Back to Back, Face to Face 1994
背靠背，脸对脸
Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.
Vocabulary
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| 腰 腰 | waist; lower back; pocket; middle; loins | |
| 稳 穩 | settled; steady; stable | |
| 质量 質量 | quality; (physics) mass | |
| 登 登 | to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) | |
| 肚子 肚子 | belly; abdomen; stomach | |
| 获 獲 | (literary) to catch; to capture; (literary) to get; to obtain; to win | |
| 诗 詩 | abbr. for Shijing 诗经, the Book of Songs | |
| 镜头 鏡頭 | camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc); scene | |
| 肥 肥 | fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure | |
| 工程 工程 | engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking | |
| 似的 似的 | seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de] | |
| 迅速 迅速 | rapid; speedy; fast | |
| 如今 如今 | nowadays; now | |
| 万一 萬一 | just in case; if by any chance; contingency | |
| 法院 法院 | court of law; court | |
| 批 批 | to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges) | |
| 行业 行業 | trade; profession; industry; business | |
| 放松 放鬆 | to relax; to slacken; to loosen | |
| 挑 挑 | to carry on a shoulder pole; to choose; to pick; to nitpick | |
| 脱 脫 | to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from | |
| 不然 不然 | not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? | |
| 归 歸 | to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | |
| 奖 獎 | prize; award; encouragement | |
| 盖 蓋 | lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build | |
| 闹 鬧 | noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke | |
| 量 量 | to measure | |
| 主题 主題 | theme; subject | |
| 失望 失望 | disappointed; to lose hope; to despair | |
| 透 透 | (bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly; through and through; to appear; to show | |
| 烦 煩 | to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy | |
| 结 結 | (of a plant) to produce (fruit or seeds); Taiwan pr. [jié] | |
| 冰 冰 | ice; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold; (of a person) cold; unfriendly; (slang) methamphetamine | |
| 确认 確認 | to confirm; to verify; confirmation | |
| 尽快 儘快 | as quickly as possible; as soon as possible | |
| 美女 美女 | beautiful woman | |
| 刺激 刺激 | to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant | |
| 编 編 | to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up | |
| 发挥 發揮 | to display; to exhibit; to bring out implicit or innate qualities; to express (a thought or moral); to develop (an idea); to elaborate (on a theme) | |
| 内部 內部 | interior; inside (part, section); internal | |
| 色 色 | color; look; appearance; sex | |
| 摆 擺 | to arrange; to exhibit; to move to and fro; a pendulum | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 兴奋 興奮 | excited; excitement; (physiology) excitation | |
| 替 替 | to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for | |
| 官 官 | government official; governmental; official; public; organ of the body | |
| 处于 處於 | to be in (some state, position, or condition) | |
| 合同 合同 | (business) contract | |
| 权利 權利 | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth | |
| 彻底 徹底 | thorough; thoroughly; complete | |
| 提醒 提醒 | to remind; to call attention to; to warn of |