The Happy Trio 1975
双星伴月
Following the lives of three downtrodden but resilient outcasts, John Lo Mar's gritty social drama paints a sense of realism rarely seen in Hon Kong movies. Li Ching - the best actress of her era - play Ah Chiao is a girl from a rural village stranded in the city, who befriends a kind-hearted transient and a retired actor. They are poor, but they are happy. Although her fortune changes for the better when she becomes a singer, she ultimately learns money can't buy happiness.
Vocabulary
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| 锁 鎖 | to lock; to lock up; a lock | |
| 只不过 只不過 | only; merely; nothing but; no more than; it's just that ... | |
| 硬 硬 | hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial | |
| 醉 醉 | intoxicated | |
| 烂 爛 | soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad | |
| 欣赏 欣賞 | to appreciate; to enjoy; to admire | |
| 凭 憑 | to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof | |
| 签 籤 | inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag | |
| 暂时 暫時 | temporary; provisional; for the time being | |
| 屋 屋 | (bound form) house; (bound form) room | |
| 毒 毒 | poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics | |
| 可怜 可憐 | pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on | |
| 骗 騙 | to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over | |
| 聪明 聰明 | intelligent; clever; bright; smart; acute (of sight and hearing) | |
| 吓 嚇 | to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) | |
| 戏 戲 | trick; drama; play; show | |
| 恨 恨 | to hate; to regret | |
| 建筑 建築 | to construct; building | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 疯 瘋 | insane; mad; wild | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 傻 傻 | foolish | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 至 至 | to arrive; most; to; until | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 跑江湖 跑江湖 | to make a living as a traveling performer etc | Xiehouyu |
| 寒酸 寒酸 | wretched; poverty-stricken; unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc) | Xiehouyu |
| 聊天 聊天 | to chat; to gossip | Xiehouyu |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 戴安娜 戴安娜 | Diana (name) | Proper Noun |
| 诸葛亮 諸葛亮 | Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period; the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms, where he is portrayed as a sage an | Proper Noun |
| 弯弯 彎彎 | Wan Wan (1981-), Taiwanese blogger and cartoonist | Proper Noun |
| 河池 河池 | Hechi, prefecture-level city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region | Proper Noun |
| 猴儿 猴兒 | monkey (affectionate) | Proper Noun |
| 青山 青山 | Qingshan district of Wuhan city, Hubei; Qingshan district of Baotou city, Inner Mongolia | Proper Noun |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 膏药 膏藥 | herbal plaster applied to a wound | |
| 散工 散工 | day labor; piece-time work | |
| 坐牢 坐牢 | to be imprisoned | |
| 峰 峯 | peak, summit; hump of camel | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 怎么能 怎麼能 | how could one | |
| 金色 金色 | golden; gold (color) | |
| 梦境 夢境 | dreamland | |
| 警察局 警察局 | police station; police department; police headquarters | |
| 屁 屁 | break wind; fart; buttocks |