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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| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 马车 馬車 | cart; chariot; carriage; buggy | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 特意 特意 | specially; intentionally | |
| 长久 長久 | (for a) long time | |
| 织 織 | to weave | |
| 心脏病 心臟病 | heart disease | |
| 赶上 趕上 | to keep up with; to catch up with; to overtake; to chance upon; in time for | |
| 误 誤 | mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly | |
| 吊 吊 | to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person | |
| 捐 捐 | to relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy | |
| 路过 路過 | to pass by or through | |
| 刮 刮 | to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort | |
| 井 井 | a well; neat; orderly | |
| 远远 遠遠 | distant; by far | |
| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 野 埜 | field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral | |
| 妇女 婦女 | woman | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 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) | |
| 端 端 | end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth level with both hands; to carry; regular | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 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 | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 因 囙 | cause; reason; because | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning | |
| 为难 為難 | to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage) | Xiehouyu |
| 一路 一路 | the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind | Xiehouyu |
| 收拾 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 娣 娣 | younger sister, sister-in-law | |
| 骆 駱 | a white horse with black mane; a camel | |
| 锔 鋦 | curium | |
| 炕 匟 | the brick-bed in northern China | |
| 棺 棺 | coffin | |
| 拖拉机 拖拉機 | tractor | |
| 劳力 勞力 | labor; able-bodied worker; laborer; work force | |
| 碴 碴 | chipped edge of a container | |
| 青花 青花 | blue and white (porcelain) | |
| 馅 餡 | filling, stuffing; secret | |
| 冬眠 冬眠 | to hibernate; hibernation | |
| 长途电话 長途電話 | long-distance phone call | |
| 怎么搞的 怎麼搞的 | How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up? | |
| 上供 上供 | to make offerings (to gods or ancestors); to offer gifts to superiors in order to win their favor | |
| 谈恋爱 談戀愛 | to be in a romantic relationship; to go steady; to be dating | |
| 婆家 婆家 | husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into) | |
| 烙饼 烙餅 | pancake; flat bread; griddle cake |