Dead Talents Society 2024
诡才之道
When ghosts must compete to survive in the underworld by haunting the living, one unassuming young woman needs help creating a lasting performance while under the tutelage of a passionate agent and a washed-up diva.
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Vocabulary
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| 各就各位 各就各位 | (of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom); (athletics) On your mark! | Idiom |
| 吃香 吃香 | popular; in demand; well regarded | Xiehouyu |
| 亲 親 | parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear | Xiehouyu |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 大城市 大城市 | major city; metropolis | Proper Noun |
| 萨 薩 | Buddhist gods or immortals | |
| 活人 活人 | living person | |
| 耶 耶 | used in transliteration | |
| 委 委 | appoint, send, commission | |
| 骚 騷 | harass, bother, annoy, disturb | |
| 赞 贊 | help, support, assist, aid | |
| 使出 使出 | to use; to exert | |
| 在台 在臺 | in Taiwan (used attributively) | |
| 跳楼 跳樓 | to jump from a building (to kill oneself); fig. to sell at a large discount (in advertising) | |
| 派对 派對 | (loanword) party | |
| 活着 活著 | alive | |
| 湾 灣 | bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream | |
| 吴 吳 | name of warring state; surname | |
| 会客室 會客室 | parlor | |
| 阳间 陽間 | the world of the living | |
| 生日快乐 生日快樂 | Happy birthday | |
| 谋杀 謀殺 | to murder; to assassinate; intentional homicide | |
| 到时候 到時候 | when the moment comes; at that time | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 好久不见 好久不見 | long time no see | |
| 死后 死後 | after death; posthumous | |
| 上线 上線 | to go online; to put sth online; to reach a specific standard; to put into production; handler | |
| 众 眾 | multitude, crowd; masses, public | |
| 味 味 | taste, smell, odor; delicacy | |
| 金汤 金湯 | impregnable fortress | |
| 牛排 牛排 | steak | |
| 工作人员 工作人員 | staff member | |
| 双腿 雙腿 | legs; both legs; two legs | |
| 要死 要死 | extremely; awfully | |
| 对齐 對齊 | to align; (typography) to justify | |
| 转轴 轉軸 | axis of rotation | |
| 动线 動線 | path taken by people moving through a space; flowline (in architecture, interior design, urban planning etc) | |
| 蜗牛 蝸牛 | snail; Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2] | |
| 把头 把頭 | labor contractor; gangmaster | |
| 死活 死活 | life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me | |
| 张嘴 張嘴 | to open one's mouth (to speak, esp. to make a request); to gape | |
| 嚣张 囂張 | rampant; unbridled; arrogant; aggressive | |
| 在世 在世 | to be alive | |
| 老派 老派 | old-fashioned; old-school | |
| 跳过 跳過 | to jump over; to skip (a step, chapter etc) | |
| 香菜 香菜 | coriander; cilantro; Coriandrum sativum | |
| 另一 另一 | another; the other | |
| 录影 錄影 | to videotape; to videorecord |