Coming Home 2014
归来
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
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Vocabulary
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| 总是 總是 | always | |
| 个人 個人 | individual; personal; oneself | |
| 下来 下來 | to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders) | |
| 马 馬 | horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess | |
| 目前 目前 | at the present time; currently | |
| 保证 保證 | guarantee; to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard; to pledge | |
| 注意 注意 | to take note of; to pay attention to | |
| 支持 支持 | to be in favor of; to support; to back; support; backing; to stand by | |
| 调查 調查 | investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll | |
| 转 轉 | see 转文 | |
| 表现 表現 | to show; to show off; to display; to manifest; expression; manifestation; show; display; performance (at work etc); behavior | |
| 消息 消息 | news; information | |
| 当然 當然 | only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 其实 其實 | actually; in fact; really | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 只有 只有 | only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | |
| 决定 決定 | to decide (to do something); to resolve; decision; certainly | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 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}) | |
| 改行 改行 | to change profession | Xiehouyu |
| 难过 難過 | to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult | Xiehouyu |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 有可能 有可能 | possible; probable; possibly; probably; may; might | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 写信 寫信 | to write a letter | |
| 让开 讓開 | to get out of the way; to step aside | |
| 所有人 所有人 | everyone; owner | |
| 市里 市裡 | li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters) | |
| 才不 才不 | by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 带走 帶走 | to carry; to take away | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 什么地方 什麼地方 | somewhere; someplace; where | |
| 一遍 一遍 | one time (all the way through); once through | |
| 看医生 看醫生 | to visit a doctor | |
| 油条 油條 | youtiao (deep-fried breadstick); slick and sly person | |
| 带回 帶回 | to bring back | |
| 急事 急事 | urgent matter |