The Yellow Muffler

The Yellow Muffler 1972

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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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zhōng gào to give sb a word of advice; advice; counsel; a wise word ∼HSK 6
gěi to bestow; to give ∼HSK 6
jiā xùn instructions to one's children; family precepts ∼HSK 6
bàn tuǒ to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through ∼HSK 6
da goose pimples; goose bumps ∼HSK 6
xiāng féng to meet (by chance); to come across ∼HSK 6
禿 tóu to bare one's head; to be bareheaded; to go bald; bald head; bald person ∼HSK 6
chuàn tōng to collude; to collaborate; to gang up ∼HSK 6
qiú bái lài to pester relentlessly and shamelessly (idiom); to nag and beg without letup ∼HSK 6
tǎo fàn to ask for food; to beg ∼HSK 6
tuō undress ∼HSK 6
to shut ∼HSK 6
diào to quit (one's job); to dismiss (an employee) ∼HSK 6
yàng yàng all kinds ∼HSK 6
lěi ballet (loanword) ∼HSK 6
shuǐ xiù flowing sleeves (part of theatrical costume) ∼HSK 6
mài mìng to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away; to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause) ∼HSK 6
gǒu wild dog; feral dog; stray dog ∼HSK 6
qīng jiǔ sake (Japanese rice wine) ∼HSK 6
zòng shēn to leap; to spring; to throw oneself ∼HSK 6
yuē specially engaged; employed or commissioned for a special task ∼HSK 6
kǎn duàn to chop off ∼HSK 6
tǎn to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc; to take sb's side ∼HSK 6
quē mean; nasty; reprehensible; unprincipled ∼HSK 6
chéng méng to be indebted (to sb) ∼HSK 6
gǎn how could one dare?; I don't deserve such praise ∼HSK 6
xuán (literary) to practice medicine; to work as a pharmacist ∼HSK 6
kǒu to scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty ∼HSK 6
lín bié just before parting ∼HSK 6
yōng quack; charlatan ∼HSK 6
guì bài to kowtow; to kneel and worship ∼HSK 6
huān chàng happy; cheerful; jubilant ∼HSK 6
qíng chǎng affairs of the heart; mutual relationship ∼HSK 6
gōng hard work; laborious effort; painstaking work ∼HSK 6
xiā yǎn to be blind ∼HSK 6
huán qīng to pay back in full; to redeem a debt ∼HSK 6
jǐng nightscape ∼HSK 6
huò cāng warehouse ∼HSK 6
shā gauze ∼HSK 6
diàn yǐng jiè moviedom; the world of movies; film circles ∼HSK 6
zhēng kāi to open (one's eyes) ∼HSK 6
to disregard; to take no account of ∼HSK 6
jiāo zhī to interweave ∼HSK 6
yàng diagram; blueprint ∼HSK 6
ái to receive a scolding ∼HSK 6
piàn chóu remuneration for playing a role in a movie or television drama ∼HSK 6
zuān dòng to bore; to burrow; to crawl through a tunnel ∼HSK 6
liǎng shǒu one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise HSK 6
zhōng wài Sino-foreign; Chinese-foreign; home and abroad HSK 6
yún black cloud HSK 6