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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| 化 化 | to make into; to change into; -ization; to ... -ize; to transform; abbr. for 化学 | |
| 香 香 | fragrant; sweet smelling; aromatic; savory or appetizing; (to eat) with relish; (of sleep) sound; perfume or spice; joss or incense stick | |
| 对象 對象 | target; object; partner; boyfriend; girlfriend | |
| 板 板 | board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious | |
| 猪 豬 | hog; pig; swine | |
| 配 配 | to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate | |
| 龙 龍 | dragon; imperial | |
| 姑娘 姑娘 | girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old) | |
| 领导 領導 | lead; leading; to lead; leadership; leader | |
| 皮 皮 | leather; skin; fur; pico- (one trillionth); naughty | |
| 架 架 | to support; frame; rack; framework; classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc | |
| 破 破 | broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of | |
| 感情 感情 | emotion; sentiment; affection; feelings between two persons | |
| 救 捄 | to save; to assist; to rescue | |
| 火 火 | fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86 | |
| 牛 牛 | ox; cow; bull; newton (abbr. for 牛顿); (slang) awesome | |
| 跳 跳 | to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate | |
| 金 金 | gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 | |
| 光 光 | light; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered | |
| 好好 好好 | well; carefully; nicely; properly | |
| 线 線 | thread; string; wire; line; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | |
| 里面 裡面 | inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] | |
| 精神 精神 | spirit; mind; consciousness; thought; mental; psychological; essence; gist | |
| 马 馬 | horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 使 使 | to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 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 | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 已 已 | already; to stop; then; afterwards | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 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}) | |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 黄河 黃河 | Yellow River or Huang He | Proper Noun |
| 河东 河東 | Hedong district of Linyi city, Shandong | Proper Noun |
| 小米 小米 | Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010 | Proper Noun |
| 东海 東海 | East China Sea; East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography) | Proper Noun |
| 拉拉 拉拉 | Lala, Philippines | Proper Noun |
| 镢头 鐝頭 | (dialect) mattock; hoe | |
| 斧头 斧頭 | ax; hatchet | |
| 后生 後生 | young generation; youth; young man | |
| 叩头 叩頭 | to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground); also written | |
| 不得 不得 | must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot | |
| 成了 成了 | to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do! | |
| 孩 孩 | baby, child; children |