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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| 但 但 | but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 不动 不動 | motionless | Xiehouyu |
| 一小撮 一小撮 | handful (of) | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乾 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 吃的 吃的 | (coll.) food | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 不行了 不行了 | (coll.) on the point of death; dying | Colloquialism |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 打的 打的 | (coll.) to take a taxi; to go by taxi | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 一块儿 一塊兒 | erhua variant of 一块; a piece; a chunk; (coll.) one yuan; one dollar | Colloquialism |
| 菜 菜 | dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor | Colloquialism |
| 肉 肉 | meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130 | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 着 著 | to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in | Colloquialism |
| 明水 明水 | Mingshui county in Suihua 綏化|绥化, Heilongjiang | Proper Noun |
| 共产党 共產黨 | Communist Party | Proper Noun |
| 陕西 陝西 | Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an | Proper Noun |
| 四月 四月 | April; fourth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 毛泽东 毛澤東 | Mao Zedong (1893-1976), leader of the Chinese Communist Party 1935-1976 | Proper Noun |
| 十一月 十一月 | November; eleventh month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 中站 中站 | Zhongzhan district of Jiaozuo city, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 打下 打下 | to lay (a foundation); to conquer (a city etc); to shoot down (a bird etc) | Proper Noun |
| 陕北 陝北 | Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地|革命圣地 | Proper Noun |
| 上都 上都 | Shangdu, also known as Xanadu, summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) | Proper Noun |
| 十一 十一 | PRC National Day (October 1st) | Proper Noun |
| 五月 五月 | May; fifth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 十月 十月 | October; tenth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 十二月 十二月 | December; twelfth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 榆中 榆中 | Yuzhong county in Lanzhou, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 水里 水裡 | Shuili Township in Nantou County, central Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 老子 老子 | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi | Proper Noun |
| 朝鲜 朝鮮 | North Korea; Korea as geographic term; Taiwan pr. [Chao2xian1] | Proper Noun |
| 三月 三月 | March; third month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 天水 天水 | Tianshui, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 有一些 有一些 | somewhat; rather; some | |
| 男孩儿 男孩兒 | erhua variant of 男孩; boy | |
| 说起来 說起來 | Say | |
| 吃不上 吃不上 | unable to get anything to eat; to miss a meal | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this |