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.
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Vocabulary
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| 也 也 | (adverb) also; both ... and ... (before predicates only); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊 | |
| 会 會 | can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [huǐ]) | |
| 一 一 | one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit | |
| 好 好 | good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello | |
| 说 說 | to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine | |
| 我们 我們 | we; us; ourselves; our | |
| 人 人 | person; people | |
| 要 要 | (bound form) to demand; to coerce | |
| 个 個 | (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual | |
| 和 咊 | (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [hàn]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japanese | |
| 就 就 | (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 着) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (pattern: 就 ... 也 ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不 ... 就 ...) if not ... then must be ... | |
| 这 這 | (pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhèi], esp. in Beijing) | |
| 他 他 | he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant); (used before sb's name for emphasis); (used as a meaningless mock object); (literary) other | |
| 不 不 | no; not so; (bound form) not; un- | |
| 有 有 | to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 意 intentional) | |
| 你 你 | you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您) | |
| 在 在 | to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) | |
| 是 是 | to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion) | |
| 我 我 | I; me; my | |
| 了 了 | (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) | |
| 的 的 | really and truly | |
| 嗻 嗻 | (old) aye aye! | Rare |
| 俶 俶 | to begin | Rare |
| 阿 阿 | abbr. for country names that begin with: Algeria, Afghanistan etc | Interjection |
| 哟 喲 | Oh! (interjection indicating slight surprise); also pr. [yao1] | Interjection |
| 嘿嘿 嘿嘿 | (onom.) he he; mischievous laughter | Interjection |
| 喽 嘍 | (bound form) subordinates in a gang of bandits | Interjection |
| 呵呵 呵呵 | (onom.) gentle laughter; chuckle | Interjection |
| 呗 唄 | (bound form) to chant (from Sanskrit "pāṭhaka") | Interjection |
| 呃 呃 | (exclamation); to hiccup | Interjection |
| 嘞 嘞 | (Cant.) final particle used for polite refusal | Interjection |
| 嗷 嗷 | loud clamor; the sound of wailing | Onomatopoeia |
| 呜 嗚 | (onom.) for humming or whimpering | Interjection |
| 噢 噢 | oh; ah (used to indicate realization); also pr. [ou4] | Interjection |
| 咧 咧 | used in; used in; used in | Interjection |