Platform 2001
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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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Vocabulary
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| 活 活 | to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | |
| 注意 注意 | to take note of; to pay attention to | |
| 能力 能力 | capability; ability | |
| 强 強 | stubborn; unyielding | |
| 转 轉 | see 转文 | |
| 当然 當然 | only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 其实 其實 | actually; in fact; really | |
| 受 受 | to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) | |
| 任何 任何 | any; whatever; whichever; whatsoever | |
| 由 由 | to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 关系 關係 | relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 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}) | |
| 不要脸 不要臉 | to have no sense of shame; shameless | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 场子 場子 | (coll.) gathering place; public venue | Colloquialism |
| 干活儿 幹活兒 | erhua variant of 干活; (coll.) to work; (coll.) to be employed | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | 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 |
| 深圳 深圳 | Shenzhen, sub-provincial city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 巴黎 巴黎 | Paris, capital of France | Proper Noun |
| 加里 加里 | Gary (name) | Proper Noun |
| 西班牙 西班牙 | Spain | Proper Noun |
| 邓小平 鄧小平 | Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" | Proper Noun |
| 北京市 北京市 | Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China | Proper Noun |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 站长 站長 | person in charge of a train station (stationmaster), website (webmaster), volunteer center (center manager), etc | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 象 象 | elephant; ivory; figure, image | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 不可能 不可能 | impossible; cannot; not able | |
| 英 英 | petal, flower, leaf; brave, a hero; England, English | |
| 工作者 工作者 | worker | |
| 孩子们 孩子們 | children | |
| 体位 體位 | posture |