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China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
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Vocabulary
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| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 供 供 | to provide; to supply | |
| 制 製 | to manufacture; to make | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 有所 有所 | somewhat; to some extent | |
| 需 需 | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need | |
| 唯 唯 | only; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义 or 论, e.g. 唯理论, rationalism) | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 以貌取人 以貌取人 | to judge sb by appearances (idiom) | Idiom |
| 一棍子打死 一棍子打死 | to deal a single fatal blow; (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error | Idiom |
| 轰轰烈烈 轟轟烈烈 | strong; vigorous; large-scale | Idiom |
| 患得患失 患得患失 | to worry about personal gains and losses | Idiom |
| 如饥似渴 如飢似渴 | to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth | Idiom |
| 花花世界 花花世界 | the teeming world; the world of sensual pleasures | Xiehouyu |
| 扎扎实实 扎扎實實 | firm; solid; reliable; real; practical | Xiehouyu |
| 懒人 懶人 | lazy person | Xiehouyu |
| 撒手不管 撒手不管 | to stand aside and do nothing (idiom); to take no part in | Xiehouyu |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 光棍 光棍 | gangster; hoodlum; bachelor; single man; (dialect) wise person; astute person | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 喇叭裤 喇叭褲 | flared trousers; bell-bottomed pants | |
| 流浪儿 流浪兒 | street urchin; waif | |
| 犯病 犯病 | to fall ill | |
| 霞光 霞光 | multicolored sunlight of sunrise or sunset | |
| 凑热闹 湊熱鬧 | to join in the fun; to get in on the action; (fig.) to butt in; to create more trouble | |
| 菠萝 菠蘿 | pineapple | |
| 手印 手印 | handprint; fingerprint; thumbprint | |
| 鬼混 鬼混 | to hang around; to fool around; to live aimlessly | |
| 峻岭 峻嶺 | lofty mountain range | |
| 贫下中农 貧下中農 | (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle pe | |
| 撒尿 撒尿 | to pass water; to piss; to urinate; to wee wee | |
| 扣帽子 扣帽子 | to tag sb with unfair label; power word | |
| 剃须刀 剃鬚刀 | shaver; razor | |
| 棉裤 棉褲 | quilted cotton trousers; cotton-padded trousers (worn in winter) | |
| 蹲下 蹲下 | to squat down; to crouch | |
| 赖皮 賴皮 | shameless; (slang) rascal | |
| 杨柳 楊柳 | willow tree; poplar and willow; name of traditional tune | |
| 女主人公 女主人公 | heroine (of a novel or film); main female protagonist | |
| 在理 在理 | reasonable; sensible | |
| 德行 德行 | morality and conduct; Taiwan pr. [de2 xing4] | |
| 生活作风 生活作風 | behavior; conduct | |
| 惹人 惹人 | to provoke (esp. annoyance, disgust etc); to offend; to attract (attention) | |
| 思想包袱 思想包袱 | sth weighing on one's mind |