The Yellow Muffler 1972
玉女嬉春
Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history....
Vocabulary
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| 老爷爷 老爺爺 | (coll.) father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather | Colloquialism |
| 感冒 感冒 | to catch cold; (common) cold; (coll.) to be interested in (often used in the negative); (Tw) to detest; can't stand | Colloquialism |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 美的 美的 | Midea (brand) | Proper Noun |
| 台大 臺大 | abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 开刀 開刀 | (of a surgeon) to perform an operation; (of a patient) to have an operation; to decapitate; to behead; to single out as a point of attack | |
| 准备好了 準備好了 | to be ready | |
| 不愿 不願 | unwilling | |
| 朱 朱 | cinnabar, vermilion; surname | |
| 奇 奇 | strange, unusual, uncanny, occult | |
| 开拍 開拍 | to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc); to start the bidding (auction); to start a trading session (stock market) | |
| 派对 派對 | (loanword) party | |
| 动心 動心 | to be moved; to be tempted | |
| 绝不 絕不 | in no way; not in the least; absolutely not | |
| 梯 梯 | ladder, steps, stairs; lean | |
| 有福 有福 | to be blessed | |
| 湾 灣 | bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream | |
| 把头 把頭 | labor contractor; gangmaster | |
| 拍电影 拍電影 | to make a movie | |
| 赶来 趕來 | to rush over | |
| 退还 退還 | to return (sth borrowed etc); to send back; to refund; to rebate | |
| 世间 世間 | world; earth | |
| 拍片 拍片 | to shoot a film; to have a medical imaging procedure | |
| 谈谈 談談 | to discuss; to have a chat | |
| 受够 受夠 | to have had enough of; to be fed up with; to have had one's fill of | |
| 音乐家 音樂家 | musician | |
| 去台 去臺 | to go to Taiwan; refers to those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 | |
| 活生生 活生生 | real (people); living (artist); while still alive (e.g. skinned alive) | |
| 慢火 慢火 | low heat (cooking) | |
| 鹊桥 鵲橋 | magpie bridge across the Milky Way between Altair and Vega where Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed an annual meeting | |
| 升起 升起 | to raise; to hoist; to rise | |
| 包管 包管 | to assure; to guarantee | |
| 老太爷 老太爺 | elderly gentleman (respectful); esteemed father | |
| 饿死 餓死 | to starve to death; to be very hungry | |
| 说不准 說不準 | unable to say; can't say precisely | |
| 别管 別管 | no matter (who, what etc) | |
| 打死 打死 | to kill; to beat to death | |
| 心跳 心跳 | heartbeat; pulse | |
| 麦 麥 | wheat, barley, oats; simplified form of KangXi radical number 199 | |
| 赶出 趕出 | to drive away | |
| 一声 一聲 | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
| 好久不见 好久不見 | long time no see | |
| 合租 合租 | to rent jointly with other people; co-renting | |
| 心想 心想 | to think to oneself; to think | |
| 不争气 不爭氣 | to be disappointing; to fail to live up to expectations | |
| 马背 馬背 | horse's back; (traditional Chinese architecture) roof with a low-slung curved ridgelines and geometric shapes on the upper gable walls at the ends of the roof ridges | |
| 天花板 天花板 | ceiling | |
| 刀子 刀子 | knife | |
| 争面子 爭面子 | to do (sb) proud; to be a credit to (one's school etc); to make oneself look good; to build up one's image | |
| 报上 報上 | in the newspaper |