Old Fox 2023
老狐狸
Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.
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Vocabulary
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| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 买房 買房 | to buy a house | |
| 华 華 | flowery; illustrious; Chinese | |
| 不平等 不平等 | inequality; unfairness | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 蛋黄 蛋黃 | egg yolk | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 载 載 | load; carry; transport, convey | |
| 收房 收房 | to take as a concubine | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 卖掉 賣掉 | to sell off | |
| 联 聯 | connect, join; associate, ally | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 一只 一隻 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 只: only, just, simply | |
| 千亿 千億 | myriads; hundred billion | |
| 老头 老頭 | old fellow; old man; father; husband | |
| 背影 背影 | rear view; figure seen from behind; view of the back (of a person or object) | |
| 月租 月租 | to rent by the month | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 面的 麵的 | abbr. of; minivan taxi | |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 全垒打 全壘打 | home run (baseball) | |
| 租房 租房 | to rent an apartment | |
| 鲍鱼 鮑魚 | abalone | |
| 有够 有夠 | very; extremely | |
| 不该 不該 | should not; to owe nothing | |
| 早知道 早知道 | If I had known earlier... | |
| 坏掉 壞掉 | to get broken; to get damaged; to get ruined | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 才不 才不 | by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! | |
| 不用客气 不用客氣 | you're welcome; don't mention it; no need to stand on ceremony | |
| 不只 不只 | not only; not merely | |
| 看走眼 看走眼 | to make an error of judgment; to be taken in | |
| 开灯 開燈 | to turn on the light | |
| 所有人 所有人 | everyone; owner | |
| 维 維 | maintain, preserve, safeguard | |
| 层楼 層樓 | multistoried building; tower; pagoda | |
| 送信 送信 | to send word; to deliver a letter |