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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| 俗 俗 | custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular | |
| 迎 迎 | to welcome; to meet; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties); to meet face to face | |
| 打招呼 打招呼 | to greet sb by word or action; to give prior notice | |
| 厌倦 厭倦 | to be weary of; to be fed up with; to be bored with | |
| 手腕 手腕 | wrist; trickery; finesse; ability; skill | |
| 前线 前線 | front line; military front; workface; cutting edge | |
| 何处 何處 | whence; where | |
| 编号 編號 | to number; numbering; serial number | |
| 栏 欄 | fence; railing; hurdle; column or box (of text or other data) | |
| 来回 來回 | to make a round trip; return journey; back and forth; to and fro; repeatedly | |
| 召集 召集 | to convene; to gather | |
| 压抑 壓抑 | to constrain or repress emotions; oppressive; stifling; depressing; repression | |
| 同伴 同伴 | companion; comrade; fellow | |
| 乐意 樂意 | to be willing to do sth; to be ready to do sth; to be happy to do sth; content; satisfied | |
| 砖 磚 | brick | |
| 制服 制服 | to subdue; to check; to bring under control; (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status; uniform (army, party, school etc); livery (for company employees) | |
| 临 臨 | to face; to overlook; to arrive; to be (just) about to; just before | |
| 故 故 | happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead | |
| 壳 殼 | shell; carapace; crust (earth's crust etc); also pr. [ké] | |
| 钢 鋼 | steel | |
| 部署 部署 | to dispose; to deploy; deployment | |
| 凤凰 鳳凰 | Fenghuang County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 州 | |
| 反击 反擊 | to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack | |
| 困境 困境 | predicament; plight | |
| 押 押 | to mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody; to escort and protect; (literary) to sign | |
| 缠 纏 | to wind around; to wrap round; to coil; tangle; to involve; to bother; to annoy | |
| 指望 指望 | to count on; to hope for; prospect; hope | |
| 呵 呵 | expel breath; my goodness | |
| 撤 撤 | to remove; to take away | |
| 晃 㨪 | to dazzle; to flash past | |
| 片子 片子 | film; movie; film reel; phonograph record; X-ray image | |
| 催 催 | to urge; to press; to prompt; to rush sb; to hasten sth; to expedite | |
| 穿过 穿過 | to pass through | |
| 口味 口味 | a person's preferences; tastes (in food); flavor | |
| 化妆 化妝 | to put on makeup | |
| 拍卖 拍賣 | to auction; auction sale; to sell at a reduced price | |
| 攻 攻 | to attack; to accuse; to study | |
| 宗 宗 | school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 发型 髮型 | hairstyle; coiffure; hairdo | |
| 相对 相對 | relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart | |
| 甩 甩 | to throw; to fling; to swing; to leave behind; to throw off; to dump (sb) | |
| 钥匙 鑰匙 | key | |
| 蛮 蠻 | barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless | |
| 惊讶 驚訝 | amazed; astonished; to surprise; amazing; astonishment; awe | |
| 置 置 | to install; to place; to put; to buy | |
| 穿着 穿著 | attire; clothes; dress | |
| 斗 斗 | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 | |
| 金属 金屬 | metal |