Still Life 2006
三峡好人
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
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Vocabulary
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| 登 登 | to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) | |
| 工程 工程 | engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking | |
| 财产 財產 | property; assets; estate | |
| 兵 兵 | soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike | |
| 主席 主席 | chairperson; premier; chairman | |
| 归 歸 | to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | |
| 闹 鬧 | noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke | |
| 女士 女士 | lady; madam; Miss; Ms | |
| 号码 號碼 | number | |
| 贴 貼 | to stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog); to keep close to; to fit snugly; to subsidize; allowance (e.g. money for food or housing); sticker; classifier for sticking plaster: strip | |
| 依然 依然 | still; as before | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 毕业 畢業 | graduation; to graduate; to finish school | |
| 抽 抽 | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash | |
| 巨大 巨大 | huge; immense; very large; tremendous; gigantic; enormous | |
| 著名 著名 | famous; noted; well-known; celebrated | |
| 嗯 嗯 | (a groaning sound) | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 律师 律師 | lawyer | |
| 亲爱 親愛 | dear; beloved; darling | |
| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 地址 地址 | address | |
| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 王 王 | king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great | |
| 不管 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 法律 法律 | law | |
| 局 侷 | narrow | |
| 根据 根據 | according to; based on; basis; foundation | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 此 此 | this; these | |
| 了解 了解 | to understand; to realize; to find out | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 厂子 廠子 | (coll.) factory; mill; yard; depot | Colloquialism |
| 感冒 感冒 | to catch cold; (common) cold; (coll.) to be interested in (often used in the negative); (Tw) to detest; can't stand | Colloquialism |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 整 整 | exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 云阳 雲陽 | Yunyang, a county in Chongqing | Proper Noun |
| 厦门 廈門 | Xiamen, sub-provincial city in Fujian Province | Proper Noun |
| 老城 老城 | old town; old district of a city | Proper Noun |
| 辽宁 遼寧 | Liaoning Province, capital Shenyang | Proper Noun |
| 太保 太保 | Taibao or Taipao city in Chiayi County, west Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 进城 進城 | to go to town; to enter a big city (to live or work) | Proper Noun |
| 和县 和縣 | He County or Hexian, a county in Ma'anshan, Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 老总 老總 | boss; sir (person with a leading role in an organization); (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA; (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official; (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file | Proper Noun |
| 李白 李白 | Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet | Proper Noun |
| 建行 建行 | China Construction Bank | Proper Noun |
| 楚 楚 | name of feudal state; clear |