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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| 想不开 想不開 | cannot figure out; to be unable to take a lighter view; to take things too hard; to be depressed; to fret over trifles | Xiehouyu |
| 一对儿 一對兒 | a pair; a couple | Xiehouyu |
| 二百五 二百五 | idiot; stupid person; a dope | Xiehouyu |
| 多事 多事 | meddlesome; eventful | Xiehouyu |
| 多谢 多謝 | many thanks; thanks a lot | Xiehouyu |
| 走后门 走後門 | lit. to enter by the back door; fig. to gain influence by pull or unofficial channels; back door or under the counter connections | Xiehouyu |
| 不客气 不客氣 | you're welcome; don't mention it; impolite; rude; blunt | Xiehouyu |
| 好听 好聽 | pleasant to hear | Xiehouyu |
| 没关系 沒關係 | it doesn't matter | Xiehouyu |
| 好吃 好吃 | tasty; delicious | Xiehouyu |
| 好看 好看 | good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 干; (archaic) shield | Xiehouyu |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 今儿 今兒 | (coll.) today | Colloquialism |
| 走人 走人 | (coll.) to leave; to beat it | Colloquialism |
| 有本事 有本事 | to have what it takes; (coll.) (often followed by) (used to challenge sb) if you're so clever,..., if she's so tough,... etc; Example: Hit me if you dare! | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 上床 上床 | to go to bed; (coll.) to have sex | Colloquialism |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 对不对 對不對 | right or wrong?; Is it right?; OK, yes? (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 哪门子 哪門子 | (coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what; what kind; why on earth | Colloquialism |
| 有病 有病 | to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head | Colloquialism |
| 打的 打的 | (coll.) to take a taxi; to go by taxi | Colloquialism |
| 明儿 明兒 | (coll.) tomorrow; one of these days; some day | Colloquialism |
| 不行了 不行了 | (coll.) on the point of death; dying | Colloquialism |
| 最好是 最好是 | (as a complete expression, or followed by) (coll.) Yeah, right! As if! | Colloquialism |
| 这会儿 這會兒 | (coll.) now; this moment; also pr. [zhè huǐ r] | Colloquialism |
| 一块儿 一塊兒 | erhua variant of 一块; a piece; a chunk; (coll.) one yuan; one dollar | Colloquialism |
| 爷爷 爺爺 | (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather | Colloquialism |
| 爸爸 爸爸 | (coll.) father; dad | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 老子 老子 | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi | Proper Noun |
| 太白 太白 | Taibai County in Baoji, Shaanxi; Venus | Proper Noun |
| 上都 上都 | Shangdu, also known as Xanadu, summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) | Proper Noun |
| 广州 廣州 | Guangzhou, sub-provincial city and capital of Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 香港 香港 | Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC | Proper Noun |
| 人大 人大 | Renmin University of China | Proper Noun |
| 上水 上水 | Sheung Shui (area in Hong Kong) | Proper Noun |
| 点点 點點 | Diandian (Chinese microblogging and social networking website) | Proper Noun |
| 谁知道 誰知道 | God knows...; Who would have imagined...? | |
| 男孩儿 男孩兒 | erhua variant of 男孩; boy |