Waiting Alone

Waiting Alone 2005

děngdài

An award-winning audience favorite in China since it debuted, Waiting Alone tells the first-person-narrative of Wen (Xia Yu), a shop owner and aspiring author who feels that he's met his dream girl (Li Bingbing). The only problem is, he seems stuck in the friend-zone. Aided by his best friends and the one girl he completely trusts (Gong Beibi), he tries different ways to woo her...

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3.98 Beginner Director Dayyan Eng IMDb 7.3

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gu buttocks; bottom; butt; back part HSK 7
shuǎ to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) HSK 7
穿 穿 chuān zhuó attire; clothes; dress HSK 7
to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge HSK 7
rate; frequency HSK 7
zhēn xīn sincere; heartfelt HSK 7
dān shēn unmarried; single HSK 7
miàn one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face HSK 7
dīng to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at HSK 7
jià (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) HSK 7
tuī jiàn to recommend; recommendation HSK 7
āi hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) HSK 7
kǒng terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist HSK 7
zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
wén language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 HSK 7
tóng zhì comrade; (slang) homosexual HSK 7
(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items HSK 7
gǎn to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ HSK 7
zhǔ owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) HSK 7
é to chant HSK 7
zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it HSK 7
chū suǒ liào as expected Idiom ∼HSK 6
退 退 tuì táng lit. to beat the return drum (idiom); fig. to give up; to turn tail Idiom ∼HSK 6
guǎi wān jiǎo lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom); fig. to speak in a roundabout way; to equivocate; to beat about the bush Idiom ∼HSK 6
máo suàn lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom); fig. trivial (matter) Idiom ∼HSK 6
xiā shuō to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
chě to chatter; nonsense; blather Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
pāi to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
héng chōng - zhí zhuàng (idiom) to barge through, jostling and elbowing; to charge around; to rampage Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
chéng won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? Xiehouyu HSK 6
r method (colloquial) Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
béng guǎn (coll.) regardless of; no matter (where, who etc) Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
jiù suàn (coll.) even if Colloquialism HSK 6
used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
yǒu méi yǒu (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? HSK 6
xíng morality and conduct; Taiwan pr. [de2 xing4] ∼HSK 6
líng not work; be ineffective ∼HSK 6
diē jìn to fall into; to dip below a certain level ∼HSK 6
gōng niú bull ∼HSK 6
yōu gǎn sense of humor ∼HSK 6
shǒu rules; regulations ∼HSK 6
pào niū to pick up girls; to play around with girls; to chase after girls ∼HSK 6
xià fán (of immortals) to descend to the human world ∼HSK 6
li variant of ∼HSK 6
xìng moral integrity ∼HSK 6
chě dàn variant of ∼HSK 6
chá teapot ∼HSK 6
lǎo bàn (of an elderly couple) husband or wife ∼HSK 6
a guitar ∼HSK 6
píng miàn shè graphic design ∼HSK 6