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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| 比赛 比賽 | competition (sports etc); match; to compete | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 难过 難過 | to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult | Xiehouyu |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 姐夫 姐夫 | (coll.) older sister's husband | Colloquialism |
| 带子 帶子 | belt; band; ribbon; strap; girdle; (coll.) audio or video tape; Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri); comb pen shell (Atrina pectinata) | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 好时 好時 | Hershey's (brand) | Proper Noun |
| 卡拉 卡拉 | Kara, city in northern Togo; Cara, Karla etc (name) | Proper Noun |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 一只 一隻 | one (measure word for animals, boats, certain objects); a single ... | |
| 大公司 大公司 | large company; corporation | |
| 一排 一排 | row | |
| 装潢 裝潢 | to mount (a picture); to dress; to adorn; decoration; packaging | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 办好 辦好 | to take care of (a matter); to get (a task) done; to handle (a project) expeditiously | |
| 年轻人 年輕人 | young people; youngster | |
| 黄花闺女 黃花閨女 | maiden; virgin | |
| 大块头 大塊頭 | heavy man; fat man; lunkhead; lummox; lug | |
| 买房 買房 | to buy a house | |
| 靶场 靶場 | shooting range; range | |
| 黑人 黑人 | black person; an illegal | |
| 个数 個數 | number of items or individuals | |
| 小孩子 小孩子 | child | |
| 一遍 一遍 | one time (all the way through); once through | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 给面子 給面子 | to show deference or praise publicly | |
| 什么地方 什麼地方 | somewhere; someplace; where | |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem |