The Golden Era 2014
黄金时代
The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influence and escape from China during World War II.
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Vocabulary
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| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 老伯 老伯 | uncle (polite form of address for older male) | |
| 检疫 檢疫 | quarantine | |
| 姨娘 姨娘 | maternal aunt; father's concubine (old) | |
| 除掉 除掉 | to eliminate | |
| 肉丸 肉丸 | meatball | |
| 辞行 辭行 | to say goodbye; leave-taking; farewells | |
| 文坛 文壇 | literary circles | |
| 淅沥 淅瀝 | (onom.) patter of rain | |
| 积木 積木 | toy building blocks | |
| 患难 患難 | trials and tribulations | |
| 肺结核 肺結核 | tuberculosis; TB | |
| 地主家庭 地主家庭 | land-owning household | |
| 病逝 病逝 | to die of illness | |
| 享年 享年 | to live to the (ripe) age of | |
| 疏远 疏遠 | to drift apart; to become estranged; to alienate; estrangement | |
| 憎恶 憎惡 | to hate evil | |
| 私奔 私奔 | to elope | |
| 声名狼藉 聲名狼藉 | to have a bad reputation | |
| 落魄 落魄 | down and out; in dire straits; unrestrained; unconventional; also pr. [luo4 tuo4] | |
| 帘幕 簾幕 | hanging screen; curtain over shop door (for privacy and serving as advertisement) | |
| 畅快 暢快 | carefree | |
| 不去理 不去理 | not to pay attention to; to leave sth as it is; to ignore | |
| 漂流 漂流 | to float on the current; to drift along or about; rafting | |
| 未婚夫 未婚夫 | fiancé | |
| 杳无音讯 杳無音訊 | 杳: obscure, dark, mysterious, deep · 无: negative, no, not; KangXi radical 71 · 音: sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation · 讯: inquire; ask; examine; reproach | |
| 抵债 抵債 | to repay a debt in kind or by labor | |
| 临危 臨危 | dying (from illness); facing death; on one's deathbed | |
| 女同胞 女同胞 | woman; female; female compatriot | |
| 惊愕 驚愕 | (literary) stunned; stupefied | |
| 搭救 搭救 | to rescue | |
| 铺盖 鋪蓋 | to spread evenly over | |
| 当铺 當鋪 | pawnshop | |
| 赎回 贖回 | to redeem | |
| 洋车 洋車 | rickshaw | |
| 烤火 烤火 | to warm oneself at a fire | |
| 赐予 賜予 | to grant; to bestow | |
| 俄文 俄文 | Russian language | |
| 党外人士 黨外人士 | non-party members | |
| 奔走 奔走 | to run; to rush about; to be on the go | |
| 麻雀 麻雀 | sparrow; (dialect) mahjong | |
| 罗圈腿 羅圈腿 | bow-legged; bandy-legged | |
| 童谣 童謠 | nursery rhyme | |
| 旗子 旗子 | flag; banner | |
| 迷茫 迷茫 | vast and indistinct; perplexed; bewildered; at a loss | |
| 仓皇 倉皇 | in a panic; flurried | |
| 租界 租界 | foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries) | |
| 炮轰 炮轟 | to bombard; to bomb; (fig.) to criticize; to roast | |
| 文学家 文學家 | writer; man of letters | |
| 憧憬 憧憬 | to long for; to look forward to |