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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| 合算 合算 | worthwhile; to be a good deal; to be a bargain; to reckon up; to calculate | |
| 楼道 樓道 | corridor; passageway (in storied building) | |
| 不值 不值 | not worth | |
| 待会儿 待會兒 | in a moment; later; also pr. [dāi huǐ r] or [dāi hui r] | |
| 岁数 歲數 | age (number of years old) | |
| 甭 甭 | (contraction of 用) need not; please don't | |
| 作废 作廢 | to become invalid; to cancel; to delete; to nullify | |
| 踏实 踏實 | firmly-based; steady; steadfast; to have peace of mind; free from anxiety; Taiwan pr. [tà shí] | |
| 送礼 送禮 | to give a present | |
| 抽空 抽空 | to find the time to do sth | |
| 分工 分工 | to divide up the work; division of labor | |
| 要好 要好 | to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement | |
| 名额 名額 | quota; number of places; place (in an institution, a group etc) | |
| 一路上 一路上 | along the way; the whole way; (fig.) the whole time | |
| 谦虚 謙虛 | modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks | |
| 出面 出面 | to appear personally; to step in; to step forth; to show up | |
| 免得 免得 | so as not to; so as to avoid | |
| 眼看 眼看 | soon; in a moment; to look on as sth happens | |
| 去掉 去掉 | to get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to delete; to strip out; to extract | |
| 招聘 招聘 | to invite applications for a job; to recruit | |
| 不便 不便 | inconvenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; short of cash | |
| 不至于 不至於 | unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as | |
| 心愿 心願 | cherished desire; dream; craving; wish; aspiration | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 好不容易 好不容易 | with great difficulty; very difficult | |
| 学员 學員 | student; member of an institution of learning; officer cadet | |
| 拐 枴 | cane; walking stick; crutch; old man's staff | |
| 出动 出動 | to start out on a trip; to dispatch troops | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 账 賬 | account; bill; debt | |
| 裂 裂 | to split; to crack; to break open; to rend | |
| 隐私 隱私 | secrets; private business; privacy | |
| 拿走 拿走 | to take away | |
| 病房 病房 | ward (of a hospital); sickroom | |
| 特意 特意 | specially; intentionally | |
| 撤销 撤銷 | to repeal; to revoke; (computing) to undo | |
| 传出 傳出 | to transmit outwards; to disseminate; efferent (nerve) | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 赖 賴 | to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on | |
| 心脏病 心臟病 | heart disease | |
| 挨 挨 | in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 审查 審查 | to examine; to investigate; to censor out; censorship | |
| 接收 接收 | reception (of transmitted signal); to receive; to accept; to admit; to take over (e.g. a factory); to expropriate | |
| 办公 辦公 | to handle official business; to work (esp. in an office) | |
| 好转 好轉 | to improve; to take a turn for the better; improvement | |
| 掏 掏 | to fish out (from pocket); to scoop | |
| 赶上 趕上 | to keep up with; to catch up with; to overtake; to chance upon; in time for | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role | |
| 活跃 活躍 | active; lively; excited; to enliven; to brighten up |