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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| 只有 只有 | only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | |
| 由 由 | to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 每 每 | each; every | |
| 内 內 | inside; inner; internal; within; interior | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 已 已 | already; to stop; then; afterwards | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 千里迢迢 千里迢迢 | (idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar | Idiom |
| 九霄云外 九霄雲外 | beyond the topmost clouds (idiom); unimaginably far away | Idiom |
| 女大不中留 女大不中留 | when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom) | Idiom |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 难当 難當 | hard to endure (hot weather, itchiness etc) | Xiehouyu |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 南海 南海 | South China Sea | Proper Noun |
| 上元节 上元節 | Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar | Proper Noun |
| 万年 萬年 | Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 天河 天河 | Milky Way; Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong | Proper Noun |
| 开封 開封 | Kaifeng, prefecture-level city in Henan Province | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 从今以后 從今以後 | from now on; henceforward | |
| 府 府 | prefecture; prefect; government | |
| 鲤鱼 鯉魚 | carp | |
| 波 波 | waves, breakers; undulations | |
| 老夫 老夫 | I (spoken by an old man) | |
| 千年 千年 | millennium | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 二更 二更 | second of the five night watch periods 21:00-23:00 (old) | |
| 夫 夫 | man, male adult, husband; those | |
| 身 身 | body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 | |
| 实 實 | real, true; honest, sincere | |
| 花灯 花燈 | colored lantern (used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节) | |
| 道行 道行 | skills acquired through religious practice; (fig.) ability; skill; Taiwan pr. [dao4 hang5] | |
| 只怕 只怕 | I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe; very likely | |
| 备 備 | prepare, ready, perfect | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 谁知 誰知 | who would have thought; unexpectedly | |
| 家道 家道 | family financial circumstances | |
| 又来了 又來了 | Here we go again. | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 不得 不得 | must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot |