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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| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 独 獨 | alone; independent; single; sole; only | |
| 港 港 | harbor; port | |
| 注定 註定 | to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably | |
| 恶 惡 | used in 恶心 | |
| 吼 吼 | to roar; to howl; to shriek; roar or howl of an animal; bellow of rage | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 栋 棟 | classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old) | |
| 蛮 蠻 | barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless | |
| 怀孕 懷孕 | pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy | |
| 醒来 醒來 | to waken | |
| 屁股 屁股 | buttocks; bottom; butt; back part | |
| 武装 武裝 | arms; equipment; to arm; military; armed (forces) | |
| 惊 驚 | to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm | |
| 哼 哼 | to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 释放 釋放 | to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 婚姻 婚姻 | matrimony; wedding; marriage | |
| 许 許 | to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 袭击 襲擊 | attack (esp. surprise attack); raid; to attack | |
| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 恐怖 恐怖 | terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 自寻烦恼 自尋煩惱 | to bring trouble on oneself (idiom) | Idiom |
| 破门而入 破門而入 | to break the door down and enter (idiom) | Idiom |
| 东倒西歪 東倒西歪 | to lean unsteadily from side to side (idiom); to sway; (of buildings etc) to lean at a crazy angle | Idiom |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 不通 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | Xiehouyu |
| 嘿咻 嘿咻 | (coll.) to make love | Colloquialism |
| 撑死 撐死 | full to the point of bursting; (coll.) at most | Colloquialism |
| 发神经 發神經 | (coll.) to go crazy; to lose it; demented; unhinged | Colloquialism |
| 整治 整治 | to bring under control; to regulate; to restore to good condition; (coll.) to fix (a person); to prepare (a meal etc) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 槟榔 檳榔 | betel palm (Areca catechu); betel nut |