Summer Palace 2006
颐和园
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
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Vocabulary
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| 愚蠢 愚蠢 | silly; stupid | |
| 相遇 相遇 | to meet; to encounter; to come across | |
| 钢 鋼 | steel | |
| 异性 異性 | the opposite sex; of the opposite sex; heterosexual; different in nature | |
| 气息 氣息 | breath; smell; odor; flavor | |
| 美妙 美妙 | beautiful; wonderful; splendid | |
| 致命 致命 | fatal; mortal; deadly; to sacrifice one's life | |
| 耐 耐 | (bound form) to bear; to endure; to withstand | |
| 谈论 談論 | to discuss; to talk about | |
| 与此同时 與此同時 | at the same time; meanwhile | |
| 陌生 陌生 | strange; unfamiliar | |
| 邪恶 邪惡 | sinister; vicious; wicked; evil | |
| 欲望 慾望 | desire; longing; appetite; craving | |
| 清晰 清晰 | clear; distinct | |
| 情人 情人 | lover; sweetheart | |
| 少女 少女 | girl; young lady | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 顺便 順便 | conveniently; in passing; without much extra effort | |
| 甩 甩 | to throw; to fling; to swing; to leave behind; to throw off; to dump (sb) | |
| 夜晚 夜晚 | night | |
| 注定 註定 | to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably | |
| 温柔 溫柔 | gentle and soft; tender; sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman) | |
| 蛮 蠻 | barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless | |
| 幕 幕 | curtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general; act (of a play) | |
| 竟 竟 | unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed | |
| 从未 從未 | never | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 灵魂 靈魂 | soul; spirit | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 性感 性感 | sex appeal; eroticism; sexuality; sexy | |
| 且 且 | and; moreover; yet; for the time being; to be about to; both (... and...) | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 有所 有所 | somewhat; to some extent | |
| 委员会 委員會 | committee | |
| 所谓 所謂 | so-called; what is called | |
| 丝 絲 | silk; thread; trace; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 形影相随 形影相隨 | lit. body and shadow follow each other (idiom); fig. inseparable | Idiom |
| 魂不守舍 魂不守舍 | to be preoccupied (idiom); to be inattentive; to be frightened out of one's mind | Idiom |
| 浪迹天涯 浪跡天涯 | to roam far and wide (idiom); to travel the world | Idiom |
| 如饥似渴 如飢似渴 | to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth | Idiom |