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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| 吓 嚇 | to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) | |
| 剩下 剩下 | to remain; to be left over | |
| 记忆 記憶 | to remember; to recall; memory | |
| 偷 偷 | to steal; to pilfer; to snatch; thief; stealthily | |
| 难以 難以 | hard to (predict, imagine etc) | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 建筑 建築 | to construct; building | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 呆 呆 | foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; to stay | |
| 拒绝 拒絕 | to refuse; to decline; to reject | |
| 枪 槍 | gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots | |
| 人物 人物 | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); figure painting (as a genre of traditional Chinese painting) | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 执行 執行 | to implement; to carry out; to execute; to run | |
| 恢复 恢復 | to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 傻 傻 | foolish | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 尽管 儘管 | despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating | |
| 放弃 放棄 | to renounce; to abandon; to give up | |
| 至 至 | to arrive; most; to; until | |
| 控制 控制 | to control | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 其 其 | his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 既往不咎 既往不咎 | to forget and not bear recriminations (idiom); to let bygones be bygones; There is no point in crying over spilt milk. | Idiom |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 无法 無法 | unable; incapable | Xiehouyu |
| 拉肚子 拉肚子 | (coll.) to have diarrhea | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 酒泉 酒泉 | Jiuquan, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 县长 縣長 | county's head commissioner | Proper Noun |
| 兰州 蘭州 | Lanzhou, prefecture-level city and capital of Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 县委 縣委 | CCP county committee | Proper Noun |
| 金塔县 金塔縣 | Jinta county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 金塔 金塔 | Jinta county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 永登 永登 | Yongdeng county in Lanzhou, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 高台县 高台縣 | Gaotai county in Zhangye, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 肃州区 肅州區 | Suzhou district of Jiuquan City 酒泉市, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 甘肃省 甘肅省 | Gansu Province, capital Lanzhou | Proper Noun |
| 毛主席 毛主席 | Chairman Mao; Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader | Proper Noun |
| 榆林 榆林 | Yulin, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province | Proper Noun |
| 安西 安西 | Anxi county, former name of Guazhou county in Jiuquan, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 玉门 玉門 | Yumen, county-level city in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 酒泉市 酒泉市 | Jiuquan, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 专区 專區 | area established for a designated purpose; (PRC subprovincial administrative region 1949-1975) prefecture | Proper Noun |