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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| 来台 來台 | to come to Taiwan | |
| 想像力 想像力 | conception; imagination | |
| 另一 另一 | another; the other | |
| 双眼 雙眼 | the two eyes | |
| 鲁 魯 | foolish, stupid, rash; vulgar | |
| 没多久 沒多久 | before long; soon after | |
| 乱讲 亂講 | to talk nonsense; nonsense! | |
| 抓去 抓去 | to arrest and take away | |
| 到时候 到時候 | when the moment comes; at that time | |
| 音 音 | sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation | |
| 婚 婚 | get married; marriage, wedding | |
| 讲台 講台 | variant of | |
| 有办法 有辦法 | can find methods; resourceful; creative | |
| 少爷 少爺 | son of the boss; young master of the house; your son (honorific) | |
| 乱花钱 亂花錢 | to spend money recklessly; to squander | |
| 大幅 大幅 | large-format (picture, banner, photo etc); substantially; by a wide margin | |
| 吴 吳 | name of warring state; surname | |
| 登上 登上 | to climb over; to ascend onto; to mount | |
| 有心 有心 | to have a mind to; to intend to; deliberately; considerate | |
| 活下去 活下去 | to survive; to keep on living | |
| 录影 錄影 | to videotape; to videorecord | |
| 晴空万里 晴空萬里 | a clear and boundless sky | |
| 举世 舉世 | throughout the world; world ranking (e.g. first) | |
| 楚 楚 | name of feudal state; clear | |
| 赶出 趕出 | to drive away | |
| 众 眾 | multitude, crowd; masses, public | |
| 富贵 富貴 | riches and honor | |
| 搬走 搬走 | to carry | |
| 派出所 派出所 | local police station | |
| 去台 去臺 | to go to Taiwan; refers to those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 | |
| 费心 費心 | to take a lot of trouble (over sb or sth); may I trouble you (to do sth) | |
| 补习班 補習班 | cram class; cram school; evening classes | |
| 升上 升上 | (of an employee) to be promoted to (a higher rank); (of a student) to enter (a higher grade at school) | |
| 死刑 死刑 | death penalty; capital punishment | |
| 绝不 絕不 | in no way; not in the least; absolutely not | |
| 奇 奇 | strange, unusual, uncanny, occult | |
| 每个人 每個人 | everybody; everyone | |
| 围住 圍住 | to surround; to gird | |
| 救世 救世 | salvation | |
| 气死 氣死 | to infuriate; to be furious; to die from an excess of anger | |
| 保有 保有 | to keep; to retain | |
| 本报 本報 | this newspaper | |
| 做牛做马 做牛做馬 | lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard | |
| 领到 領到 | to receive | |
| 委 委 | appoint, send, commission | |
| 康 康 | peaceful, quiet; happy, healthy | |
| 代工 代工 | OEM (original equipment manufacturer) | |
| 初选 初選 | primary election | |
| 花光 花光 | to spend all one's money | |
| 鱼香 魚香 | yuxiang, a seasoning of Chinese cuisine that typically contains garlic, scallions, ginger, sugar, salt, chili peppers etc (Although "yuxiang" literally means "fish fragrance", it contains no seafood.) |