A Summer at Grandpa's

A Summer at Grandpa's 1984

dōng dōng de jià

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

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3.65 Beginner Director Hou Hsiao-hsien 🍅 100%

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Vocabulary

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hái hǎo not bad; tolerable; fortunately ∼HSK 1
guó zhōng junior high school (Tw); abbr. for ∼HSK 1
zǎo shuì - zǎo early to bed, early to rise; to keep early hours ∼HSK 1
shí fifteen; 15 ∼HSK 1
hào (slang) heroin ∼HSK 1
zhè shì 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that ∼HSK 1
chē zi car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc) ∼HSK 1
穿 穿 shì chuān to try wearing clothes; fitting trial ∼HSK 1
chī rén exploitative; oppressive ∼HSK 1
zǎi zi offspring of an animal; brat; bastard ∼HSK 1
zhǎo huí to retrieve ∼HSK 1
kàn shàng to look upon; to take a fancy to; to fall for ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
rén lit. that person; fig. the person you have been looking for; Mr Right; the girl of one's dreams ∼HSK 1
kàn bu guò qu cannot stand by idly and watch; unable to put up with it any longer ∼HSK 1
pǎo lái pǎo to scamper; to run around ∼HSK 1
zuò cuò to make an error ∼HSK 1
sān International Women's Day, 8th March; foolish; stupid ∼HSK 1
jiù shì in other words; i.e. ∼HSK 1
zhè wèi this (person) ∼HSK 1
wài shēng sister's son; wife's sibling's son ∼HSK 1
xiǎo ér young child; (humble) my son ∼HSK 1
jiā de (old) wife ∼HSK 1
(interjection) fuck you; (intensifier) fucking ∼HSK 1
tiān that day; the other day ∼HSK 1
zuì gāo tallest; highest; supreme (court etc) ∼HSK 1
Xīng thrive, prosper, flourish ∼HSK 1
fàng chū to let off; to give out ∼HSK 1
xiǎng jiā homesick ∼HSK 1
qǐng zuò please, have a seat HSK 1
zhēn shi de Really! (interj. of annoyance or frustration) ∼HSK 1
qián tiān the day before yesterday HSK 1
chē piào ticket (for a bus or train) HSK 1
shàng chē to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc) HSK 1
tīng jiàn to hear HSK 1
péng you girlfriend HSK 1
shàng last time HSK 1
huǒ chē train HSK 1
nán shēng schoolboy; male student; boy; guy (young adult male) HSK 1
gàn shén me what are you doing?; what's he up to? HSK 1
kāi chē to drive a car HSK 1
shì shì is or isn't; yes or no; whether or not HSK 1
r where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? HSK 1
mèi younger sister HSK 1
zài jiàn goodbye; see you again later HSK 1
míng nián next year HSK 1
zài jiā to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家) HSK 1
di younger brother HSK 1
bian over there; yonder HSK 1
zhī shi knowledge; intellectual HSK 1