Springtime in a Small Town 2002
小城之春
In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.
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Vocabulary
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| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 许 許 | to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps | |
| 需 需 | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need | |
| 丝 絲 | silk; thread; trace; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 感 感 | to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ | |
| 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° | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 霞 霞 | rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset | |
| 坡 坡 | slope; sloping; slanted | |
| 识 識 | to know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. [shì] | |
| 洋 洋 | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin | |
| 炮 炮 | to sauté; to fry; to dry by heating | |
| 景 景 | (bound form) scenery; circumstance; situation; scene (of a play); (literary) sunlight | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 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 | |
| 沿 沿 | along; to follow (a line, tradition etc); to carry on; to trim (a border with braid, tape etc); border; edge | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role | |
| 园 園 | land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 园, such as a botanical garden 植物园, kindergarten 幼儿园 etc | |
| 磨 磨 | to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist | |
| 铺 鋪 | to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker | |
| 灭 滅 | to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown | |
| 佛 佛 | seemingly | |
| 险 險 | danger; dangerous; rugged | |
| 肺 肺 | lung | |
| 撑 撐 | to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; brace; stay; support | |
| 章 章 | chapter; section; clause; movement (of symphony); seal; badge; regulation; order | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 踩 跴 | to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote | |
| 界 界 | (bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 绝 絕 | to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means | |
| 托 托 | prop; support (for weight); rest (e.g. arm rest); thanks to; to hold in one's hand; to support in one's palm; to give; to base; to commit; to set; torr (unit of pressure) | |
| 端 端 | end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth level with both hands; to carry; regular | |
| 除 除 | to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including | |
| 母 母 | mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 觉 覺 | to feel; to find that; thinking; awake; aware | |
| 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 | |
| 服 服 | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes | |
| 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 | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 赛 賽 | to compete; competition; match; to surpass; better than; superior to; to excel |