Taipei Story

Taipei Story 1985

青梅竹马 qīngméizhúmǎ

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.

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3.45 Beginner Director Edward Yang 🍅 100%

Cast

Tsai Chin Tsai Chin Chin Hou Hsiao-hsien Hou Hsiao-hsien Lung Wu Nien-jen Wu Nien-jen Chen Lin Hsiu-Ling Lin Hsiu-Ling A-Ling Su-Yun Ko Su-Yun Ko Gwan Ko I-chen Ko I-chen Mr. Ke Mei Fang Mei Fang Chin's Mother Wu Ping-nan Wu Ping-nan Chin's Father Yang Li-yin Yang Li-yin Qin Grace Chen Grace Chen Mrs. Mei

Vocabulary

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打电话 打電話 dǎ diàn huà to make a telephone call HSK 1
累 累 lěi to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lèi]); continuous; repeated HSK 1
回去 回去 huí qu to return; to go back HSK 1
爸 爸 bà father; dad; pa; papa HSK 1
记 記 jì to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots HSK 1
早上 早上 zǎo shang early morning HSK 1
飞机 飛機 fēi jī airplane HSK 1
房子 房子 fáng zi house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room HSK 1
不用 不用 bù yòng need not HSK 1
家里 家裡 jiā lǐ home HSK 1
差 差 chā difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly HSK 1
床 床 chuáng bed; couch; classifier for beds HSK 1
西 西 Xī the West; abbr. for Spain 牙; Spanish HSK 1
票 票 piào ticket; ballot; banknote; person held for ransom; amateur performance of Chinese opera; classifier for groups, batches, business transactions HSK 1
电脑 電腦 diàn nǎo computer HSK 1
睡觉 睡覺 shuì jiào to go to bed; to sleep HSK 1
热 熱 rè to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent HSK 1
去年 去年 qù nián last year HSK 1
高兴 高興 gāo xìng happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood HSK 1
字 字 zì letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China HSK 1
汽车 汽車 qì chē car; automobile; bus HSK 1
听到 聽到 tīng dào to hear HSK 1
十 十 shí ten; 10 HSK 1
忙 忙 máng busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush HSK 1
今年 今年 jīn nián this year HSK 1
马上 馬上 mǎ shàng at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force) HSK 1
医生 醫生 yī shēng doctor HSK 1
大学 大學 Dà xué the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism HSK 1
出去 出去 chū qù to go out HSK 1
下午 下午 xià wǔ afternoon; p.m. HSK 1
电视 電視 diàn shì television; TV HSK 1
介绍 介紹 jiè shào to introduce (sb to sb); to give a presentation; to present (sb for a job etc); introduction HSK 1
那里 那裏 nà li there; that place HSK 1
哪里 哪裏 nǎ lǐ where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里 HSK 1
身体 身體 shēn tǐ the body; one's health; in person HSK 1
半 半 bàn half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half HSK 1
记得 記得 jì de to remember HSK 1
杯 杯 bēi cup; trophy cup; classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup HSK 1
口 口 kǒu mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls HSK 1
远 遠 yuǎn far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc) HSK 1
子 子 zǐ son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 位; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; sub- HSK 1
真的 真的 zhēn de really, truly, indeed HSK 1
先生 先生 xiān sheng teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor HSK 1
五 五 wǔ five; 5 HSK 1
书 書 Shū abbr. for 书经 HSK 1
晚 晚 wǎn evening; night; late HSK 1
昨天 昨天 zuó tiān yesterday HSK 1
回家 回家 huí jiā to return home HSK 1
跑 跑 páo (of an animal) to paw (the ground) HSK 1
哪 哪 nǎ how; which HSK 1