One Second 2020
一秒钟
A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.
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Vocabulary
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| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 为人民服务 為人民服務 | Serve the People!, CCP political slogan | |
| 灯罩 燈罩 | cover of lamp; lampshade; glass cover of oil lamp | |
| 蒸馏水 蒸餾水 | distilled water | |
| 放映室 放映室 | cinema room; viewing room | |
| 侧耳 側耳 | to bend an ear (to); to listen | |
| 标兵 標兵 | parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes); example; model; pacesetter | |
| 包谷 包穀 | (dialect) corn; maize | |
| 猪狗不如 豬狗不如 | worse than a dog or pig; lower than low | |
| 不误 不誤 | used in expressions of the form 照V不誤|照V, in which V is a verb, means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照 | |
| 盼星星盼月亮 盼星星盼月亮 | to wish for the stars and the moon; to have unreal expectations | |
| 眼珠子 眼珠子 | eyeball; fig. the apple of one's eye (i.e. favorite person) | |
| 清点 清點 | to check; to make inventory | |
| 故事片 故事片 | fictional film; feature film | |
| 两码事 兩碼事 | two things that are fundamentally different from each other; two very different things | |
| 德行 德行 | morality and conduct; Taiwan pr. [de2 xing4] | |
| 蒸笼 蒸籠 | steamer basket (e.g. for dim sum) | |
| 刮伤 刮傷 | scratch (wound); scratch (damage to an object) | |
| 浮土 浮土 | topsoil; surface dust | |
| 粉条 粉條 | vermicelli made from mung bean starch etc | |
| 扬长 揚長 | with swagger; ostentatiously; to make the best use of one's strengths | |
| 各行各业 各行各業 | every trade; all professions; all walks of life | |
| 手印 手印 | handprint; fingerprint; thumbprint | |
| 抵赖 抵賴 | to refuse to admit (what one has done); to disavow; to renege | |
| 磨叽 磨嘰 | (dialect) to dawdle; to waste time; also written | |
| 欠揍 欠揍 | to need a spanking | |
| 开炮 開砲 | to open fire | |
| 响雷 響雷 | to be thundering; thunder clap | |
| 战旗 戰旗 | a war flag; an army banner | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child | |
| 凶器 兇器 | lethal weapon; murder weapon | |
| 误伤 誤傷 | to injure accidentally; accidental injury | |
| 大功 大功 | great merit; great service | |
| 泡馍 泡饃 | meat and bread soup (a specialty of Shaanxi cuisine) | |
| 台灯 檯燈 | desk lamp; table lamp | |
| 礼堂 禮堂 | assembly hall; auditorium | |
| 觉悟 覺悟 | to come to understand; to realize; consciousness; awareness; Buddhist enlightenment (Sanskrit: cittotpāda) | |
| 勺 勺 | spoon; ladle; abbr. for 勺, centiliter (unit of volume) | |
| 切实 切實 | feasible; realistic; practical; earnestly; conscientiously | |
| 一道 一道 | together | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 马车 馬車 | cart; chariot; carriage; buggy | |
| 花生 花生 | peanut; groundnut | |
| 拿走 拿走 | to take away | |
| 传出 傳出 | to transmit outwards; to disseminate; efferent (nerve) | |
| 上台 上台 | to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater) | |
| 清洗 清洗 | to wash; to clean; to purge | |
| 牢 牢 | firm; sturdy; fold (for animals); sacrifice; prison | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role |