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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| 流浪 流浪 | to drift about; to wander; to roam; nomadic; homeless; unsettled (e.g. population); vagrant | |
| 是非 是非 | right and wrong; quarrel | |
| 流血 流血 | to bleed; to shed blood | |
| 开除 開除 | to expel (a member of an organization); to fire (an employee) | |
| 性命 性命 | life | |
| 工地 工地 | construction site | |
| 筒 筒 | tube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc) | |
| 捅 捅 | to stab; to poke; to prod; to nudge; to disclose | |
| 双重 雙重 | double | |
| 新生 新生 | new; newborn; emerging; nascent; rebirth; regeneration; new life; new student | |
| 审 審 | to examine; to investigate; carefully; to try (in court) | |
| 安心 安心 | at ease; to feel relieved; to set one's mind at rest; to keep one's mind on sth | |
| 不惜 不惜 | not stint; not spare; not hesitate (to do sth); not scruple (to do sth) | |
| 垫 墊 | pad; cushion; mat; to pad out; to fill a gap; to pay for sb; to advance (money) | |
| 截 截 | to cut off (a length); to stop; to intercept; section; chunk; length | |
| 训 訓 | to teach; to train; to admonish; instruction (from superiors); teachings; rule | |
| 农场 農場 | farm | |
| 限 限 | to limit; to restrict; (bound form) limit; bound | |
| 灌 灌 | to irrigate; to pour; to install (software); to record (music) | |
| 消 消 | to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不 or 只 or 何 etc) to need; to require; to take | |
| 担 擔 | picul (100 catties, 50 kg); two buckets full; carrying pole and its load; classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole | |
| 作风 作風 | style; style of work; way | |
| 毫不 毫不 | hardly; not in the least; not at all | |
| 人性 人性 | human nature; humanity; human; the totality of human attributes | |
| 隔离 隔離 | to separate; to isolate | |
| 指望 指望 | to count on; to hope for; prospect; hope | |
| 撤 撤 | to remove; to take away | |
| 精心 精心 | with utmost care; fine; meticulous; detailed | |
| 魂 䰟 | soul; spirit; immortal soul (that can be detached from the body) | |
| 浑身 渾身 | all over; from head to foot | |
| 功 功 | meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics) | |
| 报复 報復 | to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation | |
| 哎呀 哎呀 | interjection of wonder, shock or admiration | |
| 割 割 | to cut; to cut apart | |
| 有意 有意 | to intend; intentionally; interested in | |
| 抹 抹 | to wipe | |
| 化妆 化妝 | to put on makeup | |
| 熬 熬 | to boil; to simmer | |
| 事务 事務 | (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database) | |
| 购 購 | to buy; to purchase | |
| 宗 宗 | school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs | |
| 坑 坑 | pit; depression; hollow; tunnel; hole in the ground; (archaic) to bury alive; to hoodwink; to cheat (sb) | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 折磨 折磨 | to torment; to torture | |
| 逮捕 逮捕 | to arrest; to apprehend; an arrest | |
| 寻 尋 | to search; to look for; to seek | |
| 人体 人體 | human body | |
| 堂 堂 | (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture | |
| 皆 皆 | all; each and every; in all cases | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb |