Dead Souls 2018
死灵魂
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.
Vocabulary
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| 井 井 | a well; neat; orderly | |
| 当天 當天 | on that day | |
| 惨 慘 | miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy | |
| 本地 本地 | local; this locality | |
| 判 判 | to judge; to sentence; to discriminate; to discern; clearly distinguishable | |
| 险 險 | danger; dangerous; rugged | |
| 民主 民主 | democracy | |
| 肺 肺 | lung | |
| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 涉及 涉及 | to involve; to touch upon (a topic) | |
| 骄傲 驕傲 | pride; arrogance; conceited; proud of sth | |
| 蒙 濛 | drizzle; mist | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 煮 煑 | to cook; to boil | |
| 野 埜 | field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral | |
| 顺 順 | to obey; to follow; to arrange; to make reasonable; along; favorable | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 形 形 | to appear; to look; form; shape | |
| 因素 因素 | element; factor | |
| 料 料 | material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess | |
| 绝 絕 | to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means | |
| 至于 至於 | as for; as to; to go so far as to | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 档案 檔案 | file; record; archive | |
| 挖 挖 | to dig; to excavate; to scoop out | |
| 扣 釦 | button | |
| 端 端 | end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth level with both hands; to carry; regular | |
| 本身 本身 | itself; in itself; per se | |
| 负 負 | to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) | |
| 仪式 儀式 | ceremony | |
| 踢 踢 | to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) | |
| 政策 政策 | policy | |
| 权力 權力 | power; authority | |
| 搭 搭 | to put up; to build (scaffolding); to hang (clothes on a pole); to connect; to join; to arrange in pairs; to match; to add; to throw in (resources); to take (boat, train); variant of 褡 | |
| 炒 炒 | to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) | |
| 时期 時期 | period; phase | |
| 印 印 | to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image | |
| 党 黨 | party; association; club; society | |
| 滴 滴 | a drop; to drip | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 部队 部隊 | army; armed forces; troops; force; unit | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 镇 鎮 | to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) | |
| 藏 藏 | Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 之类 之類 | and so on; and such |