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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| 不 不 | no; not so; (bound form) not; un- | |
| 有 有 | to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 意 intentional) | |
| 你 你 | you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您) | |
| 在 在 | to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) | |
| 是 是 | to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion) | |
| 了 了 | (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) | |
| 我 我 | I; me; my | |
| 的 的 | of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute); (used to form a nominal expression); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); also pr. [dì] or [di] in poetry and songs | |
| 哟 喲 | Oh! (interjection indicating slight surprise); also pr. [yao1] | Interjection |
| 呦 呦 | Oh! (exclamation of dismay etc); used in | Interjection |
| 咧 咧 | used in; used in; used in | Interjection |
| 喽 嘍 | (bound form) subordinates in a gang of bandits | Interjection |
| 诶 誒 | variant of | Interjection |
| 咿 吚 | variant of | Onomatopoeia |
| 吃吃 吃吃 | (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc); sound of stammering | Onomatopoeia |