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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| 聊 聊 | to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly | |
| 胸 胷 | chest; bosom; heart; mind; thorax | |
| 惊喜 驚喜 | nice surprise; to be pleasantly surprised | |
| 塔 塔 | pagoda; tower; minaret; stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo) | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on | |
| 时期 時期 | period; phase | |
| 为何 為何 | why | |
| 学会 學會 | to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 情绪 情緒 | mood; state of mind; moodiness | |
| 爆炸 爆炸 | explosion; to explode; to blow up; to detonate | |
| 说实话 說實話 | to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly | |
| 攻击 攻擊 | to attack; to accuse; to charge; an attack (terrorist or military) | |
| 威胁 威脅 | to threaten; to menace | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 利 利 | sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 集 集 | to gather; to collect; collected works; classifier for sections of a TV series etc: episode | |
| 逼 偪 | to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 哇 哇 | Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 于 | (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 毛骨悚然 毛骨悚然 | to have one's hair stand on end (idiom); to feel one's blood run cold | Idiom |
| 姑妈 姑媽 | (coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt | Colloquialism |
| 收拾 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 估计 估計 | to estimate; to reckon; (coll.) to suppose | Colloquialism |
| 微博 微博 | microblogging; microblog | |
| 怡 怡 | harmony; pleasure, joy; be glad | |
| 暴风 暴風 | windstorm; (meteorology) storm (force 11 wind) | |
| 滔 滔 | overflow; rushing water, a torrent | |
| 小巴 小巴 | minibus | |
| 妮 妮 | maid, servant girl; cute girl | |
| 姑父 姑父 | father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle | |
| 珍 珍 | precious, valuable, rare | |
| 搞错 搞錯 | mistake; to make a mistake; to blunder; mistaken | |
| 驻守 駐守 | (man a post and) defend | |
| 待会 待會 | wait a minute; stop a while | |
| 狱 獄 | prison, jail; case; lawsuit | |
| 邱 邱 | surname; hill; mound; grave | |
| 电脑断层扫描 電腦斷層掃描 | CAT scan; CT scan | |
| 公公 公公 | husband's father; father-in-law; grandpa; grandad; (old) form of address for a eunuch | |
| 邨 邨 | village, hamlet; rustic | |
| 上岸 上岸 | to go ashore; to climb ashore; (fig.) to achieve a stable and secure life after a period of struggle (e.g. to get a government job, be admitted to a desirable university, or finally pay off one's debts) | |
| 孽 孼 | evil; son of concubine; ghost | |
| 么 麼 | interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) | |
| 拉链 拉鏈 | zipper | |
| 声效 聲效 | sound effect |