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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| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 出人头地 出人頭地 | to stand out among one's peers (idiom); to excel | Idiom |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 猫 貓 | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 纽约 紐約 | New York | Proper Noun |
| 万年 萬年 | Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 中元节 中元節 | Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased | Proper Noun |
| 大都市 大都市 | metropolis; large city; megacity | Proper Noun |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 网红 網紅 | Internet celebrity; influencer; (attributive) popular on the Internet | |
| 大饭店 大飯店 | grand hotel; large, upscale hotel | |
| 科长 科長 | section chief | |
| 现身 現身 | to show oneself; to appear; (of a deity) to appear in the flesh | |
| 房客 房客 | tenant | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 才不 才不 | by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! | |
| 不只 不只 | not only; not merely | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 百万 百萬 | million | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 借过 借過 | excuse me (i.e. let me through, please) | |
| 坏掉 壞掉 | to get broken; to get damaged; to get ruined | |
| 网咖 網咖 | Internet café (Tw) | |
| 靠北 靠北 | (Tw) (slang) to rattle on; to carp; stop whining!; shut the hell up!; fuck!; damn! (from Taiwanese 哭爸, Tai-lo pr. [khàu-pē], "to cry over one's dad's death") | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 当做 當做 | to treat as; to regard as; to look upon as | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 全网 全網 | the entire Internet | |
| 所有人 所有人 | everyone; owner | |
| 放在眼里 放在眼裡 | to pay attention to; to care about; to attach importance to | |
| 风头 風頭 | wind direction; the way the wind blows; fig. trend; direction of events; how things develop (esp. how they affect oneself); public opinion (concerning one's actions); publicity (usually derog.); limelight | |
| 高中生 高中生 | senior high school student | |
| 今晚 今晚 | tonight | |
| 早知道 早知道 | If I had known earlier... |