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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| 梅花 梅花 | plum blossom; clubs ♣ (a suit in card games); wintersweet (dialect) | |
| 斯文 斯文 | refined; educate; cultured; intellectual; polite; gentle | |
| 遍地 遍地 | everywhere; all over | |
| 无边 無邊 | without boundary; not bordered | |
| 为首 為首 | head; be headed by | |
| 挨打 挨打 | to take a beating; to get thrashed; to come under attack | |
| 日夜 日夜 | day and night; around the clock | |
| 要好 要好 | to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement | |
| 仰 仰 | to face upward; to look up; to admire; to rely on | |
| 盼望 盼望 | to hope for; to look forward to | |
| 书房 書房 | study (room); studio | |
| 奏 奏 | to play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old) | |
| 巧妙 巧妙 | ingenious; clever; ingenuity; artifice | |
| 黑夜 黑夜 | night | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 不便 不便 | inconvenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; short of cash | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 枝 枝 | branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc | |
| 懒 懶 | lazy | |
| 渡 渡 | to cross; to pass through; to ferry | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 一同 一同 | together | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 查出 查出 | to find out; to discover | |
| 景 景 | (bound form) scenery; circumstance; situation; scene (of a play); (literary) sunlight | |
| 债 債 | debt | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role | |
| 箭 箭 | arrow | |
| 误 誤 | mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly | |
| 前来 前來 | to come (formal); before; previously | |
| 虽 雖 | although; even though | |
| 妙 妙 | clever; wonderful | |
| 救命 救命 | to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me! | |
| 天下 天下 | land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule | |
| 牵 牽 | to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve; to draw in | |
| 罢了 罷了 | a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much) | |
| 一番 一番 | Some | |
| 一时 一時 | a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time | |
| 判 判 | to judge; to sentence; to discriminate; to discern; clearly distinguishable | |
| 当作 當作 | to treat as; to regard as | |
| 章 章 | chapter; section; clause; movement (of symphony); seal; badge; regulation; order | |
| 蒙 濛 | drizzle; mist | |
| 精 精 | essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) | |
| 煮 煑 | to cook; to boil | |
| 形 形 | to appear; to look; form; shape | |
| 侧 側 | the side; to incline towards; to lean; inclined; lateral; side | |
| 除 除 | to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 母 母 | mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly |