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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| 女孩子 女孩子 | girl | |
| 大腿 大腿 | thigh | |
| 像话 像話 | proper; appropriate (mostly used in the negative or in a rhetorical question) | |
| 带走 帶走 | to carry; to take away | |
| 嘴里 嘴裡 | mouth; in the mouth; on one's lips; speech; words | |
| 天份 天份 | variant of | |
| 那种 那種 | that kind of | |
| 片花 片花 | trailer (for a movie) | |
| 话又说回来 話又說回來 | (but) then again; (but) on the other hand | |
| 片场 片場 | filming location; film set | |
| 谁知 誰知 | who would have thought; unexpectedly | |
| 平地 平地 | to level the land; level ground; plain | |
| 四面 四面 | all sides | |
| 蛛网 蛛網 | spider web; cobweb | |
| 令人 令人 | to cause one (to do sth); to make one (angry, delighted etc) | |
| 两面 兩面 | both sides | |
| 过得 過得 | How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad | |
| 要面子 要面子 | to like to look good in the eyes of others; sensitive about how one is regarded by others; proud | |
| 看医生 看醫生 | to visit a doctor | |
| 掉下 掉下 | to drop down; to fall | |
| 眼科 眼科 | (department of) ophthalmology | |
| 名叫 名叫 | called; named | |
| 用完 用完 | used up; finished | |
| 写信 寫信 | to write a letter | |
| 小孩子 小孩子 | child | |
| 眼科医生 眼科醫生 | ophthalmologist; eye doctor | |
| 实 實 | real, true; honest, sincere | |
| 好意思 好意思 | to have the nerve; what a cheek!; to feel no shame; to overcome the shame; (is it) proper? (rhetorical question) | |
| 想像 想像 | to imagine; to envision; imagination | |
| 当掉 當掉 | to fail (a student); to pawn; (of a computer or program) to crash; to stop working | |
| 出海 出海 | to go out to sea; (neologism) to expand into overseas markets | |
| 在身 在身 | to possess; to be occupied or burdened with (work, a contract, a lawsuit) | |
| 睛 睛 | eyeball; pupil of eye | |
| 借给 借給 | to lend to sb | |
| 又来了 又來了 | Here we go again. | |
| 孩子们 孩子們 | children | |
| 在座 在座 | to be present | |
| 四边 四邊 | four sides | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 卖座 賣座 | (of a movie, show or restaurant) to attract customers; popular with the paying public; high-grossing; number of seats occupied (by moviegoers etc) | |
| 始 始 | begin, start; then, only then | |
| 改写 改寫 | to revise; to edit | |
| 停工 停工 | to stop work; to shut down; to stop production | |
| 红花 紅花 | safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) | |
| 应该的 應該的 | (polite response) you're welcome; just doing my duty; no problem | |
| 肉眼 肉眼 | naked eye; layman's eyes | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 不太 不太 | Not too | |
| 不像话 不像話 | unreasonable; shocking; outrageous | |
| 一不小心 一不小心 | to be a little bit careless; to have a moment of inattentiveness |