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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| 到来 到來 | to arrive; arrival; advent | |
| 回头 回頭 | to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by | |
| 后悔 後悔 | to regret; to feel remorse | |
| 滑 滑 | to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth; sly; slippery; not to be trusted | |
| 辛苦 辛苦 | exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s) | |
| 一辈子 一輩子 | (for) a lifetime | |
| 滚 滾 | to boil; to roll; to take a hike; Get lost! | |
| 骗 騙 | to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over | |
| 厉害 厲害 | (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding; (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough; (of an animal) fierce; (of a resemblance) striking; (of liquor or chili pepper) strong; (of bacteria) virulent | |
| 丢 丟 | to lose; to put aside; to throw | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 人物 人物 | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); figure painting (as a genre of traditional Chinese painting) | |
| 享受 享受 | to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 一言为定 一言為定 | (idiom) it's a deal; that's settled then | Idiom |
| 受不了 受不了 | unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 村委会 村委會 | village committee | Proper Noun |
| 侗族 侗族 | Kam people, who live mostly in southern China and in the north of Laos and Vietnam | Proper Noun |
| 县长 縣長 | county's head commissioner | Proper Noun |
| 乡里 鄉里 | one's home town or village | Proper Noun |
| 王五 王五 | Wang Wu, name for an unspecified person, third of a series of three:,, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 好象 好象 | variant of 好像 | |
| 娃 娃 | baby; doll; pretty girl | |
| 寒 寒 | cold, wintry, chilly | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 投机取巧 投機取巧 | to gain advantage by any means, fair or foul; to be opportunistic; to be full of tricks | |
| 定能 定能 | to be definitely able (to do sth) | |
| 没底 沒底 | unsure; uncertain; unending | |
| 翻过 翻過 | to turn over; to transform | |
| 坪 坪 | level ground; Japanese measure | |
| 苦差事 苦差事 | hard task; difficult mission; arduous and unrewarding undertaking; drudgery; grind; chore | |
| 了局 了局 | end; conclusion; solution | |
| 效 俲 | result, effect; effectiveness | |
| 盖房 蓋房 | to build a house | |
| 寄出 寄出 | to mail; to send by post | |
| 抄近 抄近 | to take a shortcut | |
| 叫苦 叫苦 | to whine about hardships; to complain of one's bitter lot; to complain; to grumble | |
| 生产队 生產隊 | production team | |
| 脚底 腳底 | soles of the feet | |
| 汇票 匯票 | bill of exchange; bank draft |