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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| 说不定 說不定 | can't say for sure; maybe | |
| 扫 掃 | to sweep | |
| 构成 構成 | to constitute; to form; to compose; to make up; to configure (computing) | |
| 新娘 新娘 | bride | |
| 阿姨 阿姨 | maternal aunt; step-mother; childcare worker; nursemaid; woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) | |
| 棵 棵 | classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc | |
| 汇报 匯報 | to report; to give an account of; to collect information and report back | |
| 阵 陣 | disposition of troops; wave; spate; burst; spell; short period of time; classifier for events or states of short duration | |
| 反映 反映 | to mirror; to reflect; mirror image; reflection; (fig.) to report; to make known; to render | |
| 锻炼 鍛鍊 | to toughen; to temper; to engage in physical exercise; to work out; (fig.) to develop one's skills; to train oneself | |
| 减 減 | to lower; to decrease; to reduce; to subtract; to diminish | |
| 扩大 擴大 | to expand; to enlarge; to broaden one's scope | |
| 街道 街道 | street; subdistrict; residential district | |
| 帽子 帽子 | hat; cap; (fig.) label; bad name | |
| 叔叔 叔叔 | father's younger brother; uncle; Taiwan pr. [shú shu] | |
| 折 折 | to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business) | |
| 维护 維護 | to defend; to safeguard; to protect; to uphold; to maintain | |
| 培养 培養 | to cultivate; to breed; to foster; to nurture; to educate; to groom (for a position); education; fostering; culture (biology) | |
| 散 㪚 | scattered; loose; to come loose; to fall apart; leisurely; powdered medicine | |
| 袋 袋 | pouch; bag; sack; pocket | |
| 肥 肥 | fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure | |
| 婚礼 婚禮 | wedding ceremony; wedding | |
| 似的 似的 | seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de] | |
| 万一 萬一 | just in case; if by any chance; contingency | |
| 居民 居民 | resident; inhabitant | |
| 法院 法院 | court of law; court | |
| 批 批 | to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges) | |
| 行业 行業 | trade; profession; industry; business | |
| 闹 鬧 | noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke | |
| 透 透 | (bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly; through and through; to appear; to show | |
| 烦 煩 | to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy | |
| 材料 材料 | (raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 官 官 | government official; governmental; official; public; organ of the body | |
| 战斗 戰鬥 | to fight; to engage in combat; struggle; battle | |
| 戴 戴 | to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support | |
| 毕业 畢業 | graduation; to graduate; to finish school | |
| 手里 手裡 | in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands | |
| 既 既 | already; since; both... (and...) | |
| 提醒 提醒 | to remind; to call attention to; to warn of | |
| 土地 土地 | land; soil; territory | |
| 醒 醒 | to wake up; to be awake; to become aware; to sober up; to come to | |
| 的确 的確 | really; indeed | |
| 传统 傳統 | tradition; traditional; convention; conventional | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 政治 政治 | politics; political | |
| 冲 沖 | (of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse; to rinse; to flush; to develop (a film); to rise in the air; to clash; to collide with | |
| 反 反 | contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 切 phonetic system | |
| 或许 或許 | perhaps; maybe | |
| 共 共 | common; general; to share; together; total; altogether; abbr. for 共产党, Communist party |