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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肾 腎 shèn kidney HSK 7
都会 都會 dū huì city; metropolis HSK 7
何时 何時 hé shí when HSK 7
兼 兼 jiān double; twice; simultaneous; holding two or more (official) posts at the same time HSK 7
财政 財政 cái zhèng finances (public); financial HSK 7
挥 揮 huī to wave; to brandish; to command; to conduct; to scatter; to disperse HSK 7
瞎 瞎 xiā blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose HSK 7
不准 不准 bù zhǔn not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit HSK 7
评委 評委 píng wěi evaluation committee; judging panel; judging panel member; adjudicator (abbr. for 评选委员会委员) HSK 7
要不 要不 yào bù otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) HSK 7
贼 賊 zéi thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely HSK 7
标 標 biāo mark; sign; label; to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc; to bear (a brand name, registration number etc); prize; award; bid; target; quota; (old) the topmost branches of a tree; visible symptom; classifier for military units HSK 7
财务 財務 cái wù financial affairs HSK 7
瓦 瓦 wǎ roof tile; abbr. for 特 HSK 7
乖 乖 guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal HSK 7
粘 粘 zhān to glue; to paste; to adhere; to stick to HSK 7
寻 尋 xún to search; to look for; to seek HSK 7
堂 堂 táng (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture HSK 7
脖子 脖子 bó zi neck HSK 7
砍 砍 kǎn to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb HSK 7
栋 棟 dòng classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old) HSK 7
钥匙 鑰匙 yào shi key HSK 7
屁股 屁股 pì gu buttocks; bottom; butt; back part HSK 7
惹 惹 rě to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) HSK 7
原本 原本 yuán běn originally; original HSK 7
告 告 gào to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue HSK 7
耍 耍 shuǎ to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) HSK 7
革命 革命 gé mìng to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) HSK 7
码 碼 mǎ weight; number; code; to pile; to stack; classifier for length or distance (yard), happenings etc HSK 7
哼 哼 hēng to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! HSK 7
嘿 嘿 hēi hey HSK 7
唉 唉 āi interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh HSK 7
哎 哎 āi hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) HSK 7
砸 砸 zá to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle HSK 7
格 格 gé square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively HSK 7
罗 羅 luó gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift HSK 7
不知 不知 bù zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
同志 同志 tóng zhì comrade; (slang) homosexual HSK 7
德 德 Dé Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 HSK 7
情 情 qíng feeling; emotion; passion; situation HSK 7
则 則 zé (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items HSK 7
主 主 zhǔ owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) HSK 7
以 㕥 Yǐ abbr. for Israel 列 HSK 7
以权谋私 以權謀私 yǐ quán móu sī to use one's position for personal gain (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
蒙在鼓里 矇在鼓裡 méng zài gǔ lǐ variant of Idiom ∼HSK 6
艰苦朴素 艱苦樸素 jiān kǔ pǔ sù leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
眼不见为净 眼不見為淨 yǎn bù jiàn wéi jìng what remains unseen is deemed to be clean; what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
好说歹说 好說歹說 hǎo shuō dǎi shuō (idiom) to try one's very best to persuade sb; to reason with sb in every way possible Idiom ∼HSK 6
趁人之危 趁人之危 chèn rén zhī wēi to take advantage of sb's difficulties (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
相敬如宾 相敬如賓 xiāng jìng rú bīn to treat each other as an honored guest (idiom); mutual respect between husband and wife Idiom ∼HSK 6