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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| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 出尔反尔 出爾反爾 | old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word; to blow hot and cold; to contradict oneself; inconsistent | Xiehouyu |
| 来不及 來不及 | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 受不了 受不了 | unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 女同 女同 | a lesbian (coll.) | Colloquialism |
| 男同 男同 | gay guy (coll.) | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 孙 孫 | Sun (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 毛主席 毛主席 | Chairman Mao; Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader | Proper Noun |
| 上山下乡 上山下鄉 | to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers); forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals | Proper Noun |
| 毛泽东思想 毛澤東思想 | Mao Zedong Thought | Proper Noun |
| 抗日战争 抗日戰爭 | (China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) | Proper Noun |
| 毛主席语录 毛主席語錄 | Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, published from 1964 to about 1976 | Proper Noun |
| 列宁 列寧 | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 板鸭 板鴨 | (slang) Spain | Proper Noun |
| 放暑假 放暑假 | to be on summer vacation | |
| 坪 坪 | level ground; Japanese measure | |
| 冰糖 冰糖 | crystal sugar; rock candy | |
| 教导 教導 | to instruct; to teach; guidance; teaching | |
| 咱俩 咱倆 | the two of us | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 走资派 走資派 | capitalist roader (person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution) | |
| 魏 魏 | kingdom of Wei; surname | |
| 志向 志向 | ambition; goal; ideal; aspiration | |
| 花色 花色 | variety; design and color; suit (cards) | |
| 材 材 | material, stuff; timber; talent | |
| 不简单 不簡單 | not simple; rather complicated; remarkable; marvelous | |
| 手松 手鬆 | liberal with one's money; free-spending | |
| 柴油机 柴油機 | diesel engine | |
| 个例 個例 | specific example; rare instance | |
| 粗活 粗活 | unskilled labor; heavy manual work | |
| 归队 歸隊 | to return to one's unit; to go back to one's station in life | |
| 农夫 農夫 | peasant; farmer | |
| 公社 公社 | commune | |
| 导 導 | direct, guide, lead, conduct | |
| 叫醒 叫醒 | to awaken; to wake sb up; to rouse | |
| 烧伤 燒傷 | burn (injury) | |
| 什么人 什麼人 | what kind of person | |
| 信守 信守 | to abide by; to keep (promises etc) | |
| 一阵子 一陣子 | a while; a spell; a short time; a burst | |
| 低烧 低燒 | a low fever (up to 38°C) |