Youth 2017
芳华
A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.
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Vocabulary
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| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 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}) | |
| 万水千山 萬水千山 | ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey; a long and difficult road | Idiom |
| 不要脸 不要臉 | to have no sense of shame; shameless | Xiehouyu |
| 改行 改行 | to change profession | Xiehouyu |
| 拉倒 拉倒 | (coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go; to pull down | Xiehouyu |
| 完事 完事 | to be finished (with sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 下流 下流 | lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene | Xiehouyu |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 难过 難過 | to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult | Xiehouyu |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 海口 海口 | Haikou, prefecture-level city and capital of Hainan Province | Proper Noun |
| 万里 萬里 | Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician | Proper Noun |
| 所多 所多 | Soto | Proper Noun |
| 海南 海南 | Hainan Province, capital Haikou; Hainan Island in South China Sea; Hainan District of Wuhait City, Inner Mongolia; Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Qinghai Province | Proper Noun |
| 云南 雲南 | Yunnan Province, capital Kunming | Proper Noun |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 分队 分隊 | military platoon or squad | |
| 停下来 停下來 | to stop | |
| 不得 不得 | must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot | |
| 取回 取回 | to retrieve | |
| 拉练 拉練 | (military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc); (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas | |
| 今晚 今晚 | tonight | |
| 写信 寫信 | to write a letter | |
| 实 實 | real, true; honest, sincere | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 所有人 所有人 | everyone; owner | |
| 用完 用完 | used up; finished | |
| 万岁 萬歲 | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty; His Majesty | |
| 吹号 吹號 | to blow a brass instrument | |
| 急着 急著 | urgently | |
| 天啊 天啊 | good heavens!; oh my God! | |
| 一级 一級 | first class; category A | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 那种 那種 | that kind of | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? |