Permanent Residence 2009
永久居留
The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved ones.
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Vocabulary
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| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 无边无际 無邊無際 | (idiom) boundless; limitless | Idiom |
| 多此一举 多此一舉 | to do more than is required (idiom); superfluous; gilding the lily | Idiom |
| 一言为定 一言為定 | (idiom) it's a deal; that's settled then | Idiom |
| 一路货 一路貨 | (idiom) (pejorative) as detestable as each other; birds of a feather; cut from the same cloth | Xiehouyu |
| 受不了 受不了 | unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand | Xiehouyu |
| 聊天 聊天 | to chat; to gossip | Xiehouyu |
| 拜拜 拜拜 | (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 天主 天主 | God (in Catholicism); abbr. for, Catholicism | Proper Noun |
| 拉丁舞 拉丁舞 | Latin dance | Proper Noun |
| 孙 孫 | Sun (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 李维斯 李維斯 | Levi's (brand) | Proper Noun |
| 特拉维夫 特拉維夫 | Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv-Jaffa | Proper Noun |
| 印度人 印度人 | Indian (person); Indian people | Proper Noun |
| 耶路撒冷 耶路撒冷 | Jerusalem | Proper Noun |
| 六合彩 六合彩 | Mark Six (Hong Kong lotto game) | Proper Noun |
| 安达 安達 | Anda, county-level city in Suihua, Heilongjiang | Proper Noun |
| 阎罗王 閻羅王 | (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell | Proper Noun |
| 盖茨 蓋茨 | Gates (name) | Proper Noun |
| 泰拳 泰拳 | Muay Thai - "Thai fist" - Martial Art | Proper Noun |
| 西洋 西洋 | the West (Europe and North America); countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional) | Proper Noun |
| 西贡 西貢 | Saigon, capital of former South Vietnam; Sai Kung town in New Territories, Hong Kong | Proper Noun |
| 华航 華航 | China Airlines (Taiwan); abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 名古屋 名古屋 | Nagoya, city in Japan | Proper Noun |
| 巴勒斯坦 巴勒斯坦 | Palestine | Proper Noun |
| 加沙地带 加沙地帶 | Gaza Strip | Proper Noun |
| 撒切尔夫人 撒切爾夫人 | Mrs Thatcher; Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990 | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 来安 來安 | Lai'an, a county in Chuzhou, Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 犹太教 猶太教 | Judaism | Proper Noun |
| 圣地 聖地 | holy land (of a religion); sacred place; shrine; holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc); center of historic interest | Proper Noun |
| 海盐 海鹽 | Haiyan county in Jiaxing, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 莱特 萊特 | Wright (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 塞尔维亚 塞爾維亞 | Serbia; Taiwan pr. [Se4er3wei2ya4] | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 婆婆 婆婆 | husband's mother; mother-in-law; grandma | |
| 永生 永生 | to live forever; eternal life; all one's life | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 没办法 沒辦法 | there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it | |
| 嘉 嘉 | excellent; joyful; auspicious | |
| 相 相 | mutually | |
| 这样子 這樣子 | so; such; this way; like this | |
| 梦中 夢中 | in a dream | |
| 沙包 沙包 | sandbag; punching bag (trad. filled with sand); sand dune; footbag; hacky sack |