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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| 属于 屬於 | to be classified as; to belong to; to be part of | |
| 人民 人民 | the people | |
| 人生 人生 | life (one's time on earth) | |
| 理解 理解 | to comprehend; to understand | |
| 下去 下去 | to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw | |
| 社会 社會 | society | |
| 好好 好好 | well; carefully; nicely; properly | |
| 到底 到底 | finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last | |
| 线 線 | thread; string; wire; line; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | |
| 联系 聯繫 | connection; contact; relation; to get in touch with; to integrate; to link; to touch | |
| 里面 裡面 | inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] | |
| 区 區 | area; region; district; small; distinguish | |
| 总是 總是 | always | |
| 个人 個人 | individual; personal; oneself | |
| 马 馬 | horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess | |
| 城市 城市 | city; town | |
| 活 活 | to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | |
| 注意 注意 | to take note of; to pay attention to | |
| 保护 保護 | to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection | |
| 转 轉 | see 转文 | |
| 解决 解決 | to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc) | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 只有 只有 | only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | |
| 决定 決定 | to decide (to do something); to resolve; decision; certainly | |
| 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 | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 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 | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 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}) | |
| 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 |
| 重庆 重慶 | Chongqing municipality | Proper Noun |
| 四川 四川 | Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu | Proper Noun |
| 黄河 黃河 | Yellow River or Huang He | Proper Noun |
| 万里 萬里 | Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician | Proper Noun |
| 中国共产党 中國共產黨 | Communist Party of China | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 息 息 | rest, put stop to, end, cease | |
| 水位 水位 | water level |