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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| 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 | |
| 房子 房子 | house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room | |
| 电 電 | lightning; electricity; electric (bound form); to get (or give) an electric shock; phone call or telegram etc; to send via telephone or telegram etc | |
| 忘 忘 | to forget; to overlook; to neglect | |
| 读 讀 | comma; phrase marked by pause | |
| 不用 不用 | need not | |
| 差 差 | difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly | |
| 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 | |
| 回到 回到 | to return to | |
| 票 票 | ticket; ballot; banknote; person held for ransom; amateur performance of Chinese opera; classifier for groups, batches, business transactions | |
| 睡觉 睡覺 | to go to bed; to sleep | |
| 试 試 | to test; to try; experiment; examination; test | |
| 去年 去年 | last year | |
| 高兴 高興 | happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood | |
| 汽车 汽車 | car; automobile; bus | |
| 说话 說話 | to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word | |
| 女儿 女兒 | daughter | |
| 听到 聽到 | to hear | |
| 看见 看見 | to see; to catch sight of | |
| 十 十 | ten; 10 | |
| 手机 手機 | cell phone; mobile phone | |
| 今年 今年 | this year | |
| 她们 她們 | they; them (for females) | |
| 医生 醫生 | doctor | |
| 大学 大學 | the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism | |
| 六 六 | six; 6 | |
| 学习 學習 | to learn; to study | |
| 出去 出去 | to go out | |
| 那里 那裏 | there; that place | |
| 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 | |
| 中国 中國 | China | |
| 半 半 | half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half | |
| 儿子 兒子 | son | |
| 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 | |
| 五 五 | five; 5 | |
| 书 書 | book; letter; document; to write | |
| 昨天 昨天 | yesterday | |
| 回家 回家 | to return home | |
| 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 | |
| 别的 別的 | else; other | |
| 少 少 | few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom | |
| 错 錯 | mistake; wrong; bad; interlocking; complex; to grind; to polish; to alternate; to stagger; to miss; to let slip; to evade; to inlay with gold or silver | |
| 妈妈 媽媽 | mama; mommy; mother | |
| 谢谢 謝謝 | to thank; thanks; thank you | |
| 妈 媽 | ma; mom; mother |