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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bào shàng in the newspaper ∼HSK 3
zhuǎn shì reincarnation or transmigration (Buddhism) ∼HSK 3
fèi xīn to take a lot of trouble (over sb or sth); may I trouble you (to do sth) ∼HSK 3
huáng niú ox; cattle; scalper of tickets etc; (dialect) to fail to show up; (dialect) to break a promise ∼HSK 3
luàn pǎo to run around all over the place ∼HSK 3
rén shì the world; this world; the world of the living ∼HSK 3
guāng yīn time available ∼HSK 3
shuǐ lóng tóu faucet; tap ∼HSK 3
fáng dōng landlord HSK 3
duǎn short pants; shorts HSK 3
jìn near in time; in the near future; very soon; recent HSK 3
qún zi skirt HSK 3
dōng winter HSK 3
chǎo jià to quarrel; to have a row; quarrel HSK 3
chūn spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life HSK 3
hào inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity HSK 3
zi trousers; pants HSK 3
yóu yǒng swimming; to swim HSK 3
wán plaything; toy HSK 3
cái néng talent; ability; capacity HSK 3
shí tou stone HSK 3
shàng lái to come up; to approach; (verb complement indicating success) HSK 3
to break; to smash HSK 3
néng néng Can you HSK 3
shù xué mathematics; mathematical HSK 3
chǎo to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise HSK 3
gǎn kuài quickly; at once HSK 3
xiāng each other; mutual HSK 3
jìn progress; improvement; to improve; to progress HSK 3
chǔ base; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental HSK 3
zhǔ rèn director; head HSK 3
shàng to go up HSK 3
xiāng each other; mutually; mutual HSK 3
need not; does not have to; not necessarily HSK 3
nèi xīn heart; innermost being; (math.) incenter HSK 3
fǎn zhèng anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side HSK 3
xìn rèn to trust; to have confidence in HSK 3
退 退 tuì to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline HSK 3
zhòng great; important; major; significant HSK 3
màn màn slowly HSK 3
guài strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled HSK 3
gòng tóng common; joint; jointly; together; collaborative HSK 3
gài roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea HSK 3
fan trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble HSK 3
chuàng zào to create; to bring about; to produce; to set (a record) HSK 3
shòu shāng to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc); harmed HSK 3
jià to support; frame; rack; framework; classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc HSK 3
wài miàn outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance HSK 3
zuǒ yòu left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence HSK 3
to record; record (written account); note-taker; record (in sports etc) HSK 3