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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shì jiè world HSK 3
zhǐ shì merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however HSK 3
shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out HSK 3
wàng to hope; a hope; a wish HSK 3
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
shí o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period HSK 3
jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
bèi quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) HSK 3
to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) HSK 3
nán kàn ugly; unsightly Xiehouyu HSK 2
nán guò to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult Xiehouyu HSK 2
yào liǎn (coll.) to have a sense of shame Colloquialism ∼HSK 2
Lǎo jiē Lao Cai, Vietnam; Laokai or Laukkai, Burma (Myanmar) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Lín forest, grove; surname ∼HSK 2
Yán face, facial appearance ∼HSK 2
Liú surname; kill, destroy ∼HSK 2
xiǎo hái zi child ∼HSK 2
xiǎo hái child ∼HSK 2
dìng yào must ∼HSK 2
shēng xià to give birth to ∼HSK 2
tóu big head; mask in the shape of a big head; the larger end of sth; the main part; the lion's share; dupe; sucker; (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai on the obverse side ∼HSK 2
shén me shí hou when?; at what time? ∼HSK 2
xiě xìn to write a letter ∼HSK 2
wài liú outflow; to flow out; to drain ∼HSK 2
hǎo shēng (dialect) very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly ∼HSK 2
měi every time ∼HSK 2
yīng gāi de (polite response) you're welcome; just doing my duty; no problem ∼HSK 2
xiǎo niǎo small bird; young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick); (fig.) penis (kiddie term); (golf) birdie ∼HSK 2
bié to leave (on a long journey); to part from sb ∼HSK 2
this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle ∼HSK 2
cái by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! ∼HSK 2
zhǐ 一: one; a, an; alone · 只: only, just, simply ∼HSK 2
hǎi nautical mile ∼HSK 2
dài not to have; without; un- ∼HSK 2
chī bǎo to eat one's fill ∼HSK 2
bié to take leave of; to leave; separation ∼HSK 2
kǒu hóng lipstick ∼HSK 2
Chén exhibit, display; plead; a surname ∼HSK 2
píng tiān xià to pacify the country ∼HSK 2
xiàng hòu backward ∼HSK 2
biān river bank ∼HSK 2
shuǐ river water ∼HSK 2
de hěn (after an adjective) very ∼HSK 2
zuò wéi to act as; used erroneously for 作為|作为 ∼HSK 2
guò How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad ∼HSK 2
zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
liáng kuai nice and cold; pleasantly cool HSK 2
zǒu kāi to leave; to walk away; to beat it; to move aside HSK 2
chū guó to go abroad; to leave the country HSK 2