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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.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 袁 袁 | robe; surname | |
| 枫 楓 | maple tree | |
| 燕 燕 | swallow (bird); comfort, enjoy | |
| 吕 呂 | surname; a musical note | |
| 玲 玲 | tinkling of jade | |
| 薛 薛 | kind of marsh grass; feudal state | |
| 怎 怎 | how (variant of 怎么) | |
| 劳动者 勞動者 | worker; laborer | |
| 代沟 代溝 | generation gap | |
| 斜眼 斜眼 | to look askance; cross or wall-eyed | |
| 工农兵 工農兵 | workers, peasants, and soldiers; the proletariat | |
| 石榴 石榴 | pomegranate | |
| 小姑 小姑 | father's youngest sister; husband's younger sister; sister-in-law | |
| 辉 輝 | brightness, luster, brilliance | |
| 来劲 來勁 | (dialect) to be full of zeal; high-spirited; exhilarating; to stir sb up | |
| 嗓门 嗓門 | voice; windpipe | |
| 泉水 泉水 | spring water | |
| 静悄悄 靜悄悄 | extremely quiet | |
| 战舰 戰艦 | battleship; warship | |
| 柳叶眉 柳葉眉 | long, shapely eyebrows | |
| 画眉 畫眉 | to apply makeup to the eyebrows; (bird species of China) Chinese hwamei (Garrulax canorus) | |
| 对劲 對勁 | suitable; to one's liking; to get along together | |
| 老爷 老爺 | master, sir | |
| 什么话 什麼話 | what kind of talk | |
| 神经病 神經病 | mental disorder; neuropathy; (derog.) mental case | |
| 郝 郝 | surname; place in modern Shanxi | |
| 侯 侯 | marquis, lord; target in archery | |
| 小秘 小秘 | (ironically) "secretary" (i.e. boss's mistress) | |
| 邯 邯 | city in Hebei province; various | |
| 衷 衷 | inner feelings | |
| 操你妈 操你媽 | fuck your mother (vulgar) | |
| 知青 知青 | educated youth (esp. those sent to work in rural areas during the Cultural Revolution) | |
| 军委 軍委 | Military Commission of the Communist Party Central Committee | |
| 中央军委 中央軍委 | Central Military Committee (CMC) | |
| 司令员 司令員 | commander | |
| 三军 三軍 | (in former times) upper, middle and lower army; army of right, center and left; (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force | |
| 眉目 眉目 | general facial appearance; features; arrangement; sequence of ideas; logic (of writing); rough sketch or general idea of things | |
| 吱声 吱聲 | to utter a word; to make a sound; to cheep; to squeak; also pr. [zi1 sheng1] | |
| 煤油 煤油 | kerosene | |
| 黑洞洞 黑洞洞 | pitch-dark | |
| 媒婆 媒婆 | matchmaker | |
| 放声 放聲 | very loudly; at the top of one's voice | |
| 靳 靳 | surname Jin | |
| 何 何 | what (literary) | |
| 听清 聽清 | to hear clearly | |
| 萦 縈 | entangle, entwine, coil | |
| 不管怎样 不管怎樣 | in any case; no matter what | |
| 待会 待會 | wait a minute; stop a while | |
| 厢 廂 | side-room, wing; theatre box | |
| 彪 彪 | tiger; tiger stripes; tiger-like |