Ilo Ilo 2013
爸妈不在家
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
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Vocabulary
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| 关 關 | mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc); to concern; to involve | |
| 早上 早上 | early morning | |
| 房子 房子 | house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room | |
| 忘 忘 | to forget; to overlook; to neglect | |
| 不用 不用 | need not | |
| 教 教 | religion; teaching; to make; to cause; to tell | |
| 家里 家裡 | home | |
| 第 第 | (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 六 "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just | |
| 床 床 | bed; couch; classifier for beds | |
| 睡觉 睡覺 | to go to bed; to sleep | |
| 来到 來到 | to arrive; to come | |
| 试 試 | to test; to try; experiment; examination; test | |
| 热 熱 | to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent | |
| 白 白 | white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera | |
| 字 字 | letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | |
| 说话 說話 | to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word | |
| 十 十 | ten; 10 | |
| 忙 忙 | busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush | |
| 马上 馬上 | at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force) | |
| 名字 名字 | name (of a person or thing) | |
| 医生 醫生 | doctor | |
| 老师 老師 | teacher | |
| 出去 出去 | to go out | |
| 那里 那裏 | there; that place | |
| 楼 樓 | house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor | |
| 包 包 | to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; to contract (to or for); package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet | |
| 哪里 哪裏 | where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里 | |
| 身体 身體 | the body; one's health; in person | |
| 歌 歌 | song; to sing | |
| 杯 杯 | cup; trophy cup; classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup | |
| 明白 明白 | clear; obvious; unequivocal; to understand; to realize | |
| 儿子 兒子 | son | |
| 二 二 | two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid | |
| 学生 學生 | student; schoolchild | |
| 子 子 | son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 位; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; sub- | |
| 真的 真的 | really, truly, indeed | |
| 动 動 | (of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace; to touch; to make use of; to stir (emotions); to alter; abbr. for 动词, verb | |
| 先生 先生 | teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor | |
| 五 五 | five; 5 | |
| 书 書 | abbr. for 书经 | |
| 晚 晚 | evening; night; late | |
| 回家 回家 | to return home | |
| 跑 跑 | (of an animal) to paw (the ground) | |
| 哪 哪 | how; which | |
| 间 間 | between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms | |
| 难 難 | difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good | |
| 少 少 | few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom | |
| 妈妈 媽媽 | mama; mommy; mother | |
| 第二 第二 | second; number two; next; secondary | |
| 多少 多少 | number; amount; somewhat |