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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Vocabulary

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pèi abundant, full, copious; sudden ∼HSK 5
lín long spell of rain, copious rain ∼HSK 5
yīn a cushion, mattress; wormwood; Skimmia japon ∼HSK 5
kāi mài camera (loanword) ∼HSK 5
zhū precious stone, gem, jewel, pearl ∼HSK 5
fěn hóng pink ∼HSK 5
péng tent, awning; booth; shed ∼HSK 5
fěn hóng pink ∼HSK 5
tuō striptease ∼HSK 5
yōu sad, grieved; grief, melancholy ∼HSK 5
穿 穿 chāi chuān to expose; to unmask; to see through (a lie etc) ∼HSK 5
zěn me gǎo de How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up? ∼HSK 5
bìng jiān alongside; shoulder to shoulder; side by side; abreast ∼HSK 5
yáng ocean; (old) silver dollar; (slang) Chinese yuan ∼HSK 5
zhèn raise, excite, arouse action ∼HSK 5
shè yǐng (old) camera; movie camera; cine camera ∼HSK 5
zuǐ yìng reluctant to admit a mistake ∼HSK 5
Xiāo common artemisia; dejected ∼HSK 5
greasy, oily, dirty; smooth ∼HSK 5
rèn qīng to see clearly; to recognize; to realize ∼HSK 5
zuò to act in a play; to put on a play ∼HSK 5
jiāo stumble, fall down; wrestle ∼HSK 5
rěn xīn can't bear to (do sth emotionally painful) ∼HSK 5
put out, extinguish, quash ∼HSK 5
dance steps ∼HSK 5
zhì shàng supreme; paramount; above all else ∼HSK 5
xián lái shì at leisure; idle; to have nothing to do ∼HSK 5
hào zhào to have the power to rally supporters ∼HSK 5
miǎo disregard, slight, disdain ∼HSK 5
zuò to compose (music) ∼HSK 5
mǎng shé python; boa ∼HSK 5
tāo large waves ∼HSK 5
tuán song and dance troupe ∼HSK 5
zōng footprints, traces, tracks ∼HSK 5
zhàng tent; account ∼HSK 5
bully, deceive ∼HSK 5
ancestor, forefather; grandfather ∼HSK 5
zǎi zi brat; bastard ∼HSK 5
xiāng jiàn meet ∼HSK 5
shuō dào to talk rubbish ∼HSK 5
xiào unfilial ∼HSK 5
chà jìn bad; no good; below average; disappointing ∼HSK 5
rēng diào to throw away; to throw out ∼HSK 5
zěn néng how can ∼HSK 5
mǐn fast, quick, clever, smart ∼HSK 5
zuò jiā composer; songwriter ∼HSK 5
Hóng vast, immense; flood, deluge ∼HSK 5
Pān surname; water in which rice has been rinsed; a river that flows into the Han ∼HSK 5
dēng modern (loanword); fashionable ∼HSK 5
what (literary) ∼HSK 5