The Wedding Banquet 1993
喜宴
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
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Vocabulary
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| 团 團 | round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke) | |
| 猪 豬 | hog; pig; swine | |
| 事实上 事實上 | in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto | |
| 思想 思想 | thought; thinking; idea; ideology | |
| 麻烦 麻煩 | trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble | |
| 艺术 藝術 | art | |
| 宣布 宣佈 | to declare; to announce; to proclaim | |
| 系 係 | to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary) | |
| 准 准 | to allow; to grant; in accordance with; in the light of | |
| 外面 外面 | outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance | |
| 空 空 | empty; air; sky; in vain | |
| 值 值 | value; (to be) worth; to happen to; to be on duty | |
| 朝 朝 | abbr. for 朝鲜 Korea | |
| 直到 直到 | until | |
| 完美 完美 | perfect | |
| 感受 感受 | to sense; perception; to feel (through the senses); to experience; a feeling; an impression; an experience | |
| 感情 感情 | emotion; sentiment; affection; feelings between two persons | |
| 上面 上面 | on top of; above-mentioned; also pr. [shàng mian] | |
| 乱 亂 | in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary | |
| 危险 危險 | danger; dangerous | |
| 祝 祝 | to pray for; to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc); person who invokes the spirits during sacrificial ceremonies | |
| 老板 老闆 | boss; business proprietor | |
| 环境 環境 | environment; circumstances; surroundings; ambient | |
| 照 炤 | according to; in accordance with; to shine; to illuminate; to reflect; to look at (one's reflection); to take (a photo); photo; as requested; as before | |
| 对方 對方 | the other person; the other side; the other party | |
| 难道 難道 | don't tell me ...; could it be that...? | |
| 反应 反應 | to react; to respond; reaction; response; reply; chemical reaction | |
| 久 久 | (long) time; (long) duration of time | |
| 跳 跳 | to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate | |
| 本来 本來 | original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course | |
| 挂 掛 | to hang or suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried or concerned; to make a phone call (dialect); to register or record; classifier for sets or clusters of objects; (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) | |
| 紧张 緊張 | nervous; keyed up; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce | |
| 结婚 結婚 | to marry; to get married | |
| 由于 由於 | due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because | |
| 失去 失去 | to lose | |
| 责任 責任 | responsibility; blame; duty | |
| 自然 自然 | nature; natural; naturally | |
| 幸福 幸福 | happiness; happy; blessed | |
| 敢 敢 | to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture | |
| 安排 安排 | to arrange; to plan; to set up; arrangements; plans | |
| 力量 力量 | power; force; strength | |
| 父母 父母 | father and mother; parents | |
| 至少 至少 | at least; (to say the) least | |
| 谈 談 | to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss | |
| 发展 發展 | development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand | |
| 下去 下去 | to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw | |
| 金 金 | gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 | |
| 意义 意義 | sense; meaning; significance; importance | |
| 光 光 | light; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered | |
| 约 約 | to weigh in a balance or on a scale |