24 City 2008
二十四城记
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apartment complex, director Jia Zhangke interviews various people affiliated with it about their experiences.
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Vocabulary
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| 专门 專門 | specialist; specialized; customized | |
| 及时 及時 | timely; at the right time; promptly; without delay | |
| 搬 搬 | to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately | |
| 适应 適應 | to adapt; to fit; to suit | |
| 生产 生產 | to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child | |
| 主任 主任 | director; head | |
| 商业 商業 | business; trade; commerce | |
| 上去 上去 | to go up | |
| 桥 橋 | bridge | |
| 存 存 | to exist; to deposit; to store; to keep; to survive | |
| 生意 生意 | life force; vitality | |
| 印象 印象 | impression (sth that stays in one's mind); a memory | |
| 费 費 | to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses | |
| 赶紧 趕緊 | hurriedly; without delay | |
| 发出 發出 | to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch; to produce (a sound); to let out (a laugh) | |
| 反正 反正 | anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side | |
| 员工 員工 | staff; personnel; employee | |
| 资金 資金 | funds; capital | |
| 交流 交流 | to exchange; exchange; communication; interaction; to have social contact (with sb) | |
| 退 退 | to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline | |
| 简直 簡直 | simply; really | |
| 旧 舊 | old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age) | |
| 钟 鐘 | clock; o'clock; time as measured in hours and minutes; bell | |
| 建 建 | to establish; to found; to set up; to build; to construct | |
| 慢慢 慢慢 | slowly | |
| 奇怪 奇怪 | strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled | |
| 周围 周圍 | environs; surroundings; periphery | |
| 合 合 | 100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗 | |
| 文化 文化 | culture; civilization; cultural | |
| 顿 頓 | to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal | |
| 演 演 | to develop; to evolve; to practice; to perform; to play; to act | |
| 大概 大概 | roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea | |
| 紧 緊 | tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten | |
| 制造 製造 | to manufacture; to make | |
| 世纪 世紀 | century | |
| 团 團 | round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke) | |
| 设备 設備 | equipment; facilities; installations | |
| 配 配 | to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate | |
| 各种 各種 | every kind of; all kinds of; various | |
| 抓住 抓住 | to grab hold of; to capture | |
| 麻烦 麻煩 | trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble | |
| 调 調 | to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody | |
| 姑娘 姑娘 | girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old) | |
| 期 朞 | a period of time; phase; stage; classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study; time; term; period; to hope; Taiwan pr. [qí] | |
| 宣布 宣佈 | to declare; to announce; to proclaim | |
| 程度 程度 | degree; level; extent | |
| 胜利 勝利 | victory | |
| 领导 領導 | lead; leading; to lead; leadership; leader | |
| 年代 年代 | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period | |
| 系 係 | to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary) |