Unfinished Melody 1969
碧海青天夜夜心
A sensitive love triangle helmed by one of Shaw era's top directors, Chin Chien. A psychiatrist taking a room at an old friend's apartment soon discovers an insane woman living in a neighboring flat. As the doctor gradually heals the woman he also falls in love with her. The problem arises the friend's daughter confesses her love to him as well. Misunderstanding and mistaken passions soon lead to broken hearts and an emotional confrontation to the love triangle.
Vocabulary
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| 句 句 | sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse | |
| 方法 方法 | method; way; means | |
| 以为 以為 | to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.) | |
| 离开 離開 | to depart; to leave | |
| 真正 真正 | genuine; real; true; really; indeed | |
| 特别 特別 | unusual; special; very; especially; particularly; expressly; for a specific purpose; (often followed by 是) in particular | |
| 办法 辦法 | means; method; way (of doing sth) | |
| 以前 以前 | before; formerly; previous; ago | |
| 帮助 幫助 | assistance; aid; to help; to assist | |
| 求 求 | to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech | |
| 能够 能夠 | to be capable of; to be able to; can | |
| 道 道 | road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division) | |
| 有人 有人 | someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom) | |
| 只要 只要 | if only; so long as | |
| 虽然 雖然 | although; even though (often used correlatively with 是 or 是 etc) | |
| 刚 剛 | hard; firm; strong; just; barely; exactly | |
| 相信 相信 | to be convinced (that sth is true); to believe; to accept sth as true | |
| 信 信 | letter; mail; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random | |
| 以后 以後 | after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future | |
| 可是 可是 | but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed | |
| 计划 計劃 | plan; project; program; to plan; to map out | |
| 机会 機會 | opportunity; chance; occasion | |
| 过去 過去 | (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by | |
| 进行 進行 | to advance; to conduct; underway; in progress; to do; to carry out; to carry on; to execute | |
| 件 件 | item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc | |
| 场 場 | threshing floor; classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout | |
| 条 條 | strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) | |
| 事情 事情 | affair; matter; thing; business | |
| 而且 而且 | (not only ...) but also; moreover; in addition; furthermore | |
| 所有 所有 | all; to have; to possess; to own | |
| 成 成 | to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth | |
| 不要 不要 | don't!; must not | |
| 不过 不過 | only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival) | |
| 一直 一直 | straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through | |
| 生活 生活 | to live; life; livelihood | |
| 一定 一定 | surely; certainly; necessarily; fixed; a certain (extent etc); given; particular; must | |
| 大家 大家 | everyone; influential family; great expert | |
| 发现 發現 | to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery | |
| 位 位 | position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential | |
| 带 帶 | band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise | |
| 应该 應該 | ought to; should; must | |
| 认为 認為 | to believe; to think; to consider; to feel | |
| 这么 這麼 | so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this | |
| 向 向 | towards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; (suffix) suitable for ...; oriented to ... | |
| 那么 那麼 | like that; in that way; or so; so; so very much; about; in that case | |
| 所以 所以 | therefore; as a result; so; the reason why | |
| 当 噹 | to be; to act as; manage; withstand; when; during; ought; should; match equally; equal; same; obstruct; just at (a time or place); on the spot; right; just at | |
| 像 像 | to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.) | |
| 才 才 | ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only | |
| 更 更 | to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) |