Red Sorghum 1988
红高粱
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
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Vocabulary
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| 道 道 | road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division) | |
| 人们 人們 | people | |
| 有人 有人 | someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom) | |
| 不同 不同 | different; distinct; not the same; not alike | |
| 只要 只要 | if only; so long as | |
| 接 接 | to receive; to answer (the phone); to meet or welcome sb; to connect; to catch; to join; to extend; to take one's turn on duty; to take over for sb | |
| 信 信 | letter; mail; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random | |
| 全 全 | all; whole; entire; every; complete | |
| 完 完 | to finish; to be over; whole; complete; entire | |
| 不错 不錯 | correct; right; not bad; pretty good | |
| 过去 過去 | (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by | |
| 头 頭 | head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock | |
| 条 條 | strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) | |
| 长 長 | length; long; forever; always; constantly | |
| 名 名 | name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people | |
| 成 成 | to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth | |
| 不要 不要 | don't!; must not | |
| 不过 不過 | only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival) | |
| 一直 一直 | straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through | |
| 大家 大家 | everyone; influential family; great expert | |
| 位 位 | position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential | |
| 这么 這麼 | so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this | |
| 那么 那麼 | like that; in that way; or so; so; so very much; about; in that case | |
| 当 當 | (onom.) dong; ding dong (bell) | |
| 像 像 | to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.) | |
| 才 才 | ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only | |
| 它 它 | it | |
| 只 只 | only; merely; just; but | |
| 因为 因為 | because; owing to; on account of | |
| 又 又 | (once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway | |
| 这样 這樣 | this kind of; so; this way; like this; such | |
| 已经 已經 | already | |
| 得 得 | to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 大喜 大喜 | exultation | Xiehouyu |
| 不动 不動 | motionless | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乾 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 今儿个 今兒個 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 大号 大號 | tuba; large size (clothes, print etc); (polite) (your) name; (coll.) number two; to defecate | Colloquialism |
| 老半天 老半天 | (coll.) a long time | Colloquialism |
| 对不对 對不對 | right or wrong?; Is it right?; OK, yes? (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 今儿 今兒 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 爷爷 爺爺 | (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather | Colloquialism |