The Forbidden Past 1976
小楼残梦
In the sixties, love stories portrayed women as sentimentalists or sacrificial lambs. Later on, directors like Chu Yuan replaced these themes of sacrifice with abandonment. The Forbidden Past is a heart tugging, rare Chinese Christmas story about a bar girl (Ching Li) serving drinks to a man that looks like her husband from five years ago. She convinces him to fulfill her son's wishes of having the father he's never seen, show up for Christmas.
Vocabulary
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| 故事 故事 | old practice | |
| 银行 銀行 | bank | |
| 停 停 | to stop; to halt; to park (a car) | |
| 清楚 清楚 | clear; distinct; to understand thoroughly; to be clear about | |
| 往 往 | to go (in a direction); to; towards; (of a train) bound for; past; previous | |
| 感谢 感謝 | (express) thanks; gratitude; grateful; thankful; thanks | |
| 想到 想到 | to think of; to call to mind; to anticipate | |
| 刚刚 剛剛 | just recently; just a moment ago | |
| 家庭 家庭 | family; household | |
| 过来 過來 | to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of | |
| 段 段 | paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc | |
| 快乐 快樂 | happy; joyful | |
| 靠 靠 | to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old) | |
| 换 換 | to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency) | |
| 最近 最近 | recently; soon; nearest | |
| 份 份 | classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分 | |
| 面 面 | face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc | |
| 也许 也許 | perhaps; maybe | |
| 永远 永遠 | forever; eternal | |
| 句 句 | sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse | |
| 以为 以為 | to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.) | |
| 片 片 | disk; sheet | |
| 离开 離開 | to depart; to leave | |
| 万 万 | used in 俟 | |
| 讲 講 | to speak; to explain; to negotiate; to emphasize; to be particular about; as far as sth is concerned; speech; lecture | |
| 改变 改變 | to change; to alter; to transform | |
| 真正 真正 | genuine; real; true; really; indeed | |
| 办法 辦法 | means; method; way (of doing sth) | |
| 以前 以前 | before; formerly; previous; ago | |
| 帮助 幫助 | assistance; aid; to help; to assist | |
| 求 求 | to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech | |
| 能够 能夠 | to be capable of; to be able to; can | |
| 道 道 | road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division) | |
| 有人 有人 | someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom) | |
| 只要 只要 | if only; so long as | |
| 虽然 雖然 | although; even though (often used correlatively with 是 or 是 etc) | |
| 刚 剛 | hard; firm; strong; just; barely; exactly | |
| 相信 相信 | to be convinced (that sth is true); to believe; to accept sth as true | |
| 信 信 | letter; mail; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random | |
| 以后 以後 | after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future | |
| 可是 可是 | but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed | |
| 完 完 | to finish; to be over; whole; complete; entire | |
| 完全 完全 | complete; whole; totally; entirely | |
| 不错 不錯 | correct; right; not bad; pretty good | |
| 结果 結果 | to bear fruit | |
| 过去 過去 | (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by | |
| 周 周 | to make a circuit; to circle; circle; circumference; lap; cycle; complete; all; all over; thorough; to help financially | |
| 见到 見到 | to see | |
| 为什么 為什麼 | why?; for what reason? | |
| 件 件 | item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc |