American Dreams in China

American Dreams in China 2013

zhōngguó héhuǒrén

Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams.

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4.19 Intermediate Director Peter Chan Ho-Sun IMDb 6.9

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Vocabulary

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liǎo jiě to understand; to realize; to find out HSK 4
zhī hòu after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then HSK 4
què but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though HSK 4
ér and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) HSK 4
quē qián shortage of money Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
máo bìng fault; defect; shortcomings; ailment Xiehouyu HSK 3
tòng pain; suffering; painful Xiehouyu HSK 3
biē ground beetle; (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a, has never studied overseas; (dialect) country bumpkin Colloquialism ∼HSK 3
yào shi (coll.) if Colloquialism HSK 3
shū to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) Colloquialism HSK 3
zhěng exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb Colloquialism HSK 3
xuè blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] Colloquialism HSK 3
guǎn to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards Colloquialism HSK 3
Zhōng guó bào China Daily (an English language newspaper) Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Xīng Friday Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Měi Midea (brand) Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
lán Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-2010), Spanish Olympic official, president of International Olympic Committee 1980-2001 Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
mǒu rén someone; a certain person; some people; I (self-address after one's surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
měi Hemei or Homei Town in Changhua County, Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Běi jīng Wǎn bào Beijing Evening News Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Měi American English Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Míng cháo Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Wàn reign name of Ming emperor (1573-1619) Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Shěn yáng Shenyang, sub-provincial city and capital of Liaoning Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
shì zhōng xīn city center; downtown Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
yáng positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism); Yang, opposite: ∼HSK 3
nuò promise; assent, approve ∼HSK 3
bǎn quán copyright ∼HSK 3
xiàng video recorder; VCR ∼HSK 3
shēng xué biology ∼HSK 3
饿 è to starve to death; to be very hungry ∼HSK 3
shēn ài to love dearly ∼HSK 3
dēng shàng to climb over; to ascend onto; to mount ∼HSK 3
zhōu kān weekly publication; weekly ∼HSK 3
lìng another; the other ∼HSK 3
zǒng yǒu inevitably there will be ∼HSK 3
kòng zi gap; unoccupied space or time; fig. gap; loophole ∼HSK 3
méi at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice ∼HSK 3
dǎo shí chā to adjust to a different time zone ∼HSK 3
xiào campus ∼HSK 3
(of a stock) to fall below the issue price; (of a tennis player) to break serve ∼HSK 3
bān rén average person ∼HSK 3
zhāng zuǐ to open one's mouth (to speak, esp. to make a request); to gape ∼HSK 3
liú (said by departing guest) no need to see me out ∼HSK 3
xiāng huì to meet together ∼HSK 3
měi ge rén everybody; everyone ∼HSK 3
lèi all categories ∼HSK 3
xiǎng zhǔ idealism ∼HSK 3
àn xià to press down; to press a button ∼HSK 3
shì dào the ways of the world; the morals of the time ∼HSK 3