visible symptom; classifier for military units | |
| 竟 竟 | unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed | |
| 丁 丁 | male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 干; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl | |
| 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 | |
| 置 置 | to install; to place; to put; to buy | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 码 碼 | weight; number; code; to pile; to stack; classifier for length or distance (yard), happenings etc | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 不屈不挠 不屈不撓 | unyielding; indomitable | Idiom |
| 鬼扯 鬼扯 | nonsense; humbug; bunk; bullshit | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 擦屁股 擦屁股 | to wipe one’s ass; (fig.) (coll.) to clean up sb else's mess | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 姊姊 姊姊 | older sister; Taiwan pr. [jie3 jie5] | |
| 屁事 屁事 | (vulgar) trifling matter; mere trifle; goddamn thing; goddamn business | |
| 理发店 理髮店 | barbershop; hairdresser's | |
| 凶宅 兇宅 | inauspicious abode; haunted house | |
| 吹喇叭 吹喇叭 | (lit.) blowing the trumpet; (fig.) to praise sb; (slang) to give a blowjob | |
| 正方形 正方形 | square | |
| 菱形 菱形 | rhombus | |
| 袖子 袖子 | sleeve | |
| 萨克斯 薩克斯 | sax; saxophone | |
| 闭路电视 閉路電視 | closed-circuit television | |
| 平行四边形 平行四邊形 | parallelogram | |
| 穴居 穴居 | to live in a cave; (of animals) to be of burrowing habit | |
| 泡茶 泡茶 | to make tea | |
| 发廊 髮廊 | hair salon; hairdresser's shop | |
| 他娘的 他孃的 | same as | |
| 百货公司 百貨公司 | department store | |
| 茶壶 茶壺 | teapot | |
| 原价 原價 | original price | |
| 足足 足足 | fully; no less than; as much as; extremely | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child | |
| 结帐 結帳 | variant of | |
| 打拳 打拳 | to do shadowboxing | |
| 滴水 滴水 | water drop; dripping water | |
| 脚踏 腳踏 | pedal |