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Platform 2001

zhàntái

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

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4.03 Intermediate Director Jia Zhangke 🍅 80%

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Vocabulary

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tiě iron (metal); arms; weapons; hard; strong; violent; unshakeable; determined; close; tight (slang) HSK 3
shàng to go up HSK 3
to bewilder; crazy about; fan; enthusiast; lost; confused HSK 3
gǎn to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time) HSK 3
shēng life force; vitality HSK 3
yān cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist; vapour; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke HSK 3
science and technology HSK 3
yáng guāng sunshine; (of personality) upbeat; energetic; transparent (open to public scrutiny) HSK 3
fáng to protect; to defend; to guard against; to prevent HSK 3
fèi to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses HSK 3
gǎn jǐn hurriedly; without delay HSK 3
nèi xīn heart; innermost being; (math.) incenter HSK 3
fǎn zhèng anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side HSK 3
duì xiàng target; object; partner; boyfriend; girlfriend HSK 3
kùn to trap; to surround; hard-pressed; stranded; destitute HSK 3
jīn funds; capital HSK 3
xiū to decorate; to embellish; to repair; to build; to write; to cultivate; to study; to take (a class) HSK 3
yǒu to have; to possess HSK 3
biǎo míng to make clear; to make known; to state clearly; to indicate; known HSK 3
zhōng clock; o'clock; time as measured in hours and minutes; bell HSK 3
qiān wàn ten million; countless; many; one must by all means HSK 3
duàn to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly HSK 3
to press; to push down; to keep under (control); pressure HSK 3
100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗 HSK 3
yǎn yuán actor or actress; performer HSK 3
wén huà culture; civilization; cultural HSK 3
dùn to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal HSK 3
tuán round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke) HSK 3
zhū hog; pig; swine HSK 3
yǎn chū to act (in a play); to perform; to put on (a performance); performance; concert; show HSK 3
hài to be afraid; to be scared HSK 3
xiǎng thought; thinking; idea; ideology HSK 3
zhǒng every kind of; all kinds of; various HSK 3
fan trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble HSK 3
shù art HSK 3
niang girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old) HSK 3
xià miàn below; under; next; the following; also pr. [xià mian] HSK 3
dài to substitute; to act on behalf of others; to replace; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon HSK 3
shèng victory HSK 3
nián dài a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period HSK 3
leather; skin; fur; pico- (one trillionth); naughty HSK 3
zhǔn to allow; to grant; in accordance with; in the light of HSK 3
(onom.) laughing out loud HSK 3
wěi huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc) HSK 3
zuò pǐn work (of art); opus HSK 3
jià to support; frame; rack; framework; classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc HSK 3
zuǒ yòu left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence HSK 3
hòu mian the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards HSK 3
broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of HSK 3
zhōng to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together HSK 3