Still Human 2018
沦落人
A Hong Kong man with a disability hires a Filipino migrant worker to care for him. As they spend more time together through different seasons, they start learning about themselves.
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Vocabulary
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| 活 活 | to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | |
| 强 強 | stubborn; unyielding | |
| 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 | |
| 转 轉 | to revolve; to turn; to circle about; to walk about; classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm; classifier for repeated actions | |
| 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 | |
| 成功 成功 | Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 台东县, southeast Taiwan | |
| 部 部 | ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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") | |
| 由 由 | to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | |
| 一切 一切 | everything; every; all | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 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 | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 已 已 | already; to stop; then; afterwards | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 比赛 比賽 | competition (sports etc); match; to compete | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 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}) | |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 字典 字典 | Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 菲律宾 菲律賓 | the Philippines | Proper Noun |
| 街市 街市 | downtown area; commercial district; (chiefly Cantonese) wet market, i.e. a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish and vegetables etc | Proper Noun |
| 纽约 紐約 | New York | Proper Noun |
| 红磡 紅磡 | Hung Hom, a locality in Kowloon, Hong Kong | Proper Noun |
| 伦敦 倫敦 | London, capital of United Kingdom | Proper Noun |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 鸡脚 雞腳 | chicken feet | |
| 没问题 沒問題 | no problem | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 生菜 生菜 | lettuce; raw fresh vegetables; greens |