Aberdeen 2014
人间·小团圆
The extended Cheng family, which, like Aberdeen harbor's Chinese namesake, represents today's Little Hong Kong and its myriad of contradictions between traditions and modernity; superstitions and materialism; family and individuality.
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Vocabulary
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| 不容 不容 | must not; cannot; to not allow; cannot tolerate | |
| 关掉 關掉 | to switch off; to shut off | |
| 一心 一心 | wholeheartedly; heart and soul | |
| 通宵 通宵 | all night; throughout the night | |
| 电线 電線 | wire; power cord | |
| 迷路 迷路 | to lose the way; lost; labyrinth; labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear) | |
| 不适 不適 | unwell; indisposed; out of sorts | |
| 疏散 疏散 | to scatter; to disperse; to evacuate; scattered; to relax | |
| 虚伪 虛偽 | false; hypocritical; artificial; sham | |
| 位子 位子 | place; seat | |
| 宠 寵 | to love; to pamper; to spoil; to favor | |
| 一度 一度 | for a time; at one time; one time; once | |
| 早日 早日 | soon; at an early date; the early days; the past | |
| 夸 夸 | used in 克 | |
| 上映 上映 | to screen; to show (a movie) | |
| 验 驗 | to examine; to test; to check | |
| 拧 擰 | to pinch; wring | |
| 职员 職員 | office worker; staff member | |
| 物体 物體 | object; body; substance | |
| 胃口 胃口 | appetite; liking | |
| 坦白 坦白 | honest; forthcoming; to confess | |
| 诊所 診所 | clinic | |
| 裹 裹 | to wrap around; bundle; parcel; package; to press into service; to pressgang; to make off with (sth) | |
| 自行 自行 | voluntary; autonomous; by oneself; self- | |
| 车厢 車廂 | carriage | |
| 往事 往事 | past events; former happenings | |
| 以免 以免 | in order to avoid; so as not to | |
| 憋 憋 | to choke; to stifle; to restrain; to hold back; to hold in (urine); to hold (one's breath) | |
| 亲手 親手 | personally; with one's own hands | |
| 丢失 丟失 | to lose; to misplace | |
| 沙滩 沙灘 | beach; sandy shore | |
| 八卦 八卦 | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经; gossip; gossipy | |
| 积 積 | to amass; to accumulate; to store; measured quantity (such as area of volume); product (the result of multiplication); to integrate (math.); to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.); old; long-standing | |
| 用力 用力 | to exert oneself physically | |
| 留意 留意 | to be mindful; to pay attention to; to take note of | |
| 嘲笑 嘲笑 | to jeer at; to deride; to ridicule; mockery; derision | |
| 倒数 倒數 | to count backwards (from 10 down to 0); to count down; from the bottom (lines on a page); from the back (rows of seats) | |
| 壮 壯 | Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group | |
| 嘴唇 嘴唇 | lip | |
| 封锁 封鎖 | to blockade; to seal off; to lock down | |
| 凡 凡 | ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every; all; whatever; altogether; gist; outline; note of Chinese musical scale | |
| 挖掘 挖掘 | to excavate; to dig; to unearth | |
| 地狱 地獄 | hell; infernal; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka | |
| 傻瓜 傻瓜 | idiot; fool | |
| 大厦 大廈 | (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc) | |
| 隧道 隧道 | tunnel | |
| 外表 外表 | external; outside; outward appearance | |
| 亲戚 親戚 | a relative (i.e. family relation) | |
| 声称 聲稱 | to claim; to state; to proclaim; to assert | |
| 劫 刦 | to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 波 |