Postmen in the Mountains 1999
那山那人那狗
An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire, his only son due to take over his duties.
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Vocabulary
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| 坡 坡 | slope; sloping; slanted | |
| 往后 往後 | from now on; in the future; time to come | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 挨 挨 | in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 晓得 曉得 | to know | |
| 跪 跪 | to kneel | |
| 掏 掏 | to fish out (from pocket); to scoop | |
| 扭 扭 | to turn; to twist; to wring; to sprain; to swing one's hips | |
| 直升机 直升機 | helicopter | |
| 从不 從不 | never | |
| 跨 跨 | to step across; to stride over; to straddle; to span | |
| 路过 路過 | to pass by or through | |
| 刮 刮 | to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 笑容 笑容 | smile; smiling expression | |
| 当天 當天 | on that day | |
| 一时 一時 | a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time | |
| 扎 扎 | used in 挣扎 | |
| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 平衡 平衡 | balance; equilibrium | |
| 孤独 孤獨 | lonely; solitary | |
| 托 托 | prop; support (for weight); rest (e.g. arm rest); thanks to; to hold in one's hand; to support in one's palm; to give; to base; to commit; to set; torr (unit of pressure) | |
| 闭 閉 | to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 扣 釦 | button | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 搭 搭 | to put up; to build (scaffolding); to hang (clothes on a pole); to connect; to join; to arrange in pairs; to match; to add; to throw in (resources); to take (boat, train); variant of 褡 | |
| 部队 部隊 | army; armed forces; troops; force; unit | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 胡来 胡來 | to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules; to mess with sth; to make a hash of things; to cause trouble | Xiehouyu |
| 一路 一路 | the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind | Xiehouyu |
| 婆 婆 | old woman; grandmother | |
| 昌 昌 | light of sun; good, proper | |
| 辈子 輩子 | all one's life; lifetime | |
| 垄 壟 | grave, mound; ridge in field | |
| 掌 掌 | palm of hand, sole of foot, paw | |
| 链子 鏈子 | chain | |
| 右侧 右側 | right side | |
| 蚣 蚣 | centipede | |
| 休 休 | do not, stop | |
| 劳模 勞模 | model worker | |
| 投递 投遞 | to deliver | |
| 何尝 何嘗 | (rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that... | |
| 耕 畊 | plow, cultivate |