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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| 书 書 | abbr. for 书经 | |
| 晚 晚 | evening; night; late | |
| 昨天 昨天 | yesterday | |
| 回家 回家 | to return home | |
| 跑 跑 | (of an animal) to paw (the ground) | |
| 哪 哪 | how; which | |
| 间 間 | between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms | |
| 电影 電影 | movie; film | |
| 难 難 | difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good | |
| 少 少 | few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom | |
| 错 錯 | mistake; wrong; bad; interlocking; complex; to grind; to polish; to alternate; to stagger; to miss; to let slip; to evade; to inlay with gold or silver | |
| 妈妈 媽媽 | mama; mommy; mother | |
| 多少 多少 | number; amount; somewhat | |
| 学 學 | to learn; to study; to imitate; science; -ology | |
| 谢谢 謝謝 | to thank; thanks; thank you | |
| 妈 媽 | ma; mom; mother | |
| 晚上 晚上 | evening; night; in the evening | |
| 外 外 | outside; in addition; foreign; external | |
| 四 四 | four; 4 | |
| 回来 回來 | to return; to come back | |
| 明天 明天 | tomorrow | |
| 睡 睡 | to sleep; to lie down | |
| 们 們 | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals | |
| 早 早 | early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely | |
| 坐 坐 | surname Zuo | |
| 穿 穿 | to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread | |
| 学校 學校 | school | |
| 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) | |
| 正在 正在 | just at (that time); right in (that place); right in the middle of (doing sth) | |
| 玩 玩 | to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wàn]); to keep sth for entertainment | |
| 男人 男人 | a man; a male; men | |
| 站 站 | station; to stand; to halt; to stop; branch of a company or organization; website | |
| 别人 別人 | other people; others; other person | |
| 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 | |
| 小时 小時 | hour | |
| 女人 女人 | woman | |
| 笑 咲 | to laugh; to smile; to laugh at | |
| 分 分 | to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad); (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 局); fraction; one tenth (of certain units); unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm; minute (unit of time); minute (angular measurement unit); a point (in sports or games); 0.01 yuan (unit of money) | |
| 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) | |
| 写 寫 | to write | |
| 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 | |
| 准备 準備 | preparation; to prepare; to intend; to be about to; reserve (fund) | |
| 那些 那些 | those | |
| 得到 得到 | to get; to obtain; to receive | |
| 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) |