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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| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 多事 多事 | meddlesome; eventful | Xiehouyu |
| 不客气 不客氣 | you're welcome; don't mention it; impolite; rude; blunt | Xiehouyu |
| 好听 好聽 | pleasant to hear | Xiehouyu |
| 没关系 沒關係 | it doesn't matter | Xiehouyu |
| 好吃 好吃 | tasty; delicious | Xiehouyu |
| 好看 好看 | good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 不行了 不行了 | (coll.) on the point of death; dying | Colloquialism |
| 打的 打的 | (coll.) to take a taxi; to go by taxi | Colloquialism |
| 吃的 吃的 | (coll.) food | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 一块儿 一塊兒 | erhua variant of 一块; a piece; a chunk; (coll.) one yuan; one dollar | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 爸爸 爸爸 | (coll.) father; dad | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 回回 回回 | (old) the Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); a Hui person | Proper Noun |
| 广州 廣州 | Guangzhou, sub-provincial city and capital of Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 人大 人大 | Renmin University of China | Proper Noun |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 儿 兒 | son, child; KangXi radical 10 | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 今 今 | now, today, modern era | |
| 这就 這就 | immediately; at once | |
| 坏了 壞了 | shoot!; gosh!; oh, no!; (suffix) to the utmost | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 那天 那天 | that day; the other day | |
| 三十 三十 | thirty; 30 | |
| 不了 不了 | no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) | |
| 你妈 你媽 | (interjection) fuck you; (intensifier) fucking | |
| 教书 教書 | to teach (in a school) | |
| 东西南北 東西南北 | east west south north | |
| 事事 事事 | everything | |
| 在外 在外 | outer; excluded | |
| 老路 老路 | old road; familiar way; beaten track; conventional behavior | |
| 不在了 不在了 | to be dead; to have passed away | |
| 四十 四十 | forty; 40 | |
| 好几 好幾 | several; quite a few | |
| 十八 十八 | eighteen; 18 | |
| 二十 二十 | twenty; 20 | |
| 有了 有了 | I've got a solution!; to have a bun in the oven | |
| 天天 天天 | every day |