Still Life

Still Life 2006

sānxiá hǎorén

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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3.57 Beginner Director Jia Zhangke 🍅 91%

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Vocabulary

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dēng 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) HSK 4
gōng chéng engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking HSK 4
cái chǎn property; assets; estate HSK 4
bīng soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike HSK 4
zhǔ chairperson; premier; chairman HSK 4
guī 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 HSK 4
nào 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 HSK 4
shì lady; madam; Miss; Ms HSK 4
hào number HSK 4
tiē 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 HSK 4
rán still; as before HSK 4
rén jiā household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be HSK 4
graduation; to graduate; to finish school HSK 4
chōu 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 HSK 4
huge; immense; very large; tremendous; gigantic; enormous HSK 4
zhù míng famous; noted; well-known; celebrated HSK 4
ēn (a groaning sound) HSK 4
guài bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather HSK 4
shī lawyer HSK 4
qīn ài dear; beloved; darling HSK 4
gēn root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) HSK 4
zhǐ address HSK 4
xiōng brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal HSK 4
wáng king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great HSK 4
guǎn not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter HSK 4
law HSK 4
narrow HSK 4
gēn according to; based on; basis; foundation HSK 4
xiē classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several HSK 4
ya (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) HSK 4
this; these HSK 4
liǎo jiě to understand; to realize; to find out HSK 4
ér and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) HSK 4
méi yòng useless Xiehouyu HSK 3
chǎng zi (coll.) factory; mill; yard; depot Colloquialism ∼HSK 3
gǎn mào to catch cold; (common) cold; (coll.) to be interested in (often used in the negative); (Tw) to detest; can't stand Colloquialism HSK 3
shū to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) Colloquialism HSK 3
zhěng 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 HSK 3
guǎn 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 HSK 3
Yún yáng Yunyang, a county in Chongqing Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Xià mén Xiamen, sub-provincial city in Fujian Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
lǎo chéng old town; old district of a city Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Liáo níng Liaoning Province, capital Shenyang Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Tài bǎo Taibao or Taipao city in Chiayi County, west Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
jìn chéng to go to town; to enter a big city (to live or work) Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Xiàn He County or Hexian, a county in Ma'anshan, Anhui Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
lǎo zǒng 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 ∼HSK 3
Bái Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Jiàn háng China Construction Bank Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
Chǔ name of feudal state; clear ∼HSK 3