To Live

To Live 1994

活着 huózhe

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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4.06 Intermediate Director Zhang Yimou 🍅 87%

Cast

Ge You Ge You Xu Fugui Gong Li Gong Li Xu Jiazhen Niu Ben Niu Ben Town Chief Guo Tao Guo Tao Chunsheng Jiang Wu Jiang Wu Wan Erxi Ni Dahong Ni Dahong Long'er Liu Tianchi Liu Tianchi Xu Fengxia Zhang Lu Zhang Lu Young Fengxia Dong Fei Dong Fei Xu Youqing Huang Zongluo Huang Zongluo Fugui's Dad

Vocabulary

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尽 儘 jǐn to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to HSK 6
清 清 qīng (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) HSK 6
哇 哇 wā Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting HSK 6
入 入 rù to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 HSK 6
啦 啦 lā (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
货真价实 貨真價實 huò zhēn - jià shí lit. genuine goods at fair prices (idiom); fig. genuine; real; true Idiom ∼HSK 5
混蛋 混蛋 hún dàn scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
老样子 老樣子 lǎo yàng zi old situation; things as they were Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
丢人现眼 丟人現眼 diū rén xiàn yǎn to make an exhibition of oneself; to be a disgrace Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
一路 一路 yī lù the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind Xiehouyu HSK 5
仨 仨 sā (coll.) three (cannot be followed by a measure word) Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
好儿 好兒 hǎo rén good fellow; good chap (colloquial term of address) Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
慌 慌 huāng to get panicky; to lose one's head; (coll.) (after 得) unbearably; terribly Colloquialism HSK 5
收拾 收拾 shōu shi to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 5
凤 鳳 Fèng male phoenix; symbol of joy ∼HSK 5
珍 珍 zhēn precious, valuable, rare ∼HSK 5
帐 帳 zhàng tent; account ∼HSK 5
唱戏 唱戲 chàng xì to perform in opera ∼HSK 5
工人阶级 工人階級 gōng rén jiē jí working class ∼HSK 5
毙 斃 bì kill; die violent death ∼HSK 5
拦住 攔住 lán zhù to stop; to bar the way ∼HSK 5
么 麼 me interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) ∼HSK 5
撞死 撞死 zhuàng sǐ to knock down and kill (with a car, train etc) ∼HSK 5
斌 斌 bīn refined, having both appearance ∼HSK 5
老爷 老爺 lǎo ye master, sir ∼HSK 5
宵 宵 xiāo night, evening, dark ∼HSK 5
宿 㝛 sù stop, rest, lodge, stay overnight; constellation ∼HSK 5
贫民 貧民 pín mín poor people ∼HSK 5
潘 潘 Pān surname; water in which rice has been rinsed; a river that flows into the Han ∼HSK 5
府上 府上 fǔ shàng (courteous) home; residence (not one's own) ∼HSK 5
失陪 失陪 shī péi Excuse me, I must be leaving now. ∼HSK 5
剁 剁 duò chop by pounding, mince, hash ∼HSK 5
大炮 大砲 dà pào big gun; cannon; artillery; one who talks big ∼HSK 5
看戏 看戲 kàn xì to watch a play; to watch passively (i.e. from the sidelines, from the crowd) ∼HSK 5
驴 驢 lǘ donkey, ass ∼HSK 5
恒 恆 Héng constant, regular, persistent ∼HSK 5
畜生 畜生 chù sheng domestic animal; brute; bastard ∼HSK 5
纳闷 納悶 nà mèn puzzled; bewildered ∼HSK 5
嚓 嚓 cā a cracking or snapping sound ∼HSK 5
人命 人命 rén mìng human life ∼HSK 5
捣 搗 dǎo pound, mash ∼HSK 5
市价 市價 shì jià market value ∼HSK 5
什么话 什麼話 shén yāo huà what kind of talk ∼HSK 5
赊 賒 shē buy and sell on credit, distant ∼HSK 5
两清 兩清 liǎng qīng to square accounts (between borrower and lender or between buyer and seller) ∼HSK 5
下辈子 下輩子 xià bèi zi the next life ∼HSK 5
祖 祖 Zǔ ancestor, forefather; grandfather ∼HSK 5
仲 仲 Zhòng middle brother; go between, mediator; surname ∼HSK 5
可恨 可恨 kě hèn hateful ∼HSK 5
冻死 凍死 dòng sǐ to freeze to death; to die off in winter ∼HSK 5