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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| 来电 來電 | incoming telephone call (or telegram); to phone in; to send in a telegram; to have an instant attraction to sb; (of electricity, after an outage) to come back | |
| 嘲笑 嘲笑 | to jeer at; to deride; to ridicule; mockery; derision | |
| 临 臨 | to face; to overlook; to arrive; to be (just) about to; just before | |
| 投降 投降 | to surrender; surrender | |
| 壳 殼 | shell; carapace; crust (earth's crust etc); also pr. [ké] | |
| 凑 湊 | to gather together, pool or collect; to happen by chance; to move close to; to exploit an opportunity | |
| 陪伴 陪伴 | to accompany | |
| 凤凰 鳳凰 | Fenghuang County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 州 | |
| 可笑 可笑 | funny; ridiculous | |
| 孔 孔 | hole; classifier for cave dwellings | |
| 刑事 刑事 | criminal; penal | |
| 短暂 短暫 | of short duration; brief; momentary | |
| 毫不 毫不 | hardly; not in the least; not at all | |
| 难怪 難怪 | (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that) | |
| 撤 撤 | to remove; to take away | |
| 罐 罐 | can; jar; pot | |
| 报复 報復 | to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation | |
| 哎呀 哎呀 | interjection of wonder, shock or admiration | |
| 携带 攜帶 | to carry (on one's person); to support (old); Taiwan pr. [xī dài] | |
| 拼命 拼命 | to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it | |
| 姿势 姿勢 | posture; position | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 趁 趁 | to avail oneself of; to take advantage of | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 顺便 順便 | conveniently; in passing; without much extra effort | |
| 折磨 折磨 | to torment; to torture | |
| 发型 髮型 | hairstyle; coiffure; hairdo | |
| 娶 娶 | to take a wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 寻 尋 | to search; to look for; to seek | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 栋 棟 | classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old) | |
| 怀孕 懷孕 | pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy | |
| 丁 丁 | male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 干; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl | |
| 革命 革命 | to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) | |
| 尿 尿 | to urinate; urine | |
| 业 業 | line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; already | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 供 供 | to provide; to supply | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 案件 案件 | case; instance | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant |