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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| 看不清 看不清 | not able to see clearly | |
| 重逢 重逢 | to meet again; to be reunited; reunion | |
| 招式 招式 | (martial arts) formalized move | |
| 榴莲 榴蓮 | durian fruit; Durio zibethinus | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 兽医 獸醫 | veterinarian; veterinary surgeon; vet | |
| 炮台 砲臺 | fort; battery | |
| 塞车 塞車 | traffic jam | |
| 感光 感光 | light-sensitive | |
| 夫君 夫君 | my husband | |
| 登仙 登仙 | to become immortal; big promotion; die | |
| 广告牌 廣告牌 | billboard | |
| 浮沉 浮沉 | ups and downs (of life etc); to drift along; to sink and emerge | |
| 蹉跎岁月 蹉跎歲月 | 蹉: error, mistake, slip; failure · 跎: slip, stumble, falter; vacillate · 岁: year; age; harvest · 月: moon; month; KangXi radical 74 | |
| 佣人 傭人 | servant | |
| 双重标准 雙重標準 | double standard | |
| 初赛 初賽 | preliminary contest; initial heats of a competition | |
| 超渡 超渡 | variant of | |
| 亡灵 亡靈 | departed spirit | |
| 拜祭 拜祭 | to worship; to observe religious rites; to pay one's respects (to one's ancestors etc) | |
| 讨生活 討生活 | to eke out a living; to live from hand to mouth; to drift aimlessly | |
| 唢呐 嗩吶 | suona, Chinese shawm (oboe), used in festivals and processions or for military purposes; also written 鎖吶|锁呐; also called | |
| 飘渺 飄渺 | faintly discernible; indistinct; misty | |
| 缘何 緣何 | why?; for what reason? | |
| 消防车 消防車 | fire engine; fire truck | |
| 挖土机 挖土機 | excavator; backhoe | |
| 不觉 不覺 | unconsciously | |
| 铺设 鋪設 | to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline); to install (wiring, cable); to construct (road, concrete slab) | |
| 水渠 水渠 | canal | |
| 蟋蟀 蟋蟀 | cricket (insect) | |
| 曲棍 曲棍 | bent stick; hockey stick | |
| 验血 驗血 | to do a blood test; to have one's blood tested | |
| 孤儿院 孤兒院 | orphanage; child asylum | |
| 公映 公映 | public screening (of a movie) | |
| 删改 刪改 | to edit; to modify; to alter (written material) | |
| 原状 原狀 | previous condition; original state | |
| 痘痘 痘痘 | pimple; zit; (by extension) acne | |
| 雀斑 雀斑 | freckles | |
| 护肤 護膚 | skincare | |
| 摇臂 搖臂 | rocker arm | |
| 奇异果 奇異果 | kiwi fruit; Chinese gooseberry | |
| 点映 點映 | (film) preview screening | |
| 棉袄 棉襖 | cotton-padded jacket | |
| 下贱 下賤 | humble; lowly; depraved; contemptible | |
| 解封 解封 | to lift a ban; to end a lockdown | |
| 侧躺 側躺 | to lie down (on one's side) | |
| 胸鳍 胸鰭 | pectoral fin | |
| 鲸豚 鯨豚 | cetacean | |
| 凑热闹 湊熱鬧 | to join in the fun; to get in on the action; (fig.) to butt in; to create more trouble | |
| 补习 補習 | to take extra lessons in a cram school or with a private tutor |