The Mermaid 1965
鱼美人
A Huangmei opera produced by Shaw Brothers about a carp spirit who transforms into an identical copy of a beautiful woman to win the heart of a lonely male scholar.
Vocabulary
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| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 庆 慶 | congratulate, celebrate | |
| 自有 自有 | (I, they etc) of course have (a plan, a way etc); one's own (apartment, brand etc) | |
| 闯入 闖入 | to intrude; to charge in; to gate-crash | |
| 私 私 | private, personal; secret | |
| 何在 何在 | where?; what place? | |
| 远道而来 遠道而來 | to come from far away | |
| 圣人 聖人 | sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty; (religion) saint | |
| 永生 永生 | to live forever; eternal life; all one's life | |
| 春色 春色 | colors of spring; spring scenery | |
| 粽叶 粽葉 | leaf (usually bamboo or reed leaf) used to wrap sticky rice dumplings | |
| 恋 戀 | love; long for, yearn for; love | |
| 泛 氾 | to drift, float; careless, reckless | |
| 落叶 落葉 | dead leaves; to lose leaves (of plants); deciduous | |
| 公子 公子 | son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific) | |
| 思量 思量 | to reckon; to consider; to turn over in one's mind | |
| 书案 書案 | writing desk; official record | |
| 沉沉 沉沉 | deeply; heavily | |
| 本应 本應 | should have; ought to have | |
| 羽 羽 | feather, plume; wings; rad. 124 | |
| 梦境 夢境 | dreamland | |
| 寒士 寒士 | (old) impoverished scholar | |
| 相聚 相聚 | to meet together; to assemble | |
| 永 永 | long, perpetual, eternal, forever | |
| 寒 寒 | cold, wintry, chilly | |
| 一轮 一輪 | first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc) | |
| 如花 如花 | flowery | |
| 含苞 含苞 | (of a plant) to be in bud | |
| 折腰 折腰 | to bend at the waist; to bow; (fig.) to bow to; to submit | |
| 无瑕 無瑕 | faultless; perfect | |
| 梅 梅 | plums; prunes; surname | |
| 什么人 什麼人 | what kind of person | |
| 官宦 官宦 | functionary; official | |
| 倒替 倒替 | to take turns (responsibility); to replace | |
| 洗脱 洗脫 | to cleanse; to purge; to wash away | |
| 御 御 | drive, ride; chariot; manage | |
| 单行 單行 | to come individually; to treat separately; separate edition; one-way traffic | |
| 效 俲 | result, effect; effectiveness | |
| 宁 寧 | calm, peaceful, serene; healthy | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 救兵 救兵 | relief troops; reinforcements | |
| 抱不平 抱不平 | to be outraged by an injustice (done to sb else) | |
| 劳 勞 | labor, toil, do manual work | |
| 休怪 休怪 | don't blame (sb) | |
| 寄居 寄居 | to live away from home | |
| 断案 斷案 | to judge a case | |
| 失言 失言 | slip of the tongue; indiscretion; to blurt out a secret | |
| 见谅 見諒 | please forgive me | |
| 此话怎讲 此話怎講 | How do you mean?; How could that be the case?; How so? |