The Lark 1965
小云雀
A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career.
Vocabulary
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| 拜拜 拜拜 | (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) | Colloquialism |
| 戴高帽子 戴高帽子 | (coll.) to be the object of flattery; to be placed on a pedestal | Colloquialism |
| 修理 修理 | to repair; to fix; to prune; to trim; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 南洋 南洋 | Southeast Asia; South seas | Proper Noun |
| 天宫 天宮 | Temple in Heaven (e.g. of the Jade Emperor); Tiangong, Chinese space station program | Proper Noun |
| 多利 多利 | Dolly (1996-2003), female sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell | Proper Noun |
| 青山 青山 | Qingshan district of Wuhan city, Hubei; Qingshan district of Baotou city, Inner Mongolia | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 曼谷 曼谷 | Bangkok, capital of Thailand | Proper Noun |
| 金星 金星 | Venus / Taibai Jinxing | Proper Noun |
| 福尔摩斯 福爾摩斯 | Sherlock Holmes | Proper Noun |
| 陈厚 陳厚 | Peter Chen Ho (1931-1970), Chinese actor | Proper Noun |
| 吉隆坡 吉隆坡 | Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia | Proper Noun |
| 佛寺 佛寺 | Buddhist temple | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 曹 曹 | ministry officials; surname | |
| 施 施 | grant, bestow; give; act; name | |
| 泰 泰 | great, exalted, superior; big | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 社长 社長 | president or director (of association etc) | |
| 什么人 什麼人 | what kind of person | |
| 怎么能 怎麼能 | how could one | |
| 郎 郎 | gentleman, young man; husband | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 苦寒 苦寒 | bitter cold | |
| 四方 四方 | four-way; four-sided; in all directions; everywhere | |
| 赏脸 賞臉 | (polite) do me the honor | |
| 昨夜 昨夜 | last night | |
| 梦中 夢中 | in a dream | |
| 冠 冠 | cap, crown, headgear | |
| 外型 外型 | external form | |
| 荷 荷 | lotus, water lily, holland | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 而今 而今 | now; at the present (time) | |
| 瓜果 瓜果 | fruit (plural sense); melons and fruit | |
| 多方 多方 | in many ways; from all sides | |
| 徐 徐 | slowly, quietly, calmly; composed, dignified | |
| 赏光 賞光 | to do sb the honor (of attending etc); to put in an appearance; to show up | |
| 慢点儿 慢點兒 | slow down a bit | |
| 见怪 見怪 | to mind; to take offense | |
| 比方说 比方說 | for example; for instance | |
| 稿 稾 | draft, manuscript, rough copy | |
| 预支 預支 | to pay in advance; to get payment in advance | |
| 含苞 含苞 | (of a plant) to be in bud | |
| 荡 蕩 | pond, pool; wash away, cleanse | |
| 今夜 今夜 | tonight | |
| 算法 算法 | arithmetic; algorithm; method of calculation |