The Silent Love 1971
哑巴与新娘
Ivy Ling Po gives a startling performance as an abused wife who suffers through all his adulterous and treacherous ways in The Silent Love, which became an allegorical, tragic love story that reflected the unspoken truths inherent in Chinese society. Lead actor Chin Feng received the 1971 Golden Horse Outstanding Performance award for his portrayal as The Mute, a man that secretly loves Ivy and does all he can to make her life better, except that it backfires on him.
Vocabulary
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| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 使 使 | to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 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") | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 关系 關係 | relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 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}) | |
| 小家子气 小家子氣 | petty; small-minded | Idiom |
| 风吹草动 風吹草動 | lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom); fig. the slightest whiff of trouble | Idiom |
| 不要脸 不要臉 | to have no sense of shame; shameless | Xiehouyu |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 倒楣 倒楣 | variant of | |
| 吃完 吃完 | to finish eating | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 实 實 | real, true; honest, sincere | |
| 通奸 通姦 | adultery; to commit adultery | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 红颜 紅顏 | a beautiful woman; young beauties; youths; rosy cheeks | |
| 两句 兩句 | (say) a few words | |
| 不满意 不滿意 | dissatisfied | |
| 没有意思 沒有意思 | boring; of no interest | |
| 小猫 小貓 | kitten | |
| 留给 留給 | to set aside for | |
| 一只 一隻 | one (measure word for animals, boats, certain objects); a single ... | |
| 小鸟 小鳥 | small bird; young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick); (fig.) penis (kiddie term); (golf) birdie | |
| 气人 氣人 | to anger; to annoy | |
| 狗男女 狗男女 | a couple engaged in an illicit love affair; a cheating couple | |
| 得很 得很 | (after an adjective) very | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 谢意 謝意 | gratitude; thanks | |
| 再发 再發 | to reissue; (of a disease) to recur; (of a patient) to suffer a relapse | |
| 不像话 不像話 | unreasonable; shocking; outrageous | |
| 拿出 拿出 | to take out; to put out; to provide; to put forward (a proposal); to come up with (evidence) | |
| 站住 站住 | to stand | |
| 里头 裡頭 | inside; interior | |
| 快要 快要 | nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth) | |
| 从小 從小 | from childhood; from a young age | |
| 商量 商量 | to consult; to talk over; to discuss | |
| 半夜 半夜 | midnight; in the middle of the night | |
| 笑话 笑話 | joke; jest; to laugh at; to mock | |
| 太太 太太 | married woman; Mrs.; Madam; wife |