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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| 职工 職工 | workers; staff | |
| 农村 農村 | rural area; village | |
| 被子 被子 | quilt | |
| 节约 節約 | to economize; to conserve (resources); economy; frugal | |
| 老百姓 老百姓 | ordinary people; the "person in the street" | |
| 一方面 一方面 | on the one hand | |
| 气候 氣候 | (meteorology) climate; (fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs) | |
| 前后 前後 | around; from beginning to end; all around; front and rear | |
| 大夫 大夫 | senior official (in imperial China) | |
| 农业 農業 | agriculture; farming | |
| 开展 開展 | to launch; to develop; to unfold; (of an exhibition etc) to open | |
| 底下 底下 | the location below sth; afterwards | |
| 工程师 工程師 | engineer | |
| 牌子 牌子 | sign; trademark; brand | |
| 本事 本事 | source material; original story | |
| 冬 冬 | winter | |
| 行李 行李 | luggage | |
| 另一方面 另一方面 | on the other hand; another aspect | |
| 总结 總結 | to sum up; to conclude; summary; résumé | |
| 比例 比例 | proportion; scale | |
| 反复 反覆 | repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return | |
| 整整 整整 | whole; full | |
| 家乡 家鄉 | hometown; native place | |
| 铁路 鐵路 | railroad; railway | |
| 头脑 頭腦 | brains; mind; skull; (fig.) gist (of a matter); leader; boss | |
| 建设 建設 | to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute | |
| 文字 文字 | character; script; writing; written language; writing style; phraseology | |
| 补充 補充 | to replenish; to supplement; to complement; additional; supplementary | |
| 决心 決心 | determination; resolution; determined; firm and resolute; to make up one's mind | |
| 可靠 可靠 | reliable | |
| 分配 分配 | to distribute; to assign; to allocate; to partition (a hard drive) | |
| 集体 集體 | collective (decision); joint (effort); a group; a team; en masse; as a group | |
| 运输 運輸 | to transport; to carry; transportation | |
| 民族 民族 | nationality; ethnic group | |
| 农民 農民 | peasant; farmer | |
| 基本上 基本上 | basically; on the whole | |
| 推进 推進 | to impel; to carry forward; to push on; to advance; to drive forward | |
| 部长 部長 | head of a (government etc) department; section chief; section head; secretary; minister | |
| 去世 去世 | to pass away; to die | |
| 整天 整天 | all day long; whole day | |
| 自身 自身 | itself; oneself; one's own | |
| 改造 改造 | to transform; to reform; to remodel; to remold | |
| 才能 才能 | talent; ability; capacity | |
| 访问 訪問 | to visit; to call on; to interview | |
| 石头 石頭 | stone | |
| 上来 上來 | to come up; to approach; (verb complement indicating success) | |
| 静 靜 | still; calm; quiet; not moving | |
| 放到 放到 | Put in | |
| 看起来 看起來 | seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appear to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be | |
| 把握 把握 | to grasp (also fig.); to seize; to hold; assurance; certainty; sure (of the outcome) |