Dear Tenant 2020
亲爱的房客
A boy lives with his Grandma and Mr. Lin, the tenant who looks after him and Grandma. But when Grandma passes away, the boy's uncle returns to Taiwan and discovers that ownership of the apartment was transferred to other people.
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Vocabulary
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| 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 | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 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}) | |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 玩完 玩完 | (coll.) to end in failure; to come to grief; to bite the dust | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 小年夜 小年夜 | (coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve; (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian); (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen | Colloquialism |
| 要脸 要臉 | (coll.) to have a sense of shame | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 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 | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 维 維 | maintain, preserve, safeguard | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 吃药 吃藥 | to take medicine | |
| 房客 房客 | tenant | |
| 小孩子 小孩子 | child | |
| 带回 帶回 | to bring back | |
| 交友 交友 | to make friends | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 吗啡 嗎啡 | morphine (loanword) | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 吃完 吃完 | to finish eating | |
| 杀人 殺人 | homicide; to murder; to kill (a person) | |
| 有权 有權 | to have the right to; to be entitled to; to have authority; powerful | |
| 得很 得很 | (after an adjective) very | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 吃饱 吃飽 | to eat one's fill | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 洗脸 洗臉 | to wash the face | |
| 前妻 前妻 | ex-wife; late wife | |
| 洗碗 洗碗 | to wash the dishes | |
| 省得 省得 | to avoid; so as to save (money or time) | |
| 物 物 | thing, substance, creature | |
| 成份 成份 | composition; make-up; ingredient; element; component; one's social status; same as 成分 | |
| 男孩 男孩 | boy | |
| 二级 二級 | grade 2; second class; category B | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 没有关系 沒有關係 | it doesn't matter | |
| 听得懂 聽得懂 | to understand (by hearing); to catch (what sb says) | |
| 希 希 | rare; hope, expect, strive for | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 改成 改成 | to convert; to turn into (sth else); to adapt (a story to another medium) | |
| 当做 當做 | to treat as; to regard as; to look upon as |