Taipei Story 1985
青梅竹马
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 趁 趁 | to avail oneself of; to take advantage of | |
| 不准 不准 | not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 娶 娶 | to take a wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 涂 塗 | to apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub; to blot out; to scribble; to scrawl; (literary) mud; street | |
| 栋 棟 | classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old) | |
| 钥匙 鑰匙 | key | |
| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 望 望 | full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 率 率 | rate; frequency | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 需 需 | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 感 感 | to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 偷工减料 偷工減料 | to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom); jerry-building; sloppy work | Idiom |
| 拐弯抹角 拐彎抹角 | lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom); fig. to speak in a roundabout way; to equivocate; to beat about the bush | Idiom |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 弄不清 弄不清 | unable to figure out | |
| 住宅区 住宅區 | residential area; housing development | |
| 万灵丹 萬靈丹 | panacea; cure-all | |
| 加薪 加薪 | to raise salary | |
| 塞车 塞車 | traffic jam | |
| 僵住 僵住 | motionless; unable to move | |
| 传宗接代 傳宗接代 | to carry on one's ancestral line | |
| 塞给 塞給 | to slip sb sth; to press sb to accept sth; to insert surreptitiously; to foist sth off on sb | |
| 便当 便當 | convenient; handy; easy; bento (a meal in a partitioned box); lunchbox | |
| 叮叮当当 叮叮噹噹 | (onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound | |
| 泡吧 泡吧 | to spend time in a bar (alcohol, Internet etc); to go clubbing | |
| 扁担 扁擔 | carrying pole; shoulder pole | |
| 小便宜 小便宜 | petty advantage; small gains | |
| 乌青 烏青 | bluish black; bruise; bruising (CL:) | |
| 佣人 傭人 | servant | |
| 不顺 不順 | unfavorable; adverse | |
| 寻短见 尋短見 | to commit suicide | |
| 冷气 冷氣 | air conditioning (Tw) | |
| 录音机 錄音機 | (tape) recording machine; tape recorder | |
| 打官司 打官司 | to file a lawsuit; to sue; to dispute | |
| 钟头 鐘頭 | hour | |
| 要好 要好 | to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement | |
| 办事处 辦事處 | office; agency | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter |