Yellow Earth 1984
黄土地
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.
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Vocabulary
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| 搜集 蒐集 | to gather; to collect | |
| 迎 迎 | to welcome; to meet; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties); to meet face to face | |
| 鹅 鵝 | goose | |
| 心意 心意 | intention; regard; kindly feelings | |
| 当真 當真 | to take seriously; serious; No joking, really! | |
| 卧 臥 | to lie; to crouch | |
| 舔 舔 | to lick; to lap | |
| 出身 出身 | to be born of; to come from; family background; class origin | |
| 裹 裹 | to wrap around; bundle; parcel; package; to press into service; to pressgang; to make off with (sth) | |
| 流血 流血 | to bleed; to shed blood | |
| 乐意 樂意 | to be willing to do sth; to be ready to do sth; to be happy to do sth; content; satisfied | |
| 棉花 棉花 | cotton | |
| 席 席 | woven mat; seat; banquet; place in a democratic assembly; classifier for banquets, conversations etc | |
| 拦 攔 | to block sb's path; to obstruct; to flag down (a taxi) | |
| 担 擔 | to undertake; to carry; to shoulder; to take responsibility | |
| 规矩 規矩 | lit. compass and set square; fig. established standard; rule; customs; practices; fig. upright and honest; well-behaved | |
| 撤 撤 | to remove; to take away | |
| 上场 上場 | on stage; to go on stage; to take the field | |
| 爹 爹 | dad | |
| 依 依 | to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to; in the light of | |
| 粘 粘 | to glue; to paste; to adhere; to stick to | |
| 寻 尋 | to search; to look for; to seek | |
| 伴 伴 | partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany | |
| 吼 吼 | to roar; to howl; to shriek; roar or howl of an animal; bellow of rage | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 穿着 穿著 | attire; clothes; dress | |
| 革命 革命 | to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) | |
| 尿 尿 | to urinate; urine | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 狼 狼 | wolf | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 凑数 湊數 | to serve as a stopgap; to make up a shortfall in the number of people | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 同行 同行 | person of the same profession; of the same trade, occupation or industry | Xiehouyu |
| 庄稼人 莊稼人 | (coll.) farmer | Colloquialism |
| 兴许 興許 | (coll.) perhaps | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 公家 公家 | the public; the state; society; the public purse | |
| 婆姨 婆姨 | (dialect) wife; married woman | |
| 酸曲 酸曲 | love song |