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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| 逃奔 逃奔 | to run away to; to flee | |
| 临死 臨死 | facing death; at death's door | |
| 算命 算命 | fortune-telling; to tell fortune | |
| 公审 公審 | public trial (in a court of law) | |
| 恶霸 惡霸 | evil tyrant | |
| 验明正身 驗明正身 | to identify; to verify sb's identity; identification | |
| 刑场 刑場 | execution ground | |
| 镜框 鏡框 | picture frame; spectacle frame | |
| 年产 年產 | annual production | |
| 高炉 高爐 | blast furnace | |
| 不分昼夜 不分晝夜 | day and night; round-the-clock | |
| 铁丝 鐵絲 | iron wire; subway enthusiast; railway enthusiast | |
| 顾家 顧家 | to take care of one's family | |
| 护着 護著 | to protect; to guard; to shield | |
| 庆功 慶功 | to celebrate a heroic deed | |
| 茅坑 茅坑 | latrine pit; latrine | |
| 吉普车 吉普車 | jeep (military vehicle) (loanword) | |
| 塌下 塌下 | to collapse | |
| 帝王将相 帝王將相 | 帝: supreme ruler, emperor; god · 王: king, ruler; royal; surname · 将: will, going to, future; general · 相: mutual, reciprocal, each other | |
| 粉刷 粉刷 | to paint; to whitewash; emulsion; plaster | |
| 澡堂 澡堂 | public baths | |
| 命苦 命苦 | to be born under an ill star | |
| 揪出 揪出 | to uncover; to ferret out (the culprit) | |
| 划清 劃清 | to make a clear distinction; to differentiate clearly | |
| 当权派 當權派 | persons or faction in authority | |
| 嚷嚷 嚷嚷 | to argue noisily; to shout; to make widely known; to reproach | |
| 夺权 奪權 | to seize power | |
| 批斗 批鬥 | to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution) | |
| 顺嘴 順嘴 | to read smoothly (of text); to blurt out (without thinking); to suit one's taste (of food) | |
| 勾人 勾人 | sexy; seductive | |
| 聋哑 聾啞 | deaf and dumb | |
| 霞 霞 | rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset | |
| 狠心 狠心 | callous; heartless; to resolve (to do sth); firm resolve (as in 心) | |
| 馒头 饅頭 | steamed roll; steamed bun; steamed bread | |
| 反动 反動 | reaction; reactionary | |
| 待会儿 待會兒 | in a moment; later; also pr. [dāi huǐ r] or [dāi hui r] | |
| 老乡 老鄉 | fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown | |
| 踏实 踏實 | firmly-based; steady; steadfast; to have peace of mind; free from anxiety; Taiwan pr. [tà shí] | |
| 觉悟 覺悟 | to come to understand; to realize; consciousness; awareness; Buddhist enlightenment (Sanskrit: cittotpāda) | |
| 母子 母子 | mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest | |
| 镇压 鎮壓 | suppression; repression; to suppress; to put down; to quell | |
| 吉利 吉利 | Geely, Chinese car make | |
| 一路上 一路上 | along the way; the whole way; (fig.) the whole time | |
| 免得 免得 | so as not to; so as to avoid | |
| 氧气 氧氣 | oxygen | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 醋 醋 | vinegar; jealousy (in love rivalry) | |
| 往后 往後 | from now on; in the future; time to come | |
| 壶 壺 | pot; classifier for bottled liquid | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter |