The Calm Beyond 2020
平静之外
A young woman lives, hidden in plain sight in a ruined Hong Kong building after a tsunami destroyed the city - a castaway on a concrete island. Her concealed existence is changed forever when a small child literally floats into her life.
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Vocabulary
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| 忘 忘 | to forget; to overlook; to neglect | |
| 不用 不用 | need not | |
| 教 教 | religion; teaching; to make; to cause; to tell | |
| 回到 回到 | to return to | |
| 床 床 | bed; couch; classifier for beds | |
| 试 試 | to test; to try; experiment; examination; test | |
| 热 熱 | to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent | |
| 白 白 | white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera | |
| 高兴 高興 | happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood | |
| 说话 說話 | to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word | |
| 女儿 女兒 | daughter | |
| 听到 聽到 | to hear | |
| 看见 看見 | to see; to catch sight of | |
| 名字 名字 | name (of a person or thing) | |
| 出去 出去 | to go out | |
| 那里 那裏 | there; that place | |
| 哪里 哪裏 | where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里 | |
| 歌 歌 | song; to sing | |
| 明白 明白 | clear; obvious; unequivocal; to understand; to realize | |
| 真的 真的 | really, truly, indeed | |
| 动 動 | (of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace; to touch; to make use of; to stir (emotions); to alter; abbr. for 动词, verb | |
| 五 五 | five; 5 | |
| 晚 晚 | evening; night; late | |
| 跑 跑 | (of an animal) to paw (the ground) | |
| 哪 哪 | how; which | |
| 间 間 | between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms | |
| 难 難 | difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good | |
| 别的 別的 | else; other | |
| 妈妈 媽媽 | mama; mommy; mother | |
| 第二 第二 | second; number two; next; secondary | |
| 谢谢 謝謝 | to thank; thanks; thank you | |
| 妈 媽 | ma; mom; mother | |
| 晚上 晚上 | evening; night; in the evening | |
| 回来 回來 | to return; to come back | |
| 明天 明天 | tomorrow | |
| 门 門 | gate; door; gateway; doorway; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy); classifier for large guns; classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology; (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) | |
| 正在 正在 | just at (that time); right in (that place); right in the middle of (doing sth) | |
| 玩 玩 | to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wàn]); to keep sth for entertainment | |
| 别人 別人 | other people; others; other person | |
| 帮 幫 | to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society | |
| 日 日 | abbr. for 本, Japan | |
| 女人 女人 | woman | |
| 送 送 | to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with | |
| 写 寫 | to write | |
| 水 水 | water; river; liquid; beverage; additional charges or income; (of clothes) classifier for number of washes | |
| 那些 那些 | those | |
| 得到 得到 | to get; to obtain; to receive | |
| 先 先 | early; prior; former; in advance; first | |
| 拿 㧱 | to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把: to mark the following noun as a direct object) | |
| 放 放 | to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks) |