Caught in the Web

Caught in the Web 2012

sōusuǒ

The story of three women whose worlds collide - a social commentary about the 'sound bite' society we are becoming, where perception becomes reality and judgments based on limited facts quickly spread, without regard for the truth or the damage they could cause.

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4.15 Intermediate Director Chen Kaige 🍅 7%

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Vocabulary

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zhī to find out; to learn of HSK 7
jīng amazed; astonished; to surprise; amazing; astonishment; awe HSK 7
to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) HSK 7
gào to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue HSK 7
穿 穿 chuān zhuó attire; clothes; dress HSK 7
Dǒu abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 星 HSK 7
huī ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected HSK 7
to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch HSK 7
shè to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if HSK 7
háo not in the least; to completely lack HSK 7
tuī jiàn to recommend; recommendation HSK 7
āi hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) HSK 7
hūn yīn matrimony; wedding; marriage HSK 7
to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps HSK 7
shí shàng fashion; fad; fashionable HSK 7
suǒ wèi so-called; what is called HSK 7
zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
jīng classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 HSK 7
tóng zhì comrade; (slang) homosexual HSK 7
(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
zhǔ owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) HSK 7
abbr. for Israel 列 HSK 7
zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it HSK 7
西 西 qíng rén yǎn chū shī lit. in the eyes of a lover appears (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder Idiom ∼HSK 6
nán yuán běi zhé to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 6
mén gēng (fig.) denial of entry; flat refusal; cold rebuff Idiom ∼HSK 6
háo yán zhuàng bold, visionary words Idiom ∼HSK 6
hún shǒu shè to be preoccupied (idiom); to be inattentive; to be frightened out of one's mind Idiom ∼HSK 6
jiàn jiù 见: see, observe, behold; perceive · 死: die; dead; death · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 救: save, rescue, relieve; help, aid Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
chéng won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? Xiehouyu HSK 6
jiù suàn (coll.) even if Colloquialism HSK 6
léi thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) Colloquialism HSK 6
used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
yǒu méi yǒu (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? HSK 6
jìng sunglasses ∼HSK 6
jiǎng to argue; to reason with sb; to talk sense; to be reasonable ∼HSK 6
píng to judge between right and wrong; to reason things out ∼HSK 6
yǐn quán privacy right ∼HSK 6
jiā gōng head of a family; (polite) my father; (polite) my grandfather; your esteemed father ∼HSK 6
jué unconsciously ∼HSK 6
sāi variant of ∼HSK 6
to display shockingly bad behavior; to behave atrociously ∼HSK 6
zuì yōu optimal; optimum ∼HSK 6
bèng bungee jumping (loanword) ∼HSK 6
chān to lend an arm to support sb ∼HSK 6
huán zhài to settle a debt ∼HSK 6
chū rén mìng fatal; resulting in sb's death ∼HSK 6
zhī qíng rén person in the know; insider; informed source ∼HSK 6
bào liào to make explosive allegations ∼HSK 6
huáng dào 黄: yellow; surname · 道: path, road, street; method, way · 吉: lucky, propitious, good · 日: sun; day; daytime ∼HSK 6