A Land Imagined 2019
幻土
A cop in Singapore investigates the disappearance of a Chinese migrant construction worker who spent sleepless nights playing a mysterious video game.
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Vocabulary
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| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 够不着 夠不著 | to be unable to reach | Xiehouyu |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 猫 貓 | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 孟加拉语 孟加拉語 | Bengali (language) | Proper Noun |
| 马来西亚 馬來西亞 | Malaysia | Proper Noun |
| 新加坡 新加坡 | Singapore | Proper Noun |
| 孟加拉 孟加拉 | Bengal; Bangladesh | Proper Noun |
| 越南 越南 | Vietnam | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 桌面 桌面 | desktop; tabletop | |
| 工头 工頭 | foreman | |
| 轻快 輕快 | light and quick; brisk; spry; lively; effortless; relaxed; agile; blithe | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 载 載 | load; carry; transport, convey | |
| 操 撡 | conduct, run, control, manage | |
| 咂嘴 咂嘴 | to click one's tongue | |
| 油门 油門 | accelerator (pedal); gas pedal; throttle | |
| 电影节 電影節 | film festival | |
| 巴 巴 | greatly desire, anxiously hope | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 低级 低級 | low level; rudimentary; vulgar; low; inferior | |
| 哪像 哪像 | unlike; in contrast to | |
| 打不通 打不通 | cannot get through (on phone) | |
| 内人 內人 | my wife (humble) | |
| 物 物 | thing, substance, creature | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 推车 推車 | cart; trolley; to push a cart | |
| 变通 變通 | pragmatic; flexible; to act differently in different situations; to accommodate to circumstances | |
| 一套 一套 | suit; a set; a collection; of the same kind; the same old stuff; set pattern of behavior | |
| 黑市 黑市 | black market | |
| 吹气 吹氣 | to blow air (into) | |
| 改天 改天 | another day; some other time; to find another day (for appointment etc); to take a rain check | |
| 才不 才不 | by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! | |
| 小白脸 小白臉 | attractive young man (usually derog.); pretty boy; gigolo | |
| 有节 有節 | segmented | |
| 了然 瞭然 | to understand clearly; evident | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 手推车 手推車 | trolley; cart; barrow; handcart; wheelbarrow; baby buggy | |
| 停工 停工 | to stop work; to shut down; to stop production | |
| 玩意 玩意 | toy; plaything; thing; act; trick (in a performance, stage show, acrobatics etc) | |
| 成说 成說 | accepted theory or formulation | |
| 做完 做完 | to finish; to complete the task |