Goodbye South, Goodbye 1996
南国再见，南国
In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.
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Vocabulary
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| 可以 可以 | can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good | |
| 得 得 | to have to; must; ought to; to need to | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 没大没小 沒大沒小 | impolite; cheeky; impudent | Xiehouyu |
| 没关系 沒關係 | it doesn't matter | Xiehouyu |
| 好吃 好吃 | tasty; delicious | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 爷爷 爺爺 | (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather | Colloquialism |
| 菜 菜 | dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor | Colloquialism |
| 爸爸 爸爸 | (coll.) father; dad | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 上海 上海 | Shanghai municipality | Proper Noun |
| 东京 東京 | Tokyo, capital of Japan; Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period) | Proper Noun |
| 加拿大 加拿大 | Canada | Proper Noun |
| 新天地 新天地 | Xintiandi (shopping, eating and entertainment district of Shanghai) | Proper Noun |
| 老子 老子 | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi | Proper Noun |
| 日本 日本 | Japan | Proper Noun |
| 京都 京都 | Kyoto, Japan | Proper Noun |
| 一下 一下 | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 他妈的 他媽的 | (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 不好 不好 | no good | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 打点 打點 | to bribe; to get (luggage) ready; to put in order; to organize things; (baseball) RBI (run batted in) | |
| 等一下 等一下 | to wait a moment; later; in awhile | |
| 喜 喜 | like, love, enjoy; joyful thing | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 一点 一點 | a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia | |
| 这就 這就 | immediately; at once | |
| 你等 你等 | (archaic) you all | |
| 几点 幾點 | what time?; when? | |
| 一个人 一個人 | by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) | |
| 不太好 不太好 | not so good; not too well | |
| 到时 到時 | at that (future) time | |
| 有钱 有錢 | well-off; wealthy | |
| 每天 每天 | every day |