Unknown Pleasures 2002
任逍遥
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
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Vocabulary
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| 开除 開除 | to expel (a member of an organization); to fire (an employee) | |
| 胎 胎 | fetus; classifier for litters (of puppies etc); padding (in clothing or bedding); womb carrying a fetus; (fig.) origin; source; (loanword) tire | |
| 皇后 皇后 | empress; imperial consort | |
| 奥运会 奧運會 | abbr. for 奥林匹克运动会; Olympic Games; the Olympics | |
| 消 消 | to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不 or 只 or 何 etc) to need; to require; to take | |
| 担 擔 | to undertake; to carry; to shoulder; to take responsibility | |
| 规矩 規矩 | lit. compass and set square; fig. established standard; rule; customs; practices; fig. upright and honest; well-behaved | |
| 倒霉 倒霉 | to have bad luck; to be out of luck | |
| 卡车 卡車 | truck | |
| 哎呀 哎呀 | interjection of wonder, shock or admiration | |
| 爹 爹 | dad | |
| 讨 討 | to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 尚 尚 | still; yet; to value; to esteem | |
| 依 依 | to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to; in the light of | |
| 钥匙 鑰匙 | key | |
| 抢劫 搶劫 | to rob; looting | |
| 失踪 失蹤 | to be missing; to disappear; unaccounted for | |
| 哼 哼 | to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 凌晨 凌晨 | very early in the morning; in the wee hours | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 注 註 | to register; to annotate; note; comment | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 即 即 | namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 惹不起 惹不起 | can't afford to offend; dare not provoke; difficult to deal with; insufferable | Xiehouyu |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 纺织厂 紡織廠 | textile factory; cotton mill | |
| 苍天 蒼天 | firmament | |
| 飘飘 飄飄 | to float about; to flutter (in the breeze); (dialect) gay guy; (Tw) ghost | |
| 打劫 打劫 | to loot; to rob; to plunder; to ransack | |
| 嚷嚷 嚷嚷 | to argue noisily; to shout; to make widely known; to reproach | |
| 为人民服务 為人民服務 | Serve the People!, CCP political slogan | |
| 正宫娘娘 正宮娘娘 | empress | |
| 化斋 化齋 | beg for alms food | |
| 不顺 不順 | unfavorable; adverse | |
| 老儿 老兒 | old man (familiar) | |
| 惨剧 慘劇 | tragedy; calamity; atrocity | |
| 磨磨蹭蹭 磨磨蹭蹭 | to dillydally; slow-going | |
| 啥子 啥子 | (dialect) what | |
| 矿务局 礦務局 | mining affairs bureau | |
| 塞给 塞給 | to slip sb sth; to press sb to accept sth; to insert surreptitiously; to foist sth off on sb |