American Girl 2021
美國女孩
When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.
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Vocabulary
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| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 比赛 比賽 | competition (sports etc); match; to compete | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | 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) | |
| 把 把 | 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}) | |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 约翰 約翰 | John (name); Johan (name); Johann (name) | Proper Noun |
| 深圳 深圳 | Shenzhen, sub-provincial city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 小孩子 小孩子 | child | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 往前 往前 | (in) the past; ahead; forward; in the future | |
| 头上 頭上 | overhead; above | |
| 排比 排比 | parallelism (rhetoric); to arrange things alongside each other | |
| 靠北 靠北 | (Tw) (slang) to rattle on; to carp; stop whining!; shut the hell up!; fuck!; damn! (from Taiwanese 哭爸, Tai-lo pr. [khàu-pē], "to cry over one's dad's death") | |
| 有够 有夠 | very; extremely | |
| 不带 不帶 | not to have; without; un- | |
| 天啊 天啊 | good heavens!; oh my God! | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 网咖 網咖 | Internet café (Tw) | |
| 停下来 停下來 | to stop | |
| 营 營 | encampment, barracks; manage | |
| 长多 長多 | good prospects in the long term (finance) | |
| 字句 字句 | words; expressions; writing | |
| 借钱 借錢 | to borrow money; to lend money | |
| 早知道 早知道 | If I had known earlier... | |
| 百万 百萬 | million | |
| 网路 網路 | network (computer, telecom); Internet; Taiwanese term for | |
| 当家 當家 | to manage the household; to be the one in charge of the family; to call the shots; to be in charge | |
| 明知 明知 | to be fully aware of; to know perfectly well | |
| 大哭 大哭 | to cry loudly | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 卖掉 賣掉 | to sell off |