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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| 阶段 階段 | stage; section; phase; period | |
| 针对 針對 | to target; to focus on; to be aimed at or against; in response to | |
| 躺 躺 | to recline; to lie down | |
| 编 編 | to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up | |
| 在于 在於 | to be in; to lie in; to consist in; to depend on; to rest with | |
| 内部 內部 | interior; inside (part, section); internal | |
| 摆 擺 | to arrange; to exhibit; to move to and fro; a pendulum | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 官 官 | government official; governmental; official; public; organ of the body | |
| 然而 然而 | however; yet; but | |
| 戴 戴 | to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support | |
| 毕业 畢業 | graduation; to graduate; to finish school | |
| 手里 手裡 | in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands | |
| 期间 期間 | period of time; time; time period; period | |
| 既 既 | already; since; both... (and...) | |
| 特殊 特殊 | special; particular; unusual; extraordinary | |
| 抽 抽 | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash | |
| 土地 土地 | land; soil; territory | |
| 圈 圈 | to confine; to lock up; to pen in | |
| 安 安 | (bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health; content; satisfied (as in 安于); to place (sb) in a suitable position (job); to install; to fix; to fit; to bring (a charge against sb); to harbor (certain intentions); ampere (abbr. for 培) | |
| 落 落 | to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind | |
| 极 極 | extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost; top | |
| 嗯 嗯 | (a groaning sound) | |
| 翻 翻 | to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross | |
| 传统 傳統 | tradition; traditional; convention; conventional | |
| 盘 盤 | plate; dish; tray; board; hard drive (computing); to build; to coil; to check; to examine; to transfer (property); to make over; classifier for food: dish, helping; to coil; classifier for coils of wire; classifier for games of chess | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 承认 承認 | to admit; to concede; to recognize; recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc); to acknowledge | |
| 政治 政治 | politics; political | |
| 期待 期待 | to look forward to; to await; expectation | |
| 反 反 | contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 切 phonetic system | |
| 机构 機構 | mechanism; structure; organization; agency; institution | |
| 导致 導致 | to lead to; to create; to cause; to bring about | |
| 投资 投資 | investment; to invest | |
| 资料 資料 | material; resources; data; information; profile (Internet) | |
| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 王 王 | king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great | |
| 位置 位置 | position; place; seat | |
| 几乎 幾乎 | almost; nearly; practically | |
| 非 非 | abbr. for 洲, Africa | |
| 之一 之一 | one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc) | |
| 历史 歷史 | history | |
| 解释 解釋 | explanation; to explain; to interpret; to resolve | |
| 不管 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 表示 表示 | to express; to show; to say; to state; to indicate; to mean | |
| 底 底 | background; bottom; base; end (of the month, year etc); remnants; (math.) radix; base | |
| 包括 包括 | to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of | |
| 严重 嚴重 | grave; serious; severe; critical | |
| 看来 看來 | apparently; it seems that | |
| 局 侷 | office; situation; classifier for games: match, set, round etc |