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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| 好事 好事 | good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead | |
| 好处 好處 | easy to get along with | |
| 安静 安靜 | quiet; peaceful; calm | |
| 院 院 | courtyard; institution | |
| 放心 放心 | to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease | |
| 舒服 舒服 | comfortable; feeling well | |
| 响 響 | echo; sound; noise; to make a sound; to sound; to ring; loud; classifier for noises | |
| 的话 的話 | if (coming after a conditional clause) | |
| 公平 公平 | fair; impartial | |
| 随便 隨便 | as one wishes; as one pleases; at random; negligent; casual; wanton | |
| 可怕 可怕 | awful; dreadful; fearful; formidable; frightful; scary; hideous; horrible; terrible; terribly | |
| 太阳 太陽 | sun; abbr. for 太阳穴 | |
| 灯 燈 | lamp; light; lantern | |
| 好多 好多 | many; quite a lot; much better | |
| 千 千 | thousand | |
| 味道 味道 | flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor | |
| 出口 出口 | an exit; to speak; to export; (of a ship) to leave port | |
| 照顾 照顧 | to take care of; to show consideration; to attend to; to look after | |
| 交给 交給 | to give; to deliver; to hand over | |
| 怎么办 怎麼辦 | what's to be done | |
| 小心 小心 | to be careful; to take care | |
| 遍 徧 | everywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time | |
| 实在 實在 | really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality | |
| 喂 喂 | hello (when answering the phone) | |
| 油 油 | oil; fat; grease; petroleum; to apply tung oil, paint or varnish; oily; greasy; glib; cunning | |
| 推 推 | to push; to cut; to refuse; to reject; to decline; to shirk (responsibility); to put off; to delay; to push forward; to nominate; to elect; massage | |
| 留下 留下 | to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain; to keep; not to let (sb) go | |
| 通 通 | classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc) | |
| 刚才 剛才 | just now; a moment ago | |
| 晚安 晚安 | Good night!; Good evening! | |
| 年轻 年輕 | young | |
| 十分 十分 | very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts | |
| 夜 亱 | night | |
| 加油 加油 | to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel; to accelerate; to step on the gas; (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on | |
| 后来 後來 | afterwards; later; newly arrived | |
| 意思 意思 | idea; opinion; meaning; wish; desire; interest; fun; token of appreciation, affection etc; to give as a small token; to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc | |
| 说明 說明 | to explain; to illustrate; to indicate; to show; to prove; explanation; directions; caption | |
| 弄 弄 | lane; alley | |
| 漂亮 漂亮 | pretty; beautiful | |
| 哭 哭 | to cry; to weep | |
| 声音 聲音 | voice; sound | |
| 怎样 怎樣 | how; what kind | |
| 眼睛 眼睛 | eye | |
| 可爱 可愛 | adorable; cute; lovely | |
| 欢迎 歡迎 | to welcome; welcome | |
| 倒 倒 | to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit | |
| 故事 故事 | old practice | |
| 清楚 清楚 | clear; distinct; to understand thoroughly; to be clear about | |
| 照片 照片 | photograph; picture | |
| 眼 眼 | eye; small hole; crux (of a matter); classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc) |