Under the Hawthorn Tree 2010
山楂树之恋
The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.
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Vocabulary
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| 必要 必要 | necessary; essential; indispensable; required | |
| 规定 規定 | to stipulate; to specify; to prescribe; to fix (a price); to set (a quota); regulations; rules; provisions; stipulations | |
| 困难 困難 | difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation | |
| 本来 本來 | original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course | |
| 值得 值得 | to be worth; to deserve | |
| 属于 屬於 | to be classified as; to belong to; to be part of | |
| 深 㴱 | deep (lit. and fig.) | |
| 训练 訓練 | to train; to drill; training | |
| 步 步 | a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process; situation | |
| 支 支 | to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions | |
| 敢 敢 | to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture | |
| 城 城 | city walls; city; town | |
| 父母 父母 | father and mother; parents | |
| 理解 理解 | to comprehend; to understand | |
| 至少 至少 | at least; (to say the) least | |
| 证明 證明 | proof; certificate; identification; testimonial; to prove; to testify; to confirm the truth of | |
| 父亲 父親 | father; also pr. [fù qin] | |
| 光 光 | light; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered | |
| 建议 建議 | to propose; to suggest; to recommend; proposal; suggestion; recommendation | |
| 好好 好好 | well; carefully; nicely; properly | |
| 到底 到底 | finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last | |
| 伤 傷 | to injure; injury; wound | |
| 报告 報告 | to inform; to report; to make known; report; speech; talk; lecture | |
| 容易 容易 | easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to | |
| 目标 目標 | target; goal; objective | |
| 里面 裡面 | inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] | |
| 个人 個人 | individual; personal; oneself | |
| 下来 下來 | to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders) | |
| 根本 根本 | fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all | |
| 保证 保證 | guarantee; to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard; to pledge | |
| 活 活 | to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | |
| 注意 注意 | to take note of; to pay attention to | |
| 表现 表現 | to show; to show off; to display; to manifest; expression; manifestation; show; display; performance (at work etc); behavior | |
| 消息 消息 | news; information | |
| 当然 當然 | only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 关系 關係 | relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 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}) | |
| 鸡飞蛋打 雞飛蛋打 | the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken; a dead loss (idiom) | Idiom |