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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| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 情绪 情緒 | mood; state of mind; moodiness | |
| 服 服 | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes | |
| 错过 錯過 | to miss (train, opportunity etc) | |
| 允许 允許 | to permit; to allow | |
| 藏 藏 | Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 之类 之類 | and so on; and such | |
| 权 權 | authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 超 超 | to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra-; super- | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 於 | (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 一路 一路 | the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind | Xiehouyu |
| 青石 青石 | bluestone; limestone (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 礼拜 禮拜 | to attend a religious service; (coll.) week; (coll.) Sunday | Colloquialism |
| 慌 慌 | to get panicky; to lose one's head; (coll.) (after 得) unbearably; terribly | Colloquialism |
| 呐 吶 | modal particle | |
| 掩 掩 | to cover (with the hand); shut, conceal; ambush | |
| 槲 槲 | type of oak | |
| 敏 敏 | fast, quick, clever, smart | |
| 姥 姥 | maternal grandmother; midwife | |
| 上岸 上岸 | to go ashore; to climb ashore; (fig.) to achieve a stable and secure life after a period of struggle (e.g. to get a government job, be admitted to a desirable university, or finally pay off one's debts) | |
| 早恋 早戀 | to be in love when one is too young; puppy love | |
| 晓 曉 | dawn, daybreak; clear, explicit | |
| 谈恋爱 談戀愛 | to be in a romantic relationship; to go steady; to be dating | |
| 放声 放聲 | very loudly; at the top of one's voice | |
| 闯过 闖過 | to crash one's way through | |
| 艰 艱 | difficult, hard; distressing | |
| 何 何 | what (literary) | |
| 停产 停產 | to stop production | |
| 司令部 司令部 | headquarters; military command center | |
| 辈子 輩子 | all one's life; lifetime | |
| 路旁 路旁 | roadside | |
| 眠 眠 | close eyes, sleep; hibernate | |
| 国企 國企 | state-owned enterprise; (Tw) international business management (as a subject of study) | |
| 自然灾害 自然災害 | natural disaster | |
| 不舍 不捨 | reluctant to part with (sth or sb); unwilling to let go of | |
| 拆下 拆下 | to dismantle; to take apart | |
| 甲板 甲板 | deck (of a boat etc) | |
| 第一声 第一聲 | first tone in Mandarin; high, level tone | |
| 师兄弟 師兄弟 | fellow apprentices; fellow students (male) | |
| 硬拉 硬拉 | deadlift | |
| 军事化 軍事化 | militarization | |
| 离岸 離岸 | offshore | |
| 发慌 發慌 | to become agitated; to feel nervous | |
| 暖瓶 暖瓶 | thermos |