The Dream Factory 1997
甲方乙方
Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 亏得 虧得 | fortunately; luckily; (sarcastic) fancy that, how fortunate! | |
| 帐 帳 | tent; account | |
| 减缓 減緩 | to slow down; to retard | |
| 涉 涉 | ford stream, wade across | |
| 空泛 空泛 | vague and general; not specific; shallow; empty | |
| 糟践 糟踐 | to waste; to spoil; to destroy; to insult grievously | |
| 侃 侃 | upright and strong; amiable | |
| 鼓起 鼓起 | to summon one's (courage, faith etc); to puff up (one's cheeks etc); to bulge; to swell out | |
| 诚 誠 | (bound form) sincere; authentic; (literary) really; truly | |
| 甲乙 甲乙 | first two of the ten Heavenly Stems | |
| 自然灾害 自然災害 | natural disaster | |
| 瞧见 瞧見 | to see | |
| 驰 馳 | go quickly or swiftly; hurry | |
| 俺 俺 | I, me (northern dialect) | |
| 怎 怎 | how (variant of 怎么) | |
| 匪 匪 | bandits, robbers, gangsters | |
| 义演 義演 | benefit performance; charity show | |
| 拓 拓 | expand; open up; support or push | |
| 上辈子 上輩子 | one's ancestors; past generations; a former incarnation | |
| 深明大义 深明大義 | to have a high notion of one's duty; to be highly principled | |
| 凭什么 憑什麼 | (spoken) why?; for which reason? | |
| 喝醉 喝醉 | to get drunk | |
| 射手 射手 | archer; shooter; marksman; (football etc) striker | |
| 错漏 錯漏 | error and negligence | |
| 大熊猫 大熊貓 | giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) | |
| 元旦 元旦 | New Year's Day | |
| 年前 年前 | by the end of the year; at the end of the year; shortly before New Year | |
| 协议书 協議書 | contract; protocol | |
| 文艺 文藝 | literature and art | |
| 治理 治理 | to govern; to administer; to manage; to control; governance | |
| 山区 山區 | mountain area | |
| 灾 災 | disaster; calamity | |
| 一身 一身 | whole body; from head to toe; single person; a suit of clothes | |
| 消费者 消費者 | consumer | |
| 人力 人力 | manpower; labor power | |
| 歇 歇 | to rest; to take a break; to stop; to halt; (dialect) to sleep; a moment; a short while | |
| 再也 再也 | (not) any more | |
| 一带 一帶 | region; district | |
| 葡萄 葡萄 | grape | |
| 礼貌 禮貌 | courtesy; politeness; manners; courteous; polite | |
| 终止 終止 | to stop; to terminate | |
| 视为 視為 | to view as; to see as; to consider to be; to deem | |
| 如下 如下 | as follows | |
| 沙漠 沙漠 | desert | |
| 胆 膽 | gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) | |
| 处罚 處罰 | to penalize; to punish | |
| 人间 人間 | the human world; the earth | |
| 真理 真理 | truth | |
| 闲 閒 | idle; unoccupied; leisure | |
| 签字 簽字 | to sign (one's name); signature |