The Road Home 1999
我的父亲母亲
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
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Vocabulary
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| 春天 春天 | spring (season) | |
| 商量 商量 | to consult; to talk over; to discuss | |
| 姓 姓 | family name; surname; to be surnamed | |
| 咱 偺 | see 咱 | |
| 小时候 小時候 | in one's childhood | |
| 碗 㼝 | bowl; cup | |
| 好事 好事 | good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead | |
| 理想 理想 | an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect | |
| 绿 綠 | green; (slang) (derived from 绿帽子) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend) | |
| 放心 放心 | to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease | |
| 的话 的話 | if (coming after a conditional clause) | |
| 早就 早就 | already at an earlier time | |
| 答应 答應 | to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise | |
| 合适 合適 | suitable; fitting; appropriate | |
| 喊 喊 | to yell; to shout; to call out for (a person) | |
| 差不多 差不多 | almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad | |
| 方便 方便 | convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself | |
| 雪 雪 | snow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc) | |
| 吹 吹 | to blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast; to puff; to boast; to brag; to end in failure; to fall through | |
| 千 千 | thousand | |
| 亮 亮 | bright; clear; resonant; to shine; to show; to reveal | |
| 篇 篇 | sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article | |
| 急 急 | urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious | |
| 照顾 照顧 | to take care of; to show consideration; to attend to; to look after | |
| 想起 想起 | to recall; to think of; to call to mind | |
| 词 詞 | word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 | |
| 借 借 | to lend; to borrow; by means of; to take (an opportunity) | |
| 不行 不行 | won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable | |
| 想法 想法 | way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth) | |
| 怎么办 怎麼辦 | what's to be done | |
| 不够 不夠 | not enough; insufficient; inadequate | |
| 咱们 咱們 | we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [zá men] | |
| 打算 打算 | to plan; to intend; to calculate; plan; intention; calculation | |
| 普通 普通 | common; ordinary; general; average | |
| 实在 實在 | really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality | |
| 心情 心情 | mood; frame of mind | |
| 听说 聽說 | to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking | |
| 习惯 習慣 | habit; custom; usual practice; to be used to | |
| 街 街 | street | |
| 心里 心裡 | chest; heart; mind | |
| 取 取 | to take; to get; to choose; to fetch | |
| 日子 日子 | day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life | |
| 留下 留下 | to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain; to keep; not to let (sb) go | |
| 节 節 | joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour) | |
| 实现 實現 | to achieve; to implement; to realize; to bring about | |
| 样子 樣子 | appearance; manner; pattern; model | |
| 就要 就要 | will; shall; to be going to | |
| 改 改 | to change; to alter; to transform; to correct | |
| 自由 自由 | freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted | |
| 后来 後來 | afterwards; later; newly arrived |