To Live 1994
活着
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
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Vocabulary
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| 每 每 | each; every | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 头一回 頭一回 | the first time; for the first time | Xiehouyu |
| 响当当 響噹噹 | resounding; loud; well known; famous | Xiehouyu |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 猫 貓 | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 里加 里加 | Riga, capital of Latvia | Proper Noun |
| 国民党 國民黨 | Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT); Nationalist Party | Proper Noun |
| 上汽 上汽 | abbr. for 上海汽車工業集團|上海汽车工业集团, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC) | Proper Noun |
| 拉拉 拉拉 | Lala, Philippines | Proper Noun |
| 好时 好時 | Hershey's (brand) | Proper Noun |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 小鸡 小雞 | chick | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 人名 人名 | personal name | |
| 喝酒 喝酒 | to drink (alcohol) | |
| 成了 成了 | to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do! | |
| 不该 不該 | should not; to owe nothing | |
| 生孩子 生孩子 | to give birth to a baby | |
| 男孩 男孩 | boy | |
| 实 實 | real, true; honest, sincere | |
| 成份 成份 | composition; make-up; ingredient; element; component; one's social status; same as 成分 | |
| 吃饱 吃飽 | to eat one's fill | |
| 养大 養大 | to raise (a child or animal) | |
| 收下 收下 | to accept; to receive | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 一更 一更 | first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old) | |
| 象 象 | elephant; ivory; figure, image | |
| 一句 一句 | a line of verse; a sentence | |
| 夫 夫 | man, male adult, husband; those | |
| 万岁 萬歲 | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty; His Majesty | |
| 山头 山頭 | mountain top | |
| 一遍 一遍 | one time (all the way through); once through | |
| 过得 過得 | How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad |