Unknown Pleasures

Unknown Pleasures 2002

rén xiāoyáo

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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3.67 Beginner Director Jia Zhangke 🍅 61%

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Vocabulary

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zěn me bàn what's to be done HSK 2
zán men we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [zá men] HSK 2
zhòng diǎn important point; main point; focus; key (project etc); to focus on; to put the emphasis on HSK 2
zěn me yàng how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? HSK 2
biǎo exterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion); a model; a table (listing information); a form; a meter (measuring sth) HSK 2
shí zài really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality HSK 2
xué science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational HSK 2
tīng shuō to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking HSK 2
guó international HSK 2
quán guó whole nation; nationwide; countrywide; national HSK 2
to take; to get; to choose; to fetch HSK 2
gāng cái just now; a moment ago HSK 2
广 guǎng gào to advertise; a commercial; advertisement HSK 2
shěng to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government) HSK 2
jiù yào will; shall; to be going to HSK 2
yóu freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted HSK 2
chāo guò to surpass; to exceed; to outstrip HSK 2
shì market; city HSK 2
si 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 HSK 2
duǎn short; brief; to lack; weak point; fault HSK 2
滿 Mǎn Manchu ethnic group HSK 2
lòng lane; alley HSK 2
jīng cháng frequently; constantly; regularly; often; day-to-day; everyday; daily HSK 2
piào liang pretty; beautiful HSK 2
to leave; to part from; to be away from; (in giving distances) from; without (sth); independent of; one of the Eight Trigrams 卦, symbolizing fire; ☲ HSK 2
to be afraid; to fear; to dread; to be unable to endure; perhaps HSK 2
to cry; to weep HSK 2
shōu to receive; to accept; to collect; to put away; to restrain; to stop; in care of (used on address line after name) HSK 2
ài adorable; cute; lovely HSK 2
huān yíng to welcome; welcome HSK 2
hóng red; popular; revolutionary; bonus HSK 2
yuán lái original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out HSK 2
jiǔ wine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits; alcoholic beverage HSK 2
dǎo 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 HSK 2
gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi HSK 2
yín háng bank HSK 2
zhào piàn photograph; picture HSK 2
yǎn eye; small hole; crux (of a matter); classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc) HSK 2
wǎng to go (in a direction); to; towards; (of a train) bound for; past; previous HSK 2
yàng that kind; that sort HSK 2
abbr. for 克罗地亚, Croatia; (Tw) abbr. for 克罗埃西亚, Croatia HSK 2
hǎo xiàng as if; to seem like HSK 2
quán whole; all HSK 2
jiāo to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends; to intersect (lines); variant of 跤 HSK 2
liú to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve HSK 2
yào medicine; drug; substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting); to poison HSK 2
liàng classifier for vehicles HSK 2
suàn to regard as; to figure; to calculate; to compute HSK 2
guò lái to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of HSK 2
bàn to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with HSK 2