So Long, My Son 2019
地久天长
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
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Vocabulary
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| 个人 個人 | individual; personal; oneself | |
| 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) | |
| 比较 比較 | to compare; to contrast; comparatively; relatively; quite; comparison | |
| 注意 注意 | to take note of; to pay attention to | |
| 保护 保護 | to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection | |
| 处理 處理 | to handle; to deal with; to punish; to treat sth by a special process; to process; to sell at reduced prices | |
| 方式 方式 | way; manner; style; mode; pattern | |
| 调查 調查 | investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll | |
| 转 轉 | see 转文 | |
| 解决 解決 | to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc) | |
| 表现 表現 | to show; to show off; to display; to manifest; expression; manifestation; show; display; performance (at work etc); behavior | |
| 消息 消息 | news; information | |
| 当然 當然 | only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 决定 決定 | to decide (to do something); to resolve; decision; certainly | |
| 任何 任何 | any; whatever; whichever; whatsoever | |
| 每 每 | each; every | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 内 內 | inside; inner; internal; within; interior | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 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}) | |
| 大喊大叫 大喊大叫 | shouting and screaming (idiom); to scream loudly; to rant; to kick up a racket; to conduct vigorous propaganda | Idiom |
| 面熟 面熟 | to look familiar; familiar-looking | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 难过 難過 | to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult | 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 |
| 星星 星星 | (coll.) a star; the stars in the sky | 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 |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 云和 雲和 | Yunhe county in Lishui, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 海南 海南 | Hainan Province, capital Haikou; Hainan Island in South China Sea; Hainan District of Wuhait City, Inner Mongolia; Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Qinghai Province | Proper Noun |
| 好时 好時 | Hershey's (brand) | Proper Noun |
| 深圳 深圳 | Shenzhen, sub-provincial city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 邓小平 鄧小平 | Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" | Proper Noun |
| 少先队 少先隊 | Young Pioneers of China, abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 天全 天全 | Tianquan county in Ya'an, Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good |