The Mirror and the Lichee 1967
新陈三五娘
Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It’s a tragic love story between the scholar and a local beauty (played by Fang Ying). He polishes mirrors as a pretext to get closer to his love, who signals her approval by tossing him a bunch of lichees. From that point on the course of true love proves operatically rocky, complete with murder and suicide.
Vocabulary
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| 逃走 逃走 | to escape; to flee; to run away | |
| 歇 歇 | to rest; to take a break; to stop; to halt; (dialect) to sleep; a moment; a short while | |
| 怨 怨 | to blame; (bound form) resentment; hatred; grudge | |
| 桃 桃 | peach | |
| 肠 腸 | intestines | |
| 盆 盆 | basin; flower pot; unit of volume equal to 12 斗 and 8 升, approx 128 liters | |
| 城里 城裡 | In the city | |
| 闲 閒 | idle; unoccupied; leisure | |
| 看待 看待 | to look upon; to regard | |
| 糟 糟 | dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined | |
| 赔 賠 | to compensate for loss; to indemnify; to suffer a financial loss | |
| 难得 難得 | seldom; rare; hard to come by | |
| 犹豫 猶豫 | to hesitate | |
| 朵 朵 | flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc | |
| 闯 闖 | to rush; to charge; to dash; to break through; to temper oneself (through battling hardships) | |
| 依旧 依舊 | as before; still | |
| 决不 決不 | not at all; simply (can) not | |
| 也好 也好 | that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ... | |
| 大胆 大膽 | brazen; audacious; outrageous; bold; daring; fearless | |
| 一向 一向 | always (previously); a period of time in the recent past | |
| 伸 伸 | to stretch; to extend | |
| 倒是 倒是 | contrary to what one might expect; actually; contrariwise; why don't you | |
| 脾气 脾氣 | character; temperament; disposition; bad temper | |
| 赔偿 賠償 | to compensate | |
| 不许 不許 | not to allow; must not; can't | |
| 冻 凍 | to freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly | |
| 提起 提起 | to mention; to speak of; to lift; to pick up; to arouse; to raise (a topic, a heavy weight, one's fist, one's spirits etc) | |
| 丑 丑 | clown; 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox; ancient Chinese compass point: 30° | |
| 分离 分離 | to separate | |
| 劝 勸 | to advise; to urge; to try to persuade; to exhort; to console; to soothe | |
| 得了 得了 | all right!; that's enough! | |
| 看出 看出 | to make out; to see | |
| 认 認 | to recognize; to know; to admit | |
| 尝 嘗 | to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once | |
| 今日 今日 | today | |
| 回报 回報 | (in) return; reciprocation; payback; retaliation; to report back; to reciprocate | |
| 厨房 廚房 | kitchen | |
| 甲 甲 | first of the ten Heavenly Stems 干; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 甲 system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75° | |
| 当年 當年 | in those days; then; in those years; during that time | |
| 一句话 一句話 | in a word; in short | |
| 之下 之下 | under; beneath; less than | |
| 回头 回頭 | to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by | |
| 稍 稍 | somewhat; a little | |
| 必 必 | certainly; must; will; necessarily | |
| 礼 禮 | gift; rite; ceremony; propriety; etiquette; courtesy | |
| 烂 爛 | soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad | |
| 冒 冐 | to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover | |
| 躲 躲 | to hide; to dodge; to avoid | |
| 凭 憑 | to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof | |
| 真相 真相 | the truth about sth; the actual facts |