The Ditch 2011
夹边沟
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 病房 病房 | ward (of a hospital); sickroom | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 挨 挨 | in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to | |
| 景 景 | (bound form) scenery; circumstance; situation; scene (of a play); (literary) sunlight | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 晓得 曉得 | to know | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 援助 援助 | to help; to support; to aid; aid; assistance | |
| 铺 鋪 | to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker | |
| 咋 咋 | dialectal equivalent of 怎么 | |
| 娃娃 娃娃 | baby; small child; doll | |
| 支援 支援 | to provide assistance; to support; to back | |
| 沿着 沿著 | to go along; to follow | |
| 老鼠 老鼠 | rat; mouse | |
| 当成 當成 | to consider as; to take to be | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 肺 肺 | lung | |
| 章 章 | chapter; section; clause; movement (of symphony); seal; badge; regulation; order | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 踩 跴 | to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote | |
| 煮 煑 | to cook; to boil | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 原谅 原諒 | to excuse; to forgive; to pardon | |
| 挖 挖 | to dig; to excavate; to scoop out | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 解 解 | to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection | |
| 情绪 情緒 | mood; state of mind; moodiness | |
| 说实话 說實話 | to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly | |
| 股 股 | thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (stock) share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions | |
| 藏 藏 | Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 死亡 死亡 | to die; death | |
| 超 超 | to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra-; super- | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 於 | (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 劳逸结合 勞逸結合 | to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom) | Idiom |
| 血口喷人 血口噴人 | to spit blood (idiom); venomous slander; malicious attacks | Idiom |
| 回光返照 迴光返照 | final radiance of setting sun; fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise) | Idiom |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 收拾 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 熊 熊 | bear; (coll.) to scold; to rebuke; (coll.) weak; incapable | Colloquialism |
| 董 董 | direct, supervise; surname | |
| 劳改 勞改 | abbr. for; reform through labor; laogai (prison camp) | |
| 骆 駱 | a white horse with black mane; a camel | |
| 毓 毓 | give birth to; bring up, educate | |
| 宏 宏 | wide, spacious, great, vast | |
| 关押 關押 | to imprison; to lock up (in jail) | |
| 瘩 瘩 | pimples |