Vermilion Door 1965
红伶泪
The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage partner, and the warlord who forces himself between them, has been a favorite with Chinese audiences for decades.
Vocabulary
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| 已经 已經 | already | |
| 得 得 | to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished | |
| 为 為 | as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) | |
| 可以 可以 | can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 多谢 多謝 | many thanks; thanks a lot | Xiehouyu |
| 老毛病 老毛病 | chronic illness; old weakness; chronic problem | Xiehouyu |
| 大不了 大不了 | at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming | Xiehouyu |
| 没关系 沒關係 | it doesn't matter | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 今儿 今兒 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 有病 有病 | to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head | Colloquialism |
| 明儿 明兒 | (coll.) tomorrow; one of these days; some day | Colloquialism |
| 小两口 小兩口 | (coll.) young married couple | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 昨儿 昨兒 | (coll.) yesterday | Colloquialism |
| 这会儿 這會兒 | (coll.) now; this moment; also pr. [zhè huǐ r] | Colloquialism |
| 爷爷 爺爺 | (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather | Colloquialism |
| 爸爸 爸爸 | (coll.) father; dad | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 上海 上海 | Shanghai municipality | Proper Noun |
| 三国 三國 | Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history; any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla in 658 | Proper Noun |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 二哥 二哥 | second brother | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 我去 我去 | (slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 儿 兒 | son, child; KangXi radical 10 | |
| 不好 不好 | no good | |
| 有了 有了 | I've got a solution!; to have a bun in the oven | |
| 几个 幾個 | a few; several; how many | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 你好 你好 | hello; hi | |
| 是的 是的 | yes, that's right; variant of | |
| 不想 不想 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise |