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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| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 下个月 下個月 | next month | |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 徐 徐 | slowly, quietly, calmly; composed, dignified | |
| 究 究 | examine, investigate | |
| 泰 泰 | great, exalted, superior; big | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 况 況 | condition, situation; furthermore | |
| 地主 地主 | landlord; landowner; host | |
| 川 川 | stream, river; flow; boil | |
| 好象 好象 | variant of 好像 | |
| 一把年纪 一把年紀 | to be of an advanced age; to be old; an advanced age | |
| 峰 峯 | peak, summit; hump of camel | |
| 电动玩具 電動玩具 | battery-powered toy; (Tw) video game; computer game | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 屁 屁 | break wind; fart; buttocks | |
| 吵醒 吵醒 | to wake sb up with a noise | |
| 上厕所 上廁所 | to go to the bathroom | |
| 上色 上色 | top-quality; top-grade | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 平方 平方 | square (as in square foot, square mile, square root) | |
| 零食 零食 | between-meal nibbles; snacks | |
| 转动 轉動 | to turn sth around; to swivel | |
| 手工 手工 | handwork; manual | |
| 抽烟 抽煙 | to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco) | |
| 办事 辦事 | to handle (affairs); to work | |
| 收回 收回 | to regain; to retake; to take back; to withdraw; to revoke | |
| 青春 青春 | youth; youthfulness | |
| 沉 沉 | to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy | |
| 大陆 大陸 | mainland China (reference to the PRC) | |
| 大哥 大哥 | eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss | |
| 负担 負擔 | to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden | |
| 纯 純 | pure; simple; unmixed; genuine | |
| 维护 維護 | to defend; to safeguard; to protect; to uphold; to maintain | |
| 移 移 | to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove | |
| 针 針 | needle; pin; injection; stitch | |
| 辣 辢 | hot (spicy); pungent; (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting; to burn | |
| 肥 肥 | fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure | |
| 刺 刺 | (onom.) whoosh | |
| 批 批 | to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges) | |
| 阻止 阻止 | to prevent; to block | |
| 挑 挑 | to carry on a shoulder pole; to choose; to pick; to nitpick | |
| 不然 不然 | not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? | |
| 归 歸 | to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | |
| 闹 鬧 | noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke |