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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| 调查 調查 | investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll | |
| 者 者 | (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this | |
| 当然 當然 | only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 每 每 | each; every | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 上脸 上臉 | to turn red in the face (while drinking); to become smug (when complimented) | Xiehouyu |
| 完事 完事 | to be finished (with sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 乌克兰 烏克蘭 | Ukraine | Proper Noun |
| 省长 省長 | governor of a province | Proper Noun |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 操 撡 | conduct, run, control, manage | |
| 交钱 交錢 | to pay up; to shell out; to hand over the money to cover sth | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 喝酒 喝酒 | to drink (alcohol) | |
| 案 案 | table, bench; legal case | |
| 听懂 聽懂 | to understand (on hearing); to catch (what is spoken) | |
| 借钱 借錢 | to borrow money; to lend money | |
| 不得 不得 | must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot | |
| 上算 上算 | to be worthwhile; to be worth it | |
| 不带 不帶 | not to have; without; un- | |
| 换钱 換錢 | to change money; to sell | |
| 头子 頭子 | boss; gang leader | |
| 维 維 | maintain, preserve, safeguard | |
| 满身 滿身 | covered all over | |
| 想通 想通 | to figure out; to realize; to become convinced; to come round (to an idea); to get over it | |
| 建国 建國 | to found a country; nation-building; the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949 | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 介 介 | forerunner, herald, harbinger; to lie between; sea shell; to wear armor | |
| 那咱 那咱 | at that time (old) | |
| 走向 走向 | direction; strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology); inclination; trend; to move towards; to head for | |
| 考完 考完 | to finish an exam | |
| 一遍 一遍 | one time (all the way through); once through | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 市里 市裡 | li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters) |