I Wish I Knew

I Wish I Knew 2010

hǎishàng chuán

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

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4.07 Intermediate Director Jia Zhangke 🍅 100%

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Vocabulary

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yuán xiān originally; original; former HSK 5
jiāo dài to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end HSK 5
zhōng duàn to cut short; to break off; to discontinue; to interrupt HSK 5
dài region; district HSK 5
huī gray; ash gray; grizzly; pessimistic; gloomy; dispirited; ambiguous HSK 5
西 西 zhuāng suit; Western-style clothes HSK 5
bǐng gān biscuit; cracker; cookie HSK 5
zhèng shū credentials; certificate HSK 5
zi box; case HSK 5
dǎn gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) HSK 5
cóng zhōng from within; therefrom HSK 5
jià to fight; to scuffle; to come to blows HSK 5
next door; neighbor HSK 5
shè yǐng shī photographer; cameraman HSK 5
shì li power; influence; a force (military, political etc) HSK 5
yóu to hesitate HSK 5
qín guqin 琴 (a type of zither); musical instrument in general HSK 5
qi polite; courteous; formal; modest HSK 5
guāng róng honor and glory; glorious HSK 5
gāng qín piano HSK 5
chuǎng to rush; to charge; to dash; to break through; to temper oneself (through battling hardships) HSK 5
háo proud (of one's achievements etc) HSK 5
zūn jìng to respect; to revere; to esteem; honorable; distinguished (used on formal occasions before a term of address) HSK 5
shì bedroom HSK 5
hǎo that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ... HSK 5
to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful HSK 5
běn script for play, opera, movie etc; screenplay; scenario HSK 5
shēn to stretch; to extend HSK 5
xià zi in a short while; all at once; all of a sudden HSK 5
tóu dock; pier; wharf HSK 5
貿 mào (commercial) trade HSK 5
zhǎng to rise (of prices, rivers) HSK 5
qún zhòng mass; multitude; the masses HSK 5
zhí to resign HSK 5
quàn to advise; to urge; to try to persuade; to exhort; to console; to soothe HSK 5
mǎi mài buying and selling; business; business transactions HSK 5
zhǐ shì to point out; to indicate; to instruct; directives; instructions HSK 5
jiā to press from either side; to place in between; to sandwich; to carry sth under armpit; wedged between; between; to intersperse; to mix; to mingle; clip; folder; Taiwan pr. [jiá] HSK 5
jiě fàng to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949 HSK 5
chāi to tear open; to tear down; to tear apart; to open HSK 5
lín neighbor; next door HSK 5
ruǎn soft; flexible HSK 5
chú fáng kitchen HSK 5
to crowd in; to cram in; to force others aside; to press; to squeeze; to find (time in one's busy schedule) HSK 5
nǎo zi brains; mind HSK 5
chū bǎn to publish HSK 5
small box; case HSK 5
dāng nián in those days; then; in those years; during that time HSK 5
shā to kill oneself; to commit suicide; to attempt suicide HSK 5
huà in a word; in short HSK 5