The Story of Qiu Ju 1992
秋菊打官司
When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.
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Vocabulary
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| 保障 保障 | to ensure; to guarantee; to safeguard | |
| 告 告 | to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 案件 案件 | case; instance | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 断子绝孙 斷子絕孫 | to die without progeny; (offensive) may you die childless; may you be the last of your family line | Xiehouyu |
| 笨嘴笨舌 笨嘴笨舌 | clumsy in speaking; awkward; inarticulate | Xiehouyu |
| 平白无故 平白無故 | (idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 整治 整治 | to bring under control; to regulate; to restore to good condition; (coll.) to fix (a person); to prepare (a meal etc) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 复议 復議 | to reconsider | |
| 棉袄 棉襖 | cotton-padded jacket | |
| 自我批评 自我批評 | self-criticism | |
| 烤火 烤火 | to warm oneself at a fire | |
| 诉讼法 訴訟法 | procedural law | |
| 误工 誤工 | to be late for or absent from work; to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work; loss of working time; a holdup | |
| 捎来 捎來 | to bring sth to sb (news etc) | |
| 代销 代銷 | to sell as agent; to sell on commission (e.g. insurance policies); proxy sale (of stocks) | |
| 杆子 杆子 | pole | |
| 公家 公家 | the public; the state; society; the public purse | |
| 撑腰 撐腰 | to support; to brace | |
| 全权 全權 | full powers; total authority; plenipotentiary powers | |
| 难产 難產 | difficult birth; (fig.) difficult to achieve | |
| 长命百岁 長命百歲 | 长: long; length; excel in; leader · 命: life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction · 百: one hundred; numerous, many · 岁: year; age; harvest | |
| 兽医 獸醫 | veterinarian; veterinary surgeon; vet | |
| 章子 章子 | seal; stamp | |
| 端饭 端飯 | to serve (food) | |
| 说理 說理 | to reason; to argue logically | |
| 扭打 扭打 | to wrestle; to grapple; to scuffle | |
| 软组织 軟組織 | soft tissue | |
| 水肿 水腫 | (medicine) to suffer from edema (dropsy) | |
| 窝子 窩子 | lair; den; stronghold | |
| 包谷 包穀 | (dialect) corn; maize | |
| 撬开 撬開 | to pry open; to lever open | |
| 无期徒刑 無期徒刑 | life imprisonment | |
| 顺嘴 順嘴 | to read smoothly (of text); to blurt out (without thinking); to suit one's taste (of food) | |
| 养母 養母 | foster mother; adoptive mother | |
| 对号入座 對號入座 | to take one's seat according to the ticket number; (fig.) to put (things or people) in their right place; to take a general comment as a personal attack |