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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| 首 首 | head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc | |
| 政府 政府 | government | |
| 之前 之前 | before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand | |
| 甚至 甚至 | even; so much so that | |
| 选择 選擇 | to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative | |
| 了解 了解 | to understand; to realize; to find out | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 找死 找死 | to court death; to take a big risk | Xiehouyu |
| 乱来 亂來 | to act recklessly; to mess around | Xiehouyu |
| 死人 死人 | dead person; (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen | Colloquialism |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 整 整 | exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 印尼 印尼 | Indonesia | Proper Noun |
| 马来语 馬來語 | Malay language | Proper Noun |
| 星期六 星期六 | Saturday | Proper Noun |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 生日快乐 生日快樂 | Happy birthday | |
| 气死 氣死 | to infuriate; to be furious; to die from an excess of anger | |
| 乱跑 亂跑 | to run around all over the place | |
| 乱说 亂說 | to talk drivel; to make irresponsible remarks | |
| 搬走 搬走 | to carry | |
| 有的时候 有的時候 | sometimes; at times | |
| 上班时间 上班時間 | working hours; office hours | |
| 乱花 亂花 | to spend recklessly; to waste money | |
| 付钱 付錢 | to pay money | |
| 整条 整條 | entire; whole (fish, road etc) | |
| 诺 諾 | promise; assent, approve | |
| 想得美 想得美 | to have an unrealistically optimistic expectation; (as an interjection) what a dreamer! | |
| 有兴趣 有興趣 | interested; interesting | |
| 跳楼 跳樓 | to jump from a building (to kill oneself); fig. to sell at a large discount (in advertising) | |
| 该死 該死 | Damn it!; damned; wretched | |
| 钟点 鐘點 | hour; specified time | |
| 付现 付現 | to pay in cash | |
| 甜点 甜點 | dessert | |
| 多糖 多糖 | polysaccharide | |
| 要死 要死 | extremely; awfully | |
| 耶 耶 | used in transliteration | |
| 把门 把門 | to stand as a goalkeeper; to keep guard on a gate | |
| 藉 藉 | mat, pad; rely on; pretext | |
| 绝不 絕不 | in no way; not in the least; absolutely not | |
| 回转 回轉 | variant of | |
| 创业 創業 | to begin an undertaking; to start a major task; to initiate; to venture; venture; entrepreneurship | |
| 信封 信封 | envelope | |
| 功课 功課 | homework; assignment; task; classwork; lesson; study | |
| 底下 底下 | the location below sth; afterwards | |
| 牌子 牌子 | sign; trademark; brand | |
| 吵架 吵架 | to quarrel; to have a row; quarrel | |
| 屋子 屋子 | house; room |