The Yellow Muffler

The Yellow Muffler 1972

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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hái zi girl ∼HSK 2
tuǐ thigh ∼HSK 2
xiàng huà proper; appropriate (mostly used in the negative or in a rhetorical question) ∼HSK 2
dài zǒu to carry; to take away ∼HSK 2
zuǐ mouth; in the mouth; on one's lips; speech; words ∼HSK 2
tiān fèn variant of ∼HSK 2
zhǒng that kind of ∼HSK 2
piàn huā trailer (for a movie) ∼HSK 2
huà yòu shuō huí lai (but) then again; (but) on the other hand ∼HSK 2
piàn chǎng filming location; film set ∼HSK 2
shéi zhī who would have thought; unexpectedly ∼HSK 2
píng to level the land; level ground; plain ∼HSK 2
miàn all sides ∼HSK 2
zhū wǎng spider web; cobweb ∼HSK 2
lìng rén to cause one (to do sth); to make one (angry, delighted etc) ∼HSK 2
liǎng miàn both sides ∼HSK 2
guò 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
yào miàn zi to like to look good in the eyes of others; sensitive about how one is regarded by others; proud ∼HSK 2
kàn shēng to visit a doctor ∼HSK 2
diào xià to drop down; to fall ∼HSK 2
yǎn (department of) ophthalmology ∼HSK 2
míng jiào called; named ∼HSK 2
yòng wán used up; finished ∼HSK 2
xiě xìn to write a letter ∼HSK 2
xiǎo hái zi child ∼HSK 2
yǎn shēng ophthalmologist; eye doctor ∼HSK 2
shí real, true; honest, sincere ∼HSK 2
hǎo si to have the nerve; what a cheek!; to feel no shame; to overcome the shame; (is it) proper? (rhetorical question) ∼HSK 2
xiǎng xiàng to imagine; to envision; imagination ∼HSK 2
dàng diào to fail (a student); to pawn; (of a computer or program) to crash; to stop working ∼HSK 2
chū hǎi to go out to sea; (neologism) to expand into overseas markets ∼HSK 2
zài shēn to possess; to be occupied or burdened with (work, a contract, a lawsuit) ∼HSK 2
jīng eyeball; pupil of eye ∼HSK 2
jiè gěi to lend to sb ∼HSK 2
yòu lái le Here we go again. ∼HSK 2
hái zi men children ∼HSK 2
zài zuò to be present ∼HSK 2
biān four sides ∼HSK 2
néng impossible; cannot; not able ∼HSK 2
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
shǐ begin, start; then, only then ∼HSK 2
gǎi xiě to revise; to edit ∼HSK 2
tíng gōng to stop work; to shut down; to stop production ∼HSK 2
hóng huā safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) ∼HSK 2
yīng gāi de (polite response) you're welcome; just doing my duty; no problem ∼HSK 2
ròu yǎn naked eye; layman's eyes ∼HSK 2
zhǎng de to look (pretty, the same etc) ∼HSK 2
tài Not too HSK 2
xiàng huà unreasonable; shocking; outrageous ∼HSK 2
xiǎo xīn to be a little bit careless; to have a moment of inattentiveness ∼HSK 2