Shower 1999
洗澡
An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of Shenzhen, abruptly returns one day, it once again puts under stress the long-broken father-son ties. Presented as a light-hearted comedy, Shower explores the value of family, friendship, and tradition.
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Vocabulary
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| 会 會 | can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [huǐ]) | |
| 一 一 | one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit | |
| 好 好 | good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello | |
| 说 說 | to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine | |
| 要 要 | to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 是); (bound form) important | |
| 个 個 | (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual | |
| 我们 我們 | we; us; ourselves; our | |
| 人 人 | person; people | |
| 和 咊 | (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [hàn]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japanese | |
| 就 就 | (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 着) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (pattern: 就 ... 也 ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不 ... 就 ...) if not ... then must be ... | |
| 这 這 | (pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhèi], esp. in Beijing) | |
| 他 他 | he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant); (used before sb's name for emphasis); (used as a meaningless mock object); (literary) other | |
| 不 不 | no; not so; (bound form) not; un- | |
| 有 有 | to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 意 intentional) | |
| 你 你 | you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您) | |
| 在 在 | to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) | |
| 是 是 | to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion) | |
| 我 我 | I; me; my | |
| 了 了 | (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) | |
| 的 的 | really and truly | |
| 帶 帶 | Rare | |
| 飽 飽 | ||
| 搶 搶 | Rare | |
| 換 換 | Rare | |
| 俢 俢 | Rare | |
| 嗩 嗩 | Rare | |
| 寬 寬 | Rare | |
| 嘅 嘅 | possessive particle (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: | Rare |
| 歡 歡 | Rare | |
| 燒 燒 | Rare | |
| 貶 貶 | Rare | |
| 熱 熱 | Rare | |
| 哟 喲 | Oh! (interjection indicating slight surprise); also pr. [yao1] | Interjection |
| 噢 噢 | oh; ah (used to indicate realization); also pr. [ou4] | Interjection |
| 喽 嘍 | (bound form) subordinates in a gang of bandits | Interjection |
| 啪 啪 | (onom.) bang; pop; pow | Onomatopoeia |
| 呵呵 呵呵 | (onom.) gentle laughter; chuckle | Interjection |
| 嘿嘿 嘿嘿 | (onom.) he he; mischievous laughter | Interjection |