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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| 刻 刻 | quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals | |
| 花园 花園 | garden | |
| 自行车 自行車 | bicycle; bike | |
| 云 云 | (classical) to say | |
| 亿 億 | 100 million | |
| 小时候 小時候 | in one's childhood | |
| 熟 熟 | ripe; mature; thoroughly cooked; done; familiar; acquainted; experienced; skilled; (of sleep etc) deep; profound; also pr. [shóu] | |
| 夏天 夏天 | summer | |
| 好久 好久 | quite a while | |
| 懂得 懂得 | to understand; to know; to comprehend | |
| 蓝色 藍色 | blue (color) | |
| 比如说 比如說 | for example | |
| 不久 不久 | not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after | |
| 流行 流行 | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable | |
| 白色 白色 | white; fig. reactionary; anti-communist | |
| 绿 綠 | green; (slang) (derived from 绿帽子) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend) | |
| 道理 道理 | reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification | |
| 故意 故意 | deliberately; on purpose | |
| 角 角 | angle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) | |
| 单位 單位 | unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole); work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform) | |
| 同事 同事 | colleague; co-worker | |
| 收入 收入 | to take in; income; revenue | |
| 响 響 | echo; sound; noise; to make a sound; to sound; to ring; loud; classifier for noises | |
| 骑 騎 | (Tw) saddle horse; mounted soldier | |
| 早就 早就 | already at an earlier time | |
| 到处 到處 | everywhere | |
| 红色 紅色 | red (color); revolutionary | |
| 随便 隨便 | as one wishes; as one pleases; at random; negligent; casual; wanton | |
| 喊 喊 | to yell; to shout; to call out for (a person) | |
| 高中 高中 | senior high school; abbr. for 高级中学 | |
| 爬 爬 | to crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up | |
| 太阳 太陽 | sun; abbr. for 太阳穴 | |
| 那时 那時 | then; at that time; in those days | |
| 雪 雪 | snow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc) | |
| 什么样 什麼樣 | what kind?; what sort? | |
| 多么 多麼 | how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent | |
| 经理 經理 | manager; director | |
| 好多 好多 | many; quite a lot; much better | |
| 轻 輕 | light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage | |
| 黄 黃 | yellow; pornographic; to fall through | |
| 墙 牆 | wall | |
| 千 千 | thousand | |
| 酒店 酒店 | wine shop; pub (public house); hotel; restaurant; (Tw) hostess club | |
| 纸 紙 | paper; classifier for documents, letter etc | |
| 交给 交給 | to give; to deliver; to hand over | |
| 长大 長大 | to grow up | |
| 网 網 | net; network | |
| 级 級 | level; grade; rank; step (of stairs); classifier: step, level | |
| 不行 不行 | won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable | |
| 怎么办 怎麼辦 | what's to be done |