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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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Yuán robe; surname ∼HSK 5
fēng maple tree ∼HSK 5
Yān swallow (bird); comfort, enjoy ∼HSK 5
surname; a musical note ∼HSK 5
líng tinkling of jade ∼HSK 5
Xuē kind of marsh grass; feudal state ∼HSK 5
zěn how (variant of 怎么) ∼HSK 5
láo dòng zhě worker; laborer ∼HSK 5
dài gōu generation gap ∼HSK 5
xié yǎn to look askance; cross or wall-eyed ∼HSK 5
gōng nóng bīng workers, peasants, and soldiers; the proletariat ∼HSK 5
shí liu pomegranate ∼HSK 5
xiǎo father's youngest sister; husband's younger sister; sister-in-law ∼HSK 5
huī brightness, luster, brilliance ∼HSK 5
lái jìn (dialect) to be full of zeal; high-spirited; exhilarating; to stir sb up ∼HSK 5
sǎng mén voice; windpipe ∼HSK 5
quán shuǐ spring water ∼HSK 5
jìng qiāo qiāo extremely quiet ∼HSK 5
zhàn jiàn battleship; warship ∼HSK 5
liǔ méi long, shapely eyebrows ∼HSK 5
huà méi to apply makeup to the eyebrows; (bird species of China) Chinese hwamei (Garrulax canorus) ∼HSK 5
duì jìn suitable; to one's liking; to get along together ∼HSK 5
lǎo ye master, sir ∼HSK 5
shén yāo huà what kind of talk ∼HSK 5
shén jīng bìng mental disorder; neuropathy; (derog.) mental case ∼HSK 5
Hǎo surname; place in modern Shanxi ∼HSK 5
Hóu marquis, lord; target in archery ∼HSK 5
xiǎo (ironically) "secretary" (i.e. boss's mistress) ∼HSK 5
hán city in Hebei province; various ∼HSK 5
zhōng inner feelings ∼HSK 5
cào fuck your mother (vulgar) ∼HSK 5
zhī qīng educated youth (esp. those sent to work in rural areas during the Cultural Revolution) ∼HSK 5
jūn wěi Military Commission of the Communist Party Central Committee ∼HSK 5
zhōng yāng jūn wěi Central Military Committee (CMC) ∼HSK 5
lìng yuán commander ∼HSK 5
sān jūn (in former times) upper, middle and lower army; army of right, center and left; (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force ∼HSK 5
méi general facial appearance; features; arrangement; sequence of ideas; logic (of writing); rough sketch or general idea of things ∼HSK 5
zhī shēng to utter a word; to make a sound; to cheep; to squeak; also pr. [zi1 sheng1] ∼HSK 5
méi yóu kerosene ∼HSK 5
hēi dòng dòng pitch-dark ∼HSK 5
méi matchmaker ∼HSK 5
fàng shēng very loudly; at the top of one's voice ∼HSK 5
Jìn surname Jin ∼HSK 5
what (literary) ∼HSK 5
tīng qīng to hear clearly ∼HSK 5
yíng entangle, entwine, coil ∼HSK 5
guǎn zěn yàng in any case; no matter what ∼HSK 5
dāi hui wait a minute; stop a while ∼HSK 5
xiāng side-room, wing; theatre box ∼HSK 5
biāo tiger; tiger stripes; tiger-like ∼HSK 5