The Yellow Muffler

The Yellow Muffler 1972

玉女嬉春 yùnǚ xī chūn

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....

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4.26 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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女孩子 女孩子 nǚ hái zi girl ∼HSK 2
大腿 大腿 dà tuǐ thigh ∼HSK 2
像话 像話 xiàng huà proper; appropriate (mostly used in the negative or in a rhetorical question) ∼HSK 2
带走 帶走 dài zǒu to carry; to take away ∼HSK 2
嘴里 嘴裡 zuǐ lǐ mouth; in the mouth; on one's lips; speech; words ∼HSK 2
天份 天份 tiān fèn variant of ∼HSK 2
那种 那種 nà zhǒng that kind of ∼HSK 2
片花 片花 piàn huā trailer (for a movie) ∼HSK 2
话又说回来 話又說回來 huà yòu shuō huí lai (but) then again; (but) on the other hand ∼HSK 2
片场 片場 piàn chǎng filming location; film set ∼HSK 2
谁知 誰知 shéi zhī who would have thought; unexpectedly ∼HSK 2
平地 平地 píng dì to level the land; level ground; plain ∼HSK 2
四面 四面 sì miàn all sides ∼HSK 2
蛛网 蛛網 zhū wǎng spider web; cobweb ∼HSK 2
令人 令人 lìng rén to cause one (to do sth); to make one (angry, delighted etc) ∼HSK 2
两面 兩面 liǎng miàn both sides ∼HSK 2
过得 過得 guò dé How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad ∼HSK 2
要面子 要面子 yào miàn zi to like to look good in the eyes of others; sensitive about how one is regarded by others; proud ∼HSK 2
看医生 看醫生 kàn yī shēng to visit a doctor ∼HSK 2
掉下 掉下 diào xià to drop down; to fall ∼HSK 2
眼科 眼科 yǎn kē (department of) ophthalmology ∼HSK 2
名叫 名叫 míng jiào called; named ∼HSK 2
用完 用完 yòng wán used up; finished ∼HSK 2
写信 寫信 xiě xìn to write a letter ∼HSK 2
小孩子 小孩子 xiǎo hái zi child ∼HSK 2
眼科医生 眼科醫生 yǎn kē yī shēng ophthalmologist; eye doctor ∼HSK 2
实 實 shí real, true; honest, sincere ∼HSK 2
好意思 好意思 hǎo yì si to have the nerve; what a cheek!; to feel no shame; to overcome the shame; (is it) proper? (rhetorical question) ∼HSK 2
想像 想像 xiǎng xiàng to imagine; to envision; imagination ∼HSK 2
当掉 當掉 dàng diào to fail (a student); to pawn; (of a computer or program) to crash; to stop working ∼HSK 2
出海 出海 chū hǎi to go out to sea; (neologism) to expand into overseas markets ∼HSK 2
在身 在身 zài shēn to possess; to be occupied or burdened with (work, a contract, a lawsuit) ∼HSK 2
睛 睛 jīng eyeball; pupil of eye ∼HSK 2
借给 借給 jiè gěi to lend to sb ∼HSK 2
又来了 又來了 yòu lái le Here we go again. ∼HSK 2
孩子们 孩子們 hái zi men children ∼HSK 2
在座 在座 zài zuò to be present ∼HSK 2
四边 四邊 sì biān four sides ∼HSK 2
不可能 不可能 bù kě néng impossible; cannot; not able ∼HSK 2
卖座 賣座 mài zuò (of a movie, show or restaurant) to attract customers; popular with the paying public; high-grossing; number of seats occupied (by moviegoers etc) ∼HSK 2
始 始 shǐ begin, start; then, only then ∼HSK 2
改写 改寫 gǎi xiě to revise; to edit ∼HSK 2
停工 停工 tíng gōng to stop work; to shut down; to stop production ∼HSK 2
红花 紅花 hóng huā safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) ∼HSK 2
应该的 應該的 yīng gāi de (polite response) you're welcome; just doing my duty; no problem ∼HSK 2
肉眼 肉眼 ròu yǎn naked eye; layman's eyes ∼HSK 2
长得 長得 zhǎng de to look (pretty, the same etc) ∼HSK 2
不太 不太 bù tài Not too HSK 2
不像话 不像話 bù xiàng huà unreasonable; shocking; outrageous ∼HSK 2
一不小心 一不小心 yī bù xiǎo xīn to be a little bit careless; to have a moment of inattentiveness ∼HSK 2