Shower 1999
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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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| 区 區 | area; region; district; small; distinguish | |
| 下来 下來 | to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders) | |
| 根本 根本 | fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all | |
| 活 活 | to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | |
| 者 者 | (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 其实 其實 | actually; in fact; really | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 如何 如何 | how; what way; what | |
| 只有 只有 | only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 比赛 比賽 | competition (sports etc); match; to compete | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 拉倒 拉倒 | (coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go; to pull down | Xiehouyu |
| 头一回 頭一回 | the first time; for the first time | Xiehouyu |
| 上脸 上臉 | to turn red in the face (while drinking); to become smug (when complimented) | Xiehouyu |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 干活儿 幹活兒 | erhua variant of 干活; (coll.) to work; (coll.) to be employed | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 深圳 深圳 | Shenzhen, sub-provincial city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 卡拉 卡拉 | Kara, city in northern Togo; Cara, Karla etc (name) | Proper Noun |
| 湖里 湖裡 | Huli, a district of Xiamen City, Fujian | Proper Noun |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 从今以后 從今以後 | from now on; henceforward | |
| 有空儿 有空兒 | available | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 加点 加點 | to work extra hours; to do overtime | |
| 大腿 大腿 | thigh | |
| 改天 改天 | another day; some other time; to find another day (for appointment etc); to take a rain check | |
| 热狗 熱狗 | hot dog (loanword) | |
| 份儿 份兒 | degree; extent; allotted share | |
| 百万 百萬 | million | |
| 名儿 名兒 | name; fame | |
| 向后 向後 | backward | |
| 后背 後背 | the back (human anatomy); the back part of sth | |
| 过得 過得 | How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad | |
| 新近 新近 | newly | |
| 开眼 開眼 | to open one's eyes; to widen one's horizons | |
| 看在眼里 看在眼裡 | to observe; to take it all in | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem |