Ash Is Purest White 2018
江湖儿女
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.
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Vocabulary
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| 春 旾 | spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life | |
| 属 屬 | category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute | |
| 去世 去世 | to pass away; to die | |
| 改造 改造 | to transform; to reform; to remodel; to remold | |
| 文明 文明 | civilized; civilization; culture | |
| 后果 後果 | consequences; aftermath | |
| 能不能 能不能 | Can you | |
| 放到 放到 | Put in | |
| 开发 開發 | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop | |
| 石油 石油 | oil; petroleum | |
| 当初 當初 | at that time; originally | |
| 看上去 看上去 | it would appear; it seems (that) | |
| 人才 人才 | talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks | |
| 公布 公佈 | to announce; to make public; to publish | |
| 工资 工資 | wages; pay | |
| 相互 相互 | each other; mutual | |
| 前往 前往 | to leave for; to proceed towards; to go to | |
| 亲自 親自 | personally; in person; oneself | |
| 厂 厂 | factory; yard; depot; workhouse; works; (industrial) plant | |
| 快速 快速 | fast; high-speed; rapid | |
| 专门 專門 | specialist; specialized; customized | |
| 命运 命運 | fate; destiny | |
| 搬 搬 | to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately | |
| 提前 提前 | to shift to an earlier date; to do sth ahead of time; in advance | |
| 桥 橋 | bridge | |
| 赶 趕 | to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time) | |
| 生意 生意 | life force; vitality | |
| 领 領 | neck; collar; to lead; to receive; classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc | |
| 化 化 | to make into; to change into; -ization; to ... -ize; to transform; abbr. for 化学 | |
| 赶紧 趕緊 | hurriedly; without delay | |
| 资金 資金 | funds; capital | |
| 幸运 幸運 | fortunate; lucky; fortune; luck | |
| 证据 證據 | evidence; proof; testimony | |
| 旧 舊 | old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age) | |
| 时刻 時刻 | time; juncture; moment; period of time; constantly; always | |
| 慢慢 慢慢 | slowly | |
| 文化 文化 | culture; civilization; cultural | |
| 顿 頓 | to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal | |
| 猪 豬 | hog; pig; swine | |
| 演出 演出 | to act (in a play); to perform; to put on (a performance); performance; concert; show | |
| 等待 等待 | to wait; to wait for | |
| 配 配 | to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate | |
| 龙 龍 | dragon; imperial | |
| 麻烦 麻煩 | trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble | |
| 不仅 不僅 | not just; not limited to; (as a correlative conjunction) not only (..., but also ...) | |
| 保险 保險 | insurance; to insure; safe; secure; be sure; be bound to | |
| 年代 年代 | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period | |
| 哈哈 哈哈 | (onom.) laughing out loud | |
| 外面 外面 | outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance | |
| 朝 朝 | abbr. for 朝鲜 Korea |