Last Train Home 2009
归途列车
A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 130 million other peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world's next super power.
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Vocabulary
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| 买不起 買不起 | cannot afford; can't afford buying | |
| 火车站 火車站 | train station | |
| 放假 放假 | to have a holiday or vacation | |
| 上车 上車 | to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc) | |
| 北京 北京 | Beijing, capital of the People's Republic of China | |
| 生病 生病 | to fall ill | |
| 外国 外國 | foreign (country) | |
| 国外 國外 | abroad; external (affairs); overseas; foreign | |
| 哪些 哪些 | which ones?; who?; what? | |
| 坐下 坐下 | to sit down | |
| 读书 讀書 | to read a book; to study; to attend school | |
| 火车 火車 | train | |
| 这边 這邊 | this side; here | |
| 干什么 幹什麼 | what are you doing?; what's he up to? | |
| 是不是 是不是 | is or isn't; yes or no; whether or not | |
| 哪儿 哪兒 | where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? | |
| 这儿 這兒 | here | |
| 明年 明年 | next year | |
| 在家 在家 | to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家) | |
| 干净 乾淨 | clean; neat | |
| 弟弟 弟弟 | younger brother | |
| 那边 那邊 | over there; yonder | |
| 工人 工人 | worker | |
| 老人 老人 | old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents | |
| 妹妹 妹妹 | younger sister; young woman | |
| 九 九 | nine; 9 | |
| 考 攷 | to check; to verify; to test; to examine; to take an exam; to take an entrance exam for; deceased father | |
| 车上 車上 | Car | |
| 星期 星期 | week; day of the week; Sunday | |
| 帮忙 幫忙 | to help; to lend a hand; to do a favor; to do a good turn | |
| 慢 慢 | slow | |
| 有时候 有時候 | sometimes | |
| 没什么 沒什麼 | nothing; it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind | |
| 进去 進去 | to go in | |
| 有时 有時 | sometimes; now and then | |
| 饭 飯 | cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee | |
| 姐姐 姐姐 | older sister | |
| 上班 上班 | to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office | |
| 衣服 衣服 | clothes | |
| 七 七 | seven; 7 | |
| 吃饭 吃飯 | to have a meal; to eat; to make a living | |
| 有的 有的 | (there are) some (who are...); some (exist) | |
| 洗 洗 | to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording) | |
| 班 班 | team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles | |
| 休息 休息 | rest; to rest | |
| 打电话 打電話 | to make a telephone call | |
| 累 累 | to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lèi]); continuous; repeated | |
| 回去 回去 | to return; to go back | |
| 爸 爸 | father; dad; pa; papa | |
| 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 |