A Brighter Summer Day 1991
牯岭街少年杀人事件
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
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Vocabulary
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| 教育部 教育部 | Ministry of Education | |
| 省钱 省錢 | to save money | |
| 造反 造反 | to rebel; to revolt | |
| 钟头 鐘頭 | hour | |
| 母女 母女 | mother and daughter; mother-daughter | |
| 冷水 冷水 | cold water; unboiled water; fig. not yet ready (of plans) | |
| 耳环 耳環 | earring | |
| 要好 要好 | to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement | |
| 打牌 打牌 | to play mahjong or cards | |
| 船只 船隻 | ship; boat; vessel | |
| 拖鞋 拖鞋 | slippers; sandals; flip-flops | |
| 来往 來往 | to come and go; to have dealings with; to be in relation with | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 醋 醋 | vinegar; jealousy (in love rivalry) | |
| 自在 自在 | comfortable; at ease | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 马车 馬車 | cart; chariot; carriage; buggy | |
| 好不容易 好不容易 | with great difficulty; very difficult | |
| 薪水 薪水 | salary; wage | |
| 陆军 陸軍 | army; ground forces | |
| 哎哟 哎喲 | hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 医药 醫藥 | medical care and medicines; medicine (drug); medical; pharmaceutical | |
| 没收 沒收 | to confiscate; to seize | |
| 拿走 拿走 | to take away | |
| 上台 上台 | to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater) | |
| 长久 長久 | (for a) long time | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 信用 信用 | trustworthiness; (commerce) credit; (literary) to trust and appoint | |
| 洋 洋 | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin | |
| 赖 賴 | to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on | |
| 心脏病 心臟病 | heart disease | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 奉献 奉獻 | to offer respectfully; to consecrate; to dedicate; to devote | |
| 教堂 教堂 | church; chapel | |
| 歌词 歌詞 | song lyric; lyrics | |
| 景 景 | (bound form) scenery; circumstance; situation; scene (of a play); (literary) sunlight | |
| 场地 場地 | space; site; place; sports pitch | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 晓得 曉得 | to know | |
| 办公 辦公 | to handle official business; to work (esp. in an office) | |
| 吞 吞 | to swallow; to take | |
| 扁 扁 | flat; (coll.) to beat (sb) up; old variant of 匾 | Colloquialism |
| 看好 看好 | to keep an eye on | |
| 阴谋 陰謀 | to conspire; to plot; a conspiracy; a plot | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role | |
| 园 園 | land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 园, such as a botanical garden 植物园, kindergarten 幼儿园 etc | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully |