The Adulteress 1963
杨乃武与小白菜
The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the waning days of the Ching Dynasty. To make matters worse, she’s soon framed for her husband’s murder by her rapist - the son of the local magistrate! And even that isn’t the end of her woes. It’s best to have a box of tissues nearby as two expert directors ratchet up the emotional suspense in this consummate tearjerker.
Vocabulary
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| 巧 巧 | opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely | |
| 春 旾 | spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life | |
| 夏 夏 | summer | |
| 功夫 功夫 | skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort | |
| 主意 主意 | plan; idea; decision; Beijing pr. [zhú yi] | |
| 否认 否認 | to declare to be untrue; to deny | |
| 应当 應當 | should; ought to | |
| 才能 才能 | talent; ability; capacity | |
| 只好 只好 | to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to | |
| 看起来 看起來 | seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appear to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be | |
| 当初 當初 | at that time; originally | |
| 福 福 | good fortune; happiness; luck | |
| 赶快 趕快 | quickly; at once | |
| 将来 將來 | in the future; future; the future | |
| 羊 羊 | sheep; goat | |
| 伤心 傷心 | to grieve; to be broken-hearted; to feel deeply hurt | |
| 念 唸 | to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; to give (sb) a tongue-lashing; to miss (sb); idea; remembrance; twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿) | |
| 土 土 | earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 | |
| 亲自 親自 | personally; in person; oneself | |
| 女子 女子 | woman; female | |
| 自从 自從 | since (a time); ever since | |
| 恐怕 恐怕 | fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe | |
| 游 遊 | to walk; to tour; to roam; to travel | |
| 桥 橋 | bridge | |
| 存 存 | to exist; to deposit; to store; to keep; to survive | |
| 生意 生意 | life force; vitality | |
| 不必 不必 | need not; does not have to; not necessarily | |
| 赶紧 趕緊 | hurriedly; without delay | |
| 文章 文章 | article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning | |
| 初 初 | at first; (at the) beginning; first; junior; basic | |
| 困 困 | to trap; to surround; hard-pressed; stranded; destitute | |
| 升 升 | to ascend; to rise to the rank of; to promote; to hoist; liter; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗 | |
| 证据 證據 | evidence; proof; testimony | |
| 退 退 | to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline | |
| 简直 簡直 | simply; really | |
| 板 板 | board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious | |
| 千万 千萬 | ten million; countless; many; one must by all means | |
| 断 斷 | to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly | |
| 奇怪 奇怪 | strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled | |
| 大概 大概 | roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea | |
| 证 証 | to admonish; variant of 证 | |
| 保 保 | Bulgaria; Bulgarian; abbr. for 保加利亚 | |
| 配 配 | to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate | |
| 麻烦 麻煩 | trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble | |
| 姑娘 姑娘 | girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old) | |
| 代 代 | to substitute; to act on behalf of others; to replace; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon | |
| 皮 皮 | leather; skin; fur; pico- (one trillionth); naughty | |
| 按照 按照 | according to; in accordance with; in the light of; on the basis of | |
| 传 傳 | to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity) | |
| 刀 刀 | surname Dao |