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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| 上风 上風 | on the up; currently winning; rising (in popularity etc) | |
| 怎么回事 怎麼回事 | what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? | |
| 拿起 拿起 | to pick up | |
| 小过 小過 | little mistake; minor offense; slightly too much | |
| 对我来说 對我來說 | as far as I'm concerned | |
| 跟人 跟人 | to marry (of woman) | |
| 好几 好幾 | several; quite a few | |
| 我人 我人 | we | |
| 菜地 菜地 | vegetable field | |
| 帮会 幫會 | secret society; underworld gang | |
| 话说 話說 | It is said that... (at the start of a narrative); to discuss; to recount | |
| 本本 本本 | notebook computer (diminutive); laptop | |
| 看不出 看不出 | can't discern | |
| 那天 那天 | that day; the other day | |
| 天天 天天 | every day | |
| 高个子 高個子 | tall person; (of a person) tall | |
| 年间 年間 | in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade) | |
| 放出 放出 | to let off; to give out | |
| 找不到 找不到 | can't find | |
| 说不上 說不上 | to be unable to say or tell; to not be worth mentioning | |
| 一家人 一家人 | household; the whole family | |
| 知识分子 知識分子 | intellectual; intelligentsia; learned person | |
| 西边 西邊 | west; west side; western part; to the west of | |
| 里边 裡邊 | inside | |
| 过不去 過不去 | to make life difficult for; to embarrass; unable to make it through | |
| 渴 渴 | thirsty | |
| 后天 後天 | the day after tomorrow; life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 天); acquired (not innate or congenital); a posteriori | |
| 看病 看病 | to visit a doctor; to see a patient | |
| 书店 書店 | bookstore | |
| 走路 走路 | to walk; to go on foot | |
| 开会 開會 | to hold a meeting; to attend a meeting | |
| 中学 中學 | middle school | |
| 小学 小學 | elementary school; primary school | |
| 零 零 | zero; nought; zero sign; fractional; fragmentary; odd (of numbers); (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one); fraction; (in mathematics) remainder (after division); extra; to wither and fall; to wither | |
| 坐下 坐下 | to sit down | |
| 姐 姐 | older sister | |
| 下班 下班 | to finish work; to get off work | |
| 上学 上學 | to go to school; to attend school | |
| 上次 上次 | last time | |
| 火车 火車 | train | |
| 这边 這邊 | this side; here | |
| 奶 奶 | breast; milk; to breastfeed | |
| 干什么 幹什麼 | what are you doing?; what's he up to? | |
| 开车 開車 | to drive a car | |
| 是不是 是不是 | is or isn't; yes or no; whether or not | |
| 中午 中午 | noon; midday | |
| 不对 不對 | incorrect; wrong; amiss; abnormal; queer | |
| 哪儿 哪兒 | where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? | |
| 这儿 這兒 | here | |
| 百 百 | hundred; numerous; all kinds of |