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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| 身上 身上 | on the body; at hand; among | |
| 们 們 | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals | |
| 早 早 | early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely | |
| 坐 坐 | surname Zuo | |
| 学校 學校 | school | |
| 穿 穿 | to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread | |
| 喝 喝 | to shout | |
| 门 門 | gate; door; gateway; doorway; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy); classifier for large guns; classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology; (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) | |
| 男人 男人 | a man; a male; men | |
| 路 路 | road; journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind | |
| 站 站 | station; to stand; to halt; to stop; branch of a company or organization; website | |
| 帮 幫 | to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society | |
| 女人 女人 | woman | |
| 送 送 | to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with | |
| 电话 電話 | telephone; phone call; phone number | |
| 您 您 | you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你) | |
| 进 進 | to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound | |
| 水 水 | water; river; liquid; beverage; additional charges or income; (of clothes) classifier for number of washes | |
| 先 先 | early; prior; former; in advance; first | |
| 正 正 | first month of the lunar year | |
| 高 高 | high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific) | |
| 拿 㧱 | to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把: to mark the following noun as a direct object) | |
| 住 住 | to live; to dwell; to stay; to reside; to stop; (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt) | |
| 放 放 | to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks) | |
| 行 行 | row; line; commercial firm; line of business; profession; to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column | |
| 老 老 | prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough | |
| 岁 歲 | classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests) | |
| 最后 最後 | final; last; finally; ultimate | |
| 出来 出來 | to come out; to appear; to arise | |
| 地方 地方 | region; regional (away from the central administration); local | |
| 告诉 告訴 | to press charges; to file a complaint | |
| 问 問 | to ask; to inquire | |
| 买 買 | to buy; to purchase | |
| 一样 一樣 | same; like; equal to; the same as; just like | |
| 三 三 | three; 3 | |
| 回 迴 | to circle; to go back; to turn around; to answer; to return; to revolve; Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); time; classifier for acts of a play; section or chapter (of a classic book) | |
| 钱 錢 | coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两 | |
| 别 別 | to leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish; (bound form) other; another; different; don't ...!; to fasten with a pin or clip; to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement); (noun suffix) category (e.g. 性别, 派别) | |
| 这里 這裡 | here | |
| 孩子 孩子 | child | |
| 叫 叫 | to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood) | |
| 开 開 | to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文; abbr. for 开本, book format | |
| 听 听 | smile (archaic) | |
| 找到 找到 | to find | |
| 车 車 | war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess); rook (in chess) | |
| 几 几 | small table | |
| 起 起 | to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group | |
| 起来 起來 | to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qǐ lái] | |
| 看到 看到 | to see | |
| 觉得 覺得 | to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc) |