The Blue Kite 1994
蓝风筝
A young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s.
Vocabulary
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| 操纵 操縱 | to operate; to control; to rig; to manipulate | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 织 織 | to weave | |
| 挨 挨 | in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to | |
| 横 橫 | horizontal; across; crosswise; horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters); to place (sth) flat (on a surface); to cross (a river, etc); in a jumble; chaotic; (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable; violent | |
| 串 串 | to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role | |
| 添 添 | to add; to increase; to replenish | |
| 磨 磨 | to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist | |
| 从不 從不 | never | |
| 祖国 祖國 | motherland | |
| 成分 成分 | composition; ingredient; element; component; one's social status | |
| 消灭 消滅 | to put an end to; to annihilate; to cause to perish; to perish; annihilation (in quantum field theory) | |
| 支援 支援 | to provide assistance; to support; to back | |
| 钻 鑽 | to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain | |
| 井 井 | a well; neat; orderly | |
| 作战 作戰 | combat; to fight | |
| 判 判 | to judge; to sentence; to discriminate; to discern; clearly distinguishable | |
| 民主 民主 | democracy | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 偏 偏 | to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations | |
| 贡献 貢獻 | to contribute; to dedicate; to devote; contribution | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 嗨 嗨 | oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword) | |
| 托 託 | prop; support (for weight); rest (e.g. arm rest); thanks to; to hold in one's hand; to support in one's palm; to give; to base; to commit; to set; torr (unit of pressure) | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 将军 將軍 | general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 进攻 進攻 | to attack; to assault; to go on the offensive; attack; assault; offense (sports) | |
| 母 母 | mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female | |
| 泡 泡 | puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names); classifier for urine or feces | |
| 炒 炒 | to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) | |
| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on | |
| 党 黨 | party; association; club; society | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 部队 部隊 | army; armed forces; troops; force; unit | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 情绪 情緒 | mood; state of mind; moodiness | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 据 㨿 | used in 据 | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 于 | (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 老样子 老樣子 | old situation; things as they were | Xiehouyu |