The Silent Love

The Silent Love 1971

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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.

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Vocabulary

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ràng to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) HSK 2
kuài unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
dòng motionless Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
qi you're welcome; don't mention it; impolite; rude; blunt Xiehouyu HSK 1
méi guān xi it doesn't matter Xiehouyu HSK 1
duì bu I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint Xiehouyu HSK 1
gān dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder Xiehouyu HSK 1
zhēn shi indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
huì improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
hǎo bu hǎo (coll.) all right?; OK? Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
(coll.) to take a taxi; to go by taxi Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kàn kan to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
chī de (coll.) food Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kuài r erhua variant of 一块; a piece; a chunk; (coll.) one yuan; one dollar Colloquialism HSK 1
ba (coll.) father; dad Colloquialism HSK 1
(coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 1
(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) Colloquialism HSK 1
Lǎo Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Diǎn diǎn Diandian (Chinese microblogging and social networking website) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
shéi zhī dào God knows...; Who would have imagined...? ∼HSK 1
zhè shì this is; this is the ... ∼HSK 1
shào nǎi nai young lady of the house; wife of the young master ∼HSK 1
kuài diǎn to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! ∼HSK 1
néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
de (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking ∼HSK 1
first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) ∼HSK 1
ge that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler ∼HSK 1
(slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! ∼HSK 1
diǎn a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia ∼HSK 1
de (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
hǎo no good ∼HSK 1
yuǎn mén (to go to) distant parts; faraway; a distant relative ∼HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
méi shì it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) ∼HSK 1
cannot; should not; must not ∼HSK 1
zhè jiù immediately; at once ∼HSK 1
shuō hǎo to come to an agreement; to complete negotiations ∼HSK 1
kāi fàn to serve a meal ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
dōng jiā master (i.e. employer); landlord; boss ∼HSK 1
měi tiān every day ∼HSK 1
xiǎng unexpectedly; to one's surprise ∼HSK 1
hǎo hello; hi ∼HSK 1
èr tiān next day; the morrow ∼HSK 1
zěn me huí shì what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? ∼HSK 1
kuài jìn fast-forward (media player) ∼HSK 1
zhù (verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc); repeatedly; continuously; constantly ∼HSK 1