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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| 为 為 | as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) | |
| 可以 可以 | can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 下不来 下不來 | awkward; embarrassed; cannot be accomplished | Xiehouyu |
| 不在话下 不在話下 | to be nothing difficult; to be a cinch | Xiehouyu |
| 大喜 大喜 | exultation | Xiehouyu |
| 想不开 想不開 | cannot figure out; to be unable to take a lighter view; to take things too hard; to be depressed; to fret over trifles | Xiehouyu |
| 慢慢来 慢慢來 | take your time; take it easy | Xiehouyu |
| 好听 好聽 | pleasant to hear | Xiehouyu |
| 好吃 好吃 | to be fond of eating; to be gluttonous | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 吃的 吃的 | (coll.) food | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 不行了 不行了 | (coll.) on the point of death; dying | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 今儿 今兒 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 有病 有病 | to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head | Colloquialism |
| 打的 打的 | (coll.) to take a taxi; to go by taxi | Colloquialism |
| 帮子 幫子 | outer (of cabbage etc); upper (of a shoe); (coll.) group; gang | Colloquialism |
| 今儿个 今兒個 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 这会儿 這會兒 | (coll.) now; this moment; also pr. [zhè huǐ r] | Colloquialism |
| 爷爷 爺爺 | (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather | Colloquialism |
| 奶奶 奶奶 | (informal) grandma (paternal grandmother); (respectful) mistress of the house; (coll.) boobies; breasts | Colloquialism |
| 肉 肉 | meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130 | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 台湾 台灣 | variant of | Proper Noun |
| 百里 百里 | two-character surname Baili | Proper Noun |
| 回回 回回 | (old) the Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); a Hui person | Proper Noun |
| 毛泽东 毛澤東 | Mao Zedong (1893-1976), leader of the Chinese Communist Party 1935-1976 | Proper Noun |
| 英国 英國 | United Kingdom (UK); Britain | Proper Noun |
| 美国 美國 | United States; USA; US | Proper Noun |
| 共产党 共產黨 | Communist Party | Proper Noun |
| 谁知道 誰知道 | God knows...; Who would have imagined...? | |
| 喜 喜 | like, love, enjoy; joyful thing | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 没事 沒事 | it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... |