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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| 惊天动地 驚天動地 | world-shaking (idiom) | Idiom |
| 日复一日 日復一日 | day after day | Idiom |
| 息息相关 息息相關 | closely bound up (idiom); intimately related | Idiom |
| 乱七八糟 亂七八糟 | (idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled | Idiom |
| 胆小鬼 膽小鬼 | coward | Xiehouyu |
| 吹牛 吹牛 | to talk big; to shoot off one's mouth; to chat (dialect) | Xiehouyu |
| 莫名其妙 莫名其妙 | (idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable | Xiehouyu |
| 衣裳 衣裳 | (coll.) clothes | Colloquialism |
| 现任 現任 | to occupy a post currently; current (president etc); incumbent; (coll.) current boyfriend (girlfriend, spouse) | Colloquialism |
| 好坏 好壞 | good or bad; good and bad; standard; quality; (coll.) very bad | Colloquialism |
| 夸张 誇張 | to exaggerate; overstated; exaggerated; hyperbole; (coll.) excessive; ridiculous; outrageous | Colloquialism |
| 扯 扯 | to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat; to gossip; (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous; hokey | Colloquialism |
| 啰唆 囉唆 | variant of 啰嗦 | |
| 扫墓 掃墓 | to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person) | |
| 恼羞成怒 惱羞成怒 | to fly into a rage out of humiliation; to be ashamed into anger (idiom) | |
| 祖传 祖傳 | passed on from ancestors; handed down from generation to generation | |
| 喜事 喜事 | happy occasion; wedding | |
| 受惊 受驚 | startled | |
| 逞强 逞強 | to show off; to try to be brave | |
| 出息 出息 | to yield interest, profit etc; to exhale (Buddhism) | |
| 乡亲 鄉親 | fellow countryman (from the same village); local people; villager; the folks back home | |
| 扫除 掃除 | to sweep; to clean with a brush; to sweep away (often fig.) | |
| 感慨 感慨 | to sigh with sorrow, regret etc; rueful; deeply moved | |
| 朗诵 朗誦 | to read aloud with expression; to recite; to declaim | |
| 次要 次要 | secondary | |
| 稀罕 稀罕 | rare; uncommon; rare thing; rarity; to value as a rarity; to cherish; Taiwan pr. [xī hǎn] | |
| 念书 念書 | to read; to study | |
| 嫌弃 嫌棄 | to regard with disdain; to shun | |
| 带路 帶路 | to lead the way; to guide; to show the way; (fig.) to instruct | |
| 嗜好 嗜好 | hobby; indulgence; habit; addiction | |
| 开销 開銷 | to pay (expenses); expenses; (old) to dismiss (an employee) | |
| 通通 通通 | all; entire; complete | |
| 逝世 逝世 | to pass away; to die | |
| 落下 落下 | to fall; to drop; to land (of projectile) | |
| 弟子 弟子 | disciple; follower | |
| 客机 客機 | passenger plane | |
| 退学 退學 | to quit school | |
| 好意 好意 | good intention; kindness | |
| 秘方 祕方 | secret recipe | |
| 简易 簡易 | simple and easy; simplistic; simplicity | |
| 夕阳 夕陽 | sunset; the setting sun | |
| 方言 方言 | the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters | |
| 开朗 開朗 | spacious and well-lit; open and clear; (of character) optimistic; cheerful; carefree | |
| 手艺 手藝 | craftmanship; workmanship; handicraft; trade | |
| 分担 分擔 | to share (a burden, a cost, a responsibility) | |
| 特制 特製 | special; unique | |
| 高山 高山 | high mountain; alpine mountain | |
| 废除 廢除 | to abolish; to abrogate; to repeal | |
| 饲养 飼養 | to raise; to rear | |
| 迫害 迫害 | to persecute |