On Happiness Road 2018
幸福路上
Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?
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Vocabulary
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| 获得 獲得 | to obtain; to receive; to get | |
| 首 首 | head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc | |
| 考虑 考慮 | to think over; to consider; consideration | |
| 是否 是否 | whether (or not); if; is or isn't | |
| 政府 政府 | government | |
| 之前 之前 | before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand | |
| 甚至 甚至 | even; so much so that | |
| 关于 關於 | pertaining to; concerning; with regard to; about; a matter of | |
| 之间 之間 | (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间) | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 作为 作為 | one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be | |
| 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 | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 坐吃山空 坐吃山空 | lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom); fig. to spend one's money without generating any income | Idiom |
| 铁饭碗 鐵飯碗 | secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl) | Xiehouyu |
| 乱来 亂來 | to act recklessly; to mess around | Xiehouyu |
| 亲 親 | parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear | Xiehouyu |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | 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 |
| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | 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 |
| 台中 臺中 | Taichung, city in central Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 台语 台語 | Taiwanese Hokkien (aka Taiwanese Minnan, or simply Taiwanese) | Proper Noun |
| 台北 臺北 | Taipei, capital of Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 印尼 印尼 | Indonesia | Proper Noun |
| 美的 美的 | Midea (brand) | Proper Noun |
| 时报 時報 | "Times" (newspaper, e.g. New York Times) | Proper Noun |
| 金牛 金牛 | Taurus (star sign); Jinniu district of Chengdu city, Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 中美 中美 | China-USA | Proper Noun |
| 阿嬷 阿嬤 | (Tw) grandma (also used to refer to or address an elderly woman) (from Taiwanese 阿媽, Tai-lo pr. [a-má]) | |
| 耶 耶 | used in transliteration | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 在台 在臺 | in Taiwan (used attributively) | |
| 湾 灣 | bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream | |
| 秀 秀 | ear of grain; flowering, luxuriant; refined, elegant, graceful | |
| 恩 㤙 | kindness, mercy, charity | |
| 沙 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 有空 有空 | to have time (to do sth) | |
| 饿死 餓死 | to starve to death; to be very hungry | |
| 过世 過世 | to die; to pass away | |
| 没水准 沒水準 | lacking class; boorish; poor quality; substandard | |
| 朱 朱 | cinnabar, vermilion; surname | |
| 杨 楊 | willow, poplar, aspen; surname | |
| 好久不见 好久不見 | long time no see | |
| 健 健 | strong, robust, healthy; strength | |
| 阿里山 阿里山 | Alishan mountain range in the central-southern region of Taiwan |