A Balloon's Landing 2024
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A frustrated Hong Kong writer, Tian-Yu, meets a Taipei street gangster, Xiang, and the two of them embark on a journey to find the Bay of Whales, a place that leads to paradise.
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Vocabulary
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| 烂 爛 | soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad | |
| 一辈子 一輩子 | (for) a lifetime | |
| 签 籤 | inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag | |
| 洞 洞 | cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) | |
| 可惜 可惜 | it is a pity; what a pity; unfortunately | |
| 吐 吐 | to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances) | |
| 骗 騙 | to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over | |
| 损失 損失 | loss; damage; to lose; to suffer damage | |
| 厉害 厲害 | (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding; (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough; (of an animal) fierce; (of a resemblance) striking; (of liquor or chili pepper) strong; (of bacteria) virulent | |
| 吓 嚇 | to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) | |
| 记忆 記憶 | to remember; to recall; memory | |
| 丢 丟 | to lose; to put aside; to throw | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 冠军 冠軍 | champion | |
| 关键 關鍵 | crucial point; crux; key; crucial; pivotal | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 即使 即使 | even if; even though | |
| 放弃 放棄 | to renounce; to abandon; to give up | |
| 再次 再次 | one more time; again; one more; once again | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 粗心 粗心 | careless; thoughtless | Xiehouyu |
| 冷静 冷靜 | calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet | Xiehouyu |
| 拉肚子 拉肚子 | (coll.) to have diarrhea | Colloquialism |
| 帅 帥 | (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) | Colloquialism |
| 垦丁 墾丁 | Kenting, a national park on the southern tip of Taiwan, popular as a tourist destination | Proper Noun |
| 张国荣 張國榮 | Leslie Cheung (1956-2003), Hong Kong singer and actor | Proper Noun |
| 唐人街 唐人街 | Chinatown | Proper Noun |
| 港币 港幣 | Hong Kong currency; Hong Kong dollar | Proper Noun |
| 圣地 聖地 | holy land (of a religion); sacred place; shrine; holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc); center of historic interest | Proper Noun |
| 辣妹 辣妹 | Spice Girls (1990s UK pop group) | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 澳 澳 | inlet, bay; dock, bank | |
| 僵尸 殭屍 | gyonshi; jiang shi; Chinese vampire; zombie | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 养父 養父 | foster father; adoptive father | |
| 擦身而过 擦身而過 | to brush past | |
| 专访 專訪 | to interview (a particular person or on a particular topic); special interview; special report based on such an interview | |
| 不简单 不簡單 | not simple; rather complicated; remarkable; marvelous | |
| 秘 祕 | secret, mysterious, abstruse | |
| 江湖 江湖 | rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf.); ( | |
| 访 訪 | visit; ask, inquire | |
| 才怪 才怪 | it'd be a wonder if... (following a verb phrase that is usually negative) | |
| 击 擊 | strike, hit, beat; attack, fight | |
| 天涯何处无芳草 天涯何處無芳草 | there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom) |