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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| 罐 罐 | can; jar; pot | |
| 挣扎 掙扎 | to struggle | |
| 宁愿 寧願 | would rather ... (than ...) | |
| 假装 假裝 | to feign; to pretend | |
| 惩罚 懲罰 | penalty; punishment; to punish | |
| 拯救 拯救 | to save; to rescue | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 欺骗 欺騙 | to deceive; to cheat | |
| 何时 何時 | when | |
| 趁 趁 | to avail oneself of; to take advantage of | |
| 不准 不准 | not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit | |
| 宇宙 宇宙 | universe; cosmos | |
| 顺便 順便 | conveniently; in passing; without much extra effort | |
| 标 標 | mark; sign; label; to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc; to bear (a brand name, registration number etc); prize; award; bid; target; quota; (old) the topmost branches of a tree; visible symptom; classifier for military units | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 堂 堂 | (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture | |
| 注定 註定 | to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably | |
| 伴 伴 | partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany | |
| 幕 幕 | curtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general; act (of a play) | |
| 婴儿 嬰兒 | infant; baby; lead (Pb) | |
| 基因 基因 | gene (loanword) | |
| 金属 金屬 | metal | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 凌晨 凌晨 | very early in the morning; in the wee hours | |
| 枚 枚 | classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc; tree trunk; whip; wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old) | |
| 粉丝 粉絲 | bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; Chinese vermicelli; cellophane noodles; fan (loanword); enthusiast for sb or sth | |
| 艘 艘 | classifier for ships; Taiwan pr. [sāo] | |
| 狼 狼 | wolf | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 袭击 襲擊 | attack (esp. surprise attack); raid; to attack | |
| 有所 有所 | somewhat; to some extent | |
| 罗 羅 | gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift | |
| 需 需 | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need | |
| 丝 絲 | silk; thread; trace; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc | |
| 即 即 | namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 百感交集 百感交集 | all sorts of feelings well up in one's heart | Idiom |
| 添乱 添亂 | (coll.) to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 憋气 憋氣 | to hold one's breath; to feel suffocated (for lack of air); choked with bottled-up resentment | |
| 碟仙 碟仙 | form of divination similar to the Ouija board, in which participants use their forefingers to push a small saucer over a sheet of paper inscribed with numerous Chinese characters | |
| 投胎 投胎 | to be reincarnated | |
| 生肖 生肖 | one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches; animal from the Chinese zodiac |