Back to Back, Face to Face

Back to Back, Face to Face 1994

背靠背，脸对脸 bèikàobèi， liǎn duì liǎn

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.

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4.5 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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希望 希望 xī wàng to hope; a hope; a wish HSK 3
种 種 zhǒng seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts HSK 3
死 死 sǐ to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
所 所 suǒ actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive HSK 3
开始 開始 kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
需要 需要 xū yào to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs HSK 3
时 時 shí o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period HSK 3
就是 就是 jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
被 被 bèi quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) HSK 3
把 把 bǎ to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) HSK 3
出人头地 出人頭地 chū rén tóu dì to stand out among one's peers (idiom); to excel Idiom ∼HSK 2
不要脸 不要臉 bù yào liǎn to have no sense of shame; shameless Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
说话算数 說話算數 shuō huà suàn shù to keep one's promise; to mean what one says Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
毛手毛脚 毛手毛腳 máo shǒu máo jiǎo carelessly and haphazardly; to paw; to grope; to get fresh Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
难看 難看 nán kàn ugly; unsightly Xiehouyu HSK 2
难过 難過 nán guò to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult Xiehouyu HSK 2
正好 正好 zhèng hǎo just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that Xiehouyu HSK 2
够朋友 夠朋友 gòu péng you (coll.) to be a true friend Colloquialism ∼HSK 2
这年头 這年頭 zhè nián tou (coll.) nowadays Colloquialism ∼HSK 2
够 夠 gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out Colloquialism HSK 2
猫 貓 māo cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem Colloquialism HSK 2
挺 挺 tǐng straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns Colloquialism HSK 2
拉 拉 lā to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels Colloquialism HSK 2
韩信 韓信 Hán Xìn Han Xin (-196 BC), famous general of first Han emperor Liu Bang Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
大雪 大雪 Dà xuě Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
本市 本市 běn shì this city; our city Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
挺好 挺好 tǐng hǎo very good HSK 2
快点儿 快點兒 kuài diǎn r erhua variant of 快点; to do smh more quickly; Hurry up! HSK 2
有空儿 有空兒 yǒukòngr available HSK 2
别提了 別提了 bié tí le say no more; don't bring it up; drop the subject ∼HSK 2
见过 見過 jiànguò seen HSK 2
没问题 沒問題 méi wèn tí no problem ∼HSK 2
市里 市裡 shì lǐ li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters) ∼HSK 2
影院 影院 yǐng yuàn cinema; movie theater ∼HSK 2
一定要 一定要 yī dìng yào must ∼HSK 2
房 房 Fáng surname Fang ∼HSK 2
一套 一套 yī tào suit; a set; a collection; of the same kind; the same old stuff; set pattern of behavior ∼HSK 2
那咱 那咱 nà zan at that time (old) ∼HSK 2
成了 成了 chéng le to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do! ∼HSK 2
鞋匠 鞋匠 xié jiang shoemaker; cobbler ∼HSK 2
低分 低分 dī fēn low marks; low score ∼HSK 2
头上 頭上 tóu shàng overhead; above ∼HSK 2
喝酒 喝酒 hē jiǔ to drink (alcohol) ∼HSK 2
款 款 kuǎn item, article; clause; fund ∼HSK 2
应该的 應該的 yīng gāi de (polite response) you're welcome; just doing my duty; no problem ∼HSK 2
油水 油水 yóu shuǐ grease; profit; ill-gotten gains ∼HSK 2
不当 不當 bù dàng unsuitable; improper; inappropriate ∼HSK 2
条子 條子 tiáo zi short note; slip of paper; stripe; (slang) cop; (old) prostitute ∼HSK 2
别客气 別客氣 bié kè qi don't mention it; no formalities, please ∼HSK 2
什么时候 什麼時候 shén me shí hou when?; at what time? ∼HSK 2