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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| 老乡 老鄉 | fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown | |
| 冷水 冷水 | cold water; unboiled water; fig. not yet ready (of plans) | |
| 要好 要好 | to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement | |
| 治病 治病 | to treat an illness | |
| 姑姑 姑姑 | paternal aunt | |
| 广阔 廣闊 | wide; vast | |
| 来往 來往 | to come and go; to have dealings with; to be in relation with | |
| 不至于 不至於 | unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as | |
| 往后 往後 | from now on; in the future; time to come | |
| 好不容易 好不容易 | with great difficulty; very difficult | |
| 热水 熱水 | hot water | |
| 病房 病房 | ward (of a hospital); sickroom | |
| 传出 傳出 | to transmit outwards; to disseminate; efferent (nerve) | |
| 水泥 水泥 | cement | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 误 誤 | mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 祖国 祖國 | motherland | |
| 咋 咋 | dialectal equivalent of 怎么 | |
| 沿着 沿著 | to go along; to follow | |
| 领袖 領袖 | leader | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 踩 跴 | to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 托 託 | to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee | |
| 档案 檔案 | file; record; archive | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 政策 政策 | policy | |
| 泡 泡 | puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names); classifier for urine or feces | |
| 党 黨 | party; association; club; society | |
| 为何 為何 | why | |
| 部队 部隊 | army; armed forces; troops; force; unit | |
| 学会 學會 | to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association | |
| 说实话 說實話 | to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 允许 允許 | to permit; to allow | |
| 镇 鎮 | to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 疯疯癫癫 瘋瘋癲癲 | deranged; erratic | Xiehouyu |
| 献身 獻身 | to commit one's energy to; to devote oneself to; to sacrifice one's life for; (coll.) (of a woman) to give one's virginity to | Colloquialism |