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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| 测量 測量 | survey; to measure; to gauge; to determine | |
| 进口 進口 | to import; imported; entrance; inlet (for the intake of air, water etc) | |
| 品质 品質 | character; intrinsic quality (of a person); quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc) | |
| 塑料 塑料 | plastics | |
| 失业 失業 | unemployment; to lose one's job | |
| 同情 同情 | to sympathize with; sympathy | |
| 秘书 秘書 | secretary | |
| 会计 會計 | accountant; accountancy; accounting | |
| 移民 移民 | to immigrate; to migrate; emigrant; immigrant | |
| 眼镜 眼鏡 | spectacles; eyeglasses | |
| 矮 矮 | low; short (in length) | |
| 大楼 大樓 | building (a relatively large, multistory one) | |
| 迟到 遲到 | to arrive late | |
| 反而 反而 | on the contrary; instead | |
| 叔叔 叔叔 | father's younger brother; uncle; Taiwan pr. [shú shu] | |
| 教训 教訓 | to provide guidance; to lecture sb; to upbraid; a talking-to; a bitter lesson | |
| 临时 臨時 | as the time draws near; at the last moment; temporary; interim; ad hoc | |
| 圆 圓 | circle; round; circular; spherical; (of the moon) full; unit of Chinese currency (yuan); tactful; to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie) | |
| 禁止 禁止 | to prohibit; to forbid; to ban | |
| 结构 結構 | structure; composition; makeup; architecture | |
| 肚子 肚子 | belly; abdomen; stomach | |
| 大会 大會 | general assembly; general meeting; convention | |
| 批 批 | to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges) | |
| 脱 脫 | to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from | |
| 企业 企業 | company; firm; enterprise; corporation | |
| 号码 號碼 | number | |
| 卷 卷 | to roll up; roll; classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc) | |
| 销售 銷售 | to sell; to market; sales (representative, agreement etc) | |
| 立即 立即 | immediately | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 替 替 | to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for | |
| 赢得 贏得 | to win; to gain | |
| 戴 戴 | to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support | |
| 切 切 | to cut; to slice; to carve; (math) tangential | |
| 手里 手裡 | in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands | |
| 既 既 | already; since; both... (and...) | |
| 提醒 提醒 | to remind; to call attention to; to warn of | |
| 货 貨 | goods; money; commodity | |
| 既然 既然 | since; as; this being the case | |
| 嗯 嗯 | (a groaning sound) | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 机构 機構 | mechanism; structure; organization; agency; institution | |
| 律师 律師 | lawyer | |
| 投 投 | to cast; to send; to throw oneself (into the river etc); to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of | |
| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 王 王 | king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great | |
| 不管 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 法律 法律 | law | |
| 严重 嚴重 | grave; serious; severe; critical | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several |