City of Life and Death 2009
南京！南京！
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
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Vocabulary
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| 一点点 一點點 | a little bit | |
| 过年 過年 | to celebrate the Chinese New Year | |
| 站住 站住 | to stand | |
| 走开 走開 | to leave; to walk away; to beat it; to move aside | |
| 举手 舉手 | to raise a hand; to put up one's hand (as signal) | |
| 排队 排隊 | to line up | |
| 凉 涼 | the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西凉 (400-421) | |
| 太太 太太 | married woman; Mrs.; Madam; wife | |
| 冬天 冬天 | winter | |
| 停车 停車 | to pull up (stop one's vehicle); to park; (of a machine) to stop working; to stall | |
| 对话 對話 | to talk (with sb); dialogue; conversation | |
| 队长 隊長 | captain; team leader | |
| 碰到 碰到 | to come across; to run into; to meet; to hit | |
| 碰 掽 | to touch; to meet with; to bump | |
| 不好意思 不好意思 | to feel embarrassed; to find it embarrassing; to be sorry (for inconveniencing sb) | |
| 好处 好處 | easy to get along with | |
| 安静 安靜 | quiet; peaceful; calm | |
| 草 艸 | grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough | |
| 放心 放心 | to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease | |
| 故意 故意 | deliberately; on purpose | |
| 角 角 | angle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) | |
| 舒服 舒服 | comfortable; feeling well | |
| 同事 同事 | colleague; co-worker | |
| 练 練 | to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk | |
| 的话 的話 | if (coming after a conditional clause) | |
| 放下 放下 | to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc) | |
| 讲话 講話 | a speech; to speak; to talk; to address | |
| 英语 英語 | English (language) | |
| 食物 食物 | food | |
| 提高 提高 | to raise; to increase; to improve | |
| 接到 接到 | to receive (letter etc) | |
| 出发 出發 | to set off; to start (on a journey) | |
| 味道 味道 | flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor | |
| 礼物 禮物 | gift; present | |
| 急 急 | urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious | |
| 蓝 藍 | blue; indigo plant | |
| 封 封 | to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters | |
| 头发 頭髮 | hair (on the head) | |
| 交给 交給 | to give; to deliver; to hand over | |
| 借 借 | to lend; to borrow; by means of; to take (an opportunity) | |
| 动物 動物 | animal | |
| 怎么办 怎麼辦 | what's to be done | |
| 不够 不夠 | not enough; insufficient; inadequate | |
| 小心 小心 | to be careful; to take care | |
| 咱们 咱們 | we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [zá men] | |
| 普通 普通 | common; ordinary; general; average | |
| 怎么样 怎麼樣 | how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? | |
| 喂 喂 | hello (when answering the phone) | |
| 留下 留下 | to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain; to keep; not to let (sb) go | |
| 方向 方向 | direction; orientation |