Little Big Women 2020
孤味
A story about a karaoke-addicted old woman struggling with her self-worth and a sense of betrayal at her long-lost husband's funeral where she encounters his younger and more sophisticated girlfriend while she finds out her kids might have been secretly in touch with her late husband all these years.
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Vocabulary
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| 无 無 | not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less | |
| 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 | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 乱来 亂來 | to act recklessly; to mess around | Xiehouyu |
| 全心全意 全心全意 | heart and soul; wholeheartedly | Xiehouyu |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 痛苦 痛苦 | pain; suffering; painful | Xiehouyu |
| 死人 死人 | dead person; (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen | Colloquialism |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | 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 |
| 台北 臺北 | Taipei, capital of Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 台南 臺南 | Tainan, a city and special municipality in southwest Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 台北市 臺北市 | Taibei or Taipei, capital of Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 阳明山 陽明山 | Mt Yangming in Hunan; Mt Yangming in north Taiwan, near Taibei | Proper Noun |
| 耶 耶 | used in transliteration | |
| 在台 在臺 | in Taiwan (used attributively) | |
| 芬香 芬香 | fragrance; fragrant | |
| 生日快乐 生日快樂 | Happy birthday | |
| 过世 過世 | to die; to pass away | |
| 政 政 | government, political affairs | |
| 异 異 | different, unusual, strange | |
| 有办法 有辦法 | can find methods; resourceful; creative | |
| 去台 去臺 | to go to Taiwan; refers to those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 | |
| 进香 進香 | to burn incense at a temple | |
| 鼻 鼻 | nose; first; KangXi radical 209 | |
| 鼻头 鼻頭 | tip of the nose; (dialect) nose | |
| 不愿 不願 | unwilling | |
| 转接 轉接 | (telephony etc) to switch; to connect; to transfer | |
| 湾 灣 | bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream | |
| 乱讲 亂講 | to talk nonsense; nonsense! | |
| 乱跑 亂跑 | to run around all over the place | |
| 艾 艾 | artemisia, mugwort; translit. | |
| 抓走 抓走 | to arrest | |
| 随风 隨風 | wind-borne; tossed about by the wind | |
| 虱目鱼 虱目魚 | milkfish (Chanos chanos) | |
| 好久不见 好久不見 | long time no see | |
| 杨 楊 | willow, poplar, aspen; surname | |
| 般 般 | sort, manner, kind, category | |
| 乱说 亂說 | to talk drivel; to make irresponsible remarks | |
| 挂断 掛斷 | to hang up (a phone) | |
| 籍 籍 | record, register, list; census | |
| 火化 火化 | to cremate; to incinerate | |
| 医保 醫保 | medical insurance; abbr. for | |
| 巧了 巧了 | what a coincidence! | |
| 跳楼 跳樓 | to jump from a building (to kill oneself); fig. to sell at a large discount (in advertising) | |
| 弄伤 弄傷 | to bruise; to hurt (something) | |
| 菜刀 菜刀 | vegetable knife; kitchen knife; cleaver | |
| 有种 有種 | to have guts; to have courage; to be brave |