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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| 时时 時時 | often; constantly | |
| 内外 內外 | inside and outside; domestic and foreign; approximately; about | |
| 母女 母女 | mother and daughter; mother-daughter | |
| 要好 要好 | to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement | |
| 书房 書房 | study (room); studio | |
| 来往 來往 | to come and go; to have dealings with; to be in relation with | |
| 黑夜 黑夜 | night | |
| 特地 特地 | specially; for a special purpose | |
| 不便 不便 | inconvenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; short of cash | |
| 不至于 不至於 | unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 壶 壺 | pot; classifier for bottled liquid | |
| 枝 枝 | branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 片刻 片刻 | short period of time; a moment | |
| 牢 牢 | firm; sturdy; fold (for animals); sacrifice; prison | |
| 赖 賴 | to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on | |
| 挨 挨 | in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to | |
| 难忘 難忘 | unforgettable | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 实践 實踐 | practice; to put into practice; to live up to (a promise); to carry out (a project) | |
| 园 園 | land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 园, such as a botanical garden 植物园, kindergarten 幼儿园 etc | |
| 此事 此事 | this matter | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 磨 磨 | to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist | |
| 前来 前來 | to come (formal); before; previously | |
| 虽 雖 | although; even though | |
| 仿佛 彷彿 | to seem; as if; alike; similar | |
| 路过 路過 | to pass by or through | |
| 捡 撿 | to pick up; to collect; to gather | |
| 狠 狠 | ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 一番 一番 | Some | |
| 钻 鑽 | to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain | |
| 一时 一時 | a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time | |
| 当作 當作 | to treat as; to regard as | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 档 檔 | official records; grade (of goods); file; records; shelves; slot; gap; crosspiece; classifier for crosspieces; classifier for events, affairs etc; Taiwan pr. [dǎng] | |
| 蒙 濛 | drizzle; mist | |
| 妇女 婦女 | woman | |
| 原谅 原諒 | to excuse; to forgive; to pardon | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions |