A City of Sadness 1989
悲情城市
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
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Vocabulary
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| 流行 流行 | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable | |
| 不如 不如 | not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to | |
| 理想 理想 | an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect | |
| 安静 安靜 | quiet; peaceful; calm | |
| 草 艸 | grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough | |
| 放心 放心 | to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease | |
| 看法 看法 | way of looking at a thing; view; opinion | |
| 大人 大人 | adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors | |
| 多久 多久 | (of time) how long?; (not) a long time | |
| 骑 騎 | (Tw) saddle horse; mounted soldier | |
| 的话 的話 | if (coming after a conditional clause) | |
| 早就 早就 | already at an earlier time | |
| 到处 到處 | everywhere | |
| 热情 熱情 | cordial; enthusiastic; passion; passionate; passionately | |
| 随便 隨便 | as one wishes; as one pleases; at random; negligent; casual; wanton | |
| 大多数 大多數 | (great) majority | |
| 方便 方便 | convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself | |
| 太阳 太陽 | sun; abbr. for 太阳穴 | |
| 雪 雪 | snow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc) | |
| 大部分 大部分 | in large part; the greater part; the majority | |
| 黄 黃 | yellow; pornographic; to fall through | |
| 平 平 | flat; level; equal; to tie (make the same score); to draw (score); calm; peaceful; abbr. for 平声 | |
| 疼 疼 | (it) hurts; sore; to love dearly | |
| 照顾 照顧 | to take care of; to show consideration; to attend to; to look after | |
| 封 封 | to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters | |
| 交给 交給 | to give; to deliver; to hand over | |
| 长大 長大 | to grow up | |
| 不行 不行 | won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable | |
| 怎么办 怎麼辦 | what's to be done | |
| 不够 不夠 | not enough; insufficient; inadequate | |
| 打算 打算 | to plan; to intend; to calculate; plan; intention; calculation | |
| 怎么样 怎麼樣 | how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? | |
| 船 舩 | boat; vessel; ship | |
| 流 流 | to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade | |
| 心情 心情 | mood; frame of mind | |
| 喂 喂 | hello (when answering the phone) | |
| 听说 聽說 | to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking | |
| 通知 通知 | to notify; to inform; notice; notification | |
| 笔 筆 | pen; pencil; writing brush; to write or compose; the strokes of Chinese characters; classifier for sums of money, deals | |
| 心里 心裡 | chest; heart; mind | |
| 日子 日子 | day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life | |
| 教育 教育 | to educate; to teach; education | |
| 节 節 | see 节骨眼 | |
| 正是 正是 | is precisely | |
| 刚才 剛才 | just now; a moment ago | |
| 样子 樣子 | appearance; manner; pattern; model | |
| 年轻 年輕 | young | |
| 海 海 | ocean; sea; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous | |
| 省 省 | to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government) | |
| 改 改 | to change; to alter; to transform; to correct |