The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985
童年往事
An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 奋斗 奮鬥 | to strive; to struggle | |
| 大陆 大陸 | mainland China (reference to the PRC) | |
| 笨 笨 | stupid; foolish; silly; slow-witted; clumsy | |
| 县 縣 | county | |
| 隔 隔 | to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of | |
| 遇见 遇見 | to meet | |
| 运气 運氣 | luck (good or bad) | |
| 划 划 | to row; to paddle; profitable; worth (the effort); it pays (to do sth) | |
| 寄 寄 | to send; to mail; to entrust; to depend on; to attach oneself to; to live (in a house); to lodge; foster (son etc) | |
| 充分 充分 | ample; sufficient; adequate; full; fully; to the full | |
| 追求 追求 | to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after; to woo | |
| 不然 不然 | not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? | |
| 一致 一致 | unanimous; identical (views or opinions) | |
| 发挥 發揮 | to display; to exhibit; to bring out implicit or innate qualities; to express (a thought or moral); to develop (an idea); to elaborate (on a theme) | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 替 替 | to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for | |
| 官 官 | government official; governmental; official; public; organ of the body | |
| 赢得 贏得 | to win; to gain | |
| 毕业 畢業 | graduation; to graduate; to finish school | |
| 安 安 | (bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health; content; satisfied (as in 安于); to place (sb) in a suitable position (job); to install; to fix; to fit; to bring (a charge against sb); to harbor (certain intentions); ampere (abbr. for 培) | |
| 嗯 嗯 | (a groaning sound) | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 遇到 遇到 | to meet; to run into; to come across | |
| 总统 總統 | president (of a country) | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 作为 作為 | one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 死人 死人 | dead person; (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen | Colloquialism |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 台北 臺北 | Taipei, capital of Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 民国 民國 | Republic of China (1912-1949); used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911) | Proper Noun |
| 金门 金門 | Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan; Jinmen county in Quanzhou, Fujian, PRC | Proper Noun |
| 广东省 廣東省 | Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou | Proper Noun |
| 台中市 臺中市 | Taichung, a city in central Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 圣经 聖經 | the Confucian classics; (Christianity, Judaism) the holy scriptures | Proper Noun |
| 湾 灣 | bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream | |
| 本台 本臺 | this radio station | |
| 健儿 健兒 | top athlete; heroic warrior | |
| 耶 耶 | used in transliteration | |
| 有空 有空 | to have time (to do sth) | |
| 兰 蘭 | orchid; elegant, graceful | |
| 跳过 跳過 | to jump over; to skip (a step, chapter etc) | |
| 抗日 抗日 | to resist Japan (esp. during WW2); anti-Japanese (esp. wartime activities) | |
| 来台 來台 | to come to Taiwan | |
| 包银 包銀 | contracted payment (esp. actors' salary in former times) | |
| 说死 說死 | to say definitely; to commit (to a proposition) | |
| 乱讲 亂講 | to talk nonsense; nonsense! | |
| 前世 前世 | previous generations; previous incarnation (Buddhism) |