The Night 2021
良夜不能留
In 2019, the night in Hong Kong was still in fascinating beauty and the landscape of everyday life was gradually changing. Travelling the streets, Tsai Ming-liang documented the city's rhythm and ambience, along with an overpass.
Vocabulary
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| 半小时 半小時 | half hour | |
| 另一 另一 | another; the other | |
| 受够 受夠 | to have had enough of; to be fed up with; to have had one's fill of | |
| 工作人员 工作人員 | staff member | |
| 指称 指稱 | designation; reference; to refer to | |
| 死刑 死刑 | death penalty; capital punishment | |
| 味 味 | taste, smell, odor; delicacy | |
| 准备好了 準備好了 | to be ready | |
| 右转 右轉 | to turn right | |
| 回转 回轉 | variant of | |
| 平板 平板 | slab; flat board; (engineering) surface plate; flat; level; (fig.) dull; monotonous; abbr. for and | |
| 澡 澡 | wash, bathe | |
| 吉 吉 | lucky, propitious, good | |
| 身亡 身亡 | to die | |
| 活活 活活 | while still alive; simply; totally | |
| 几时 幾時 | at what time?; when? | |
| 赶来 趕來 | to rush over | |
| 该死 該死 | Damn it!; damned; wretched | |
| 牌子 牌子 | sign; trademark; brand | |
| 不安 不安 | unpeaceful; unstable; uneasy; disturbed; restless; worried | |
| 部长 部長 | head of a (government etc) department; section chief; section head; secretary; minister | |
| 才能 才能 | talent; ability; capacity | |
| 看起来 看起來 | seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appear to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be | |
| 开放 開放 | to bloom; to open; to be open (to the public); to open up (to the outside); to be open-minded; unrestrained by convention; unconstrained in one's sexuality | |
| 吵 吵 | to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise | |
| 赶快 趕快 | quickly; at once | |
| 眼前 眼前 | before one's eyes; now; at present | |
| 自从 自從 | since (a time); ever since | |
| 上去 上去 | to go up | |
| 烟 煙 | cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist; vapour; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke | |
| 紧急 緊急 | urgent; emergency | |
| 化 化 | to make into; to change into; -ization; to ... -ize; to transform; abbr. for 化学 | |
| 发出 發出 | to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch; to produce (a sound); to let out (a laugh) | |
| 反正 反正 | anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side | |
| 前面 前面 | ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qián mian] | |
| 钟 鐘 | clock; o'clock; time as measured in hours and minutes; bell | |
| 千万 千萬 | ten million; countless; many; one must by all means | |
| 布 佈 | cloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known | |
| 大概 大概 | roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea | |
| 破坏 破壞 | destruction; damage; to wreck; to break; to destroy | |
| 调 調 | to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody | |
| 保险 保險 | insurance; to insure; safe; secure; be sure; be bound to | |
| 直 直 | straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters | |
| 状况 狀況 | condition; state; situation | |
| 外面 外面 | outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance | |
| 显然 顯然 | clearly; evidently; obviously | |
| 空 空 | empty; air; sky; in vain | |
| 上面 上面 | on top of; above-mentioned; also pr. [shàng mian] | |
| 救 捄 | to save; to assist; to rescue | |
| 乱 亂 | in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary |