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.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 又 又 | (once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway | |
| 这样 這樣 | this kind of; so; this way; like this; such | |
| 已经 已經 | already | |
| 得 得 | to have to; must; ought to; to need to | |
| 为 為 | as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) | |
| 可以 可以 | can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 不快 不快 | unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp | Xiehouyu |
| 没关系 沒關係 | it doesn't matter | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 有病 有病 | to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head | Colloquialism |
| 一块 一塊 | a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 美国 美國 | United States; USA; US | Proper Noun |
| 山西 山西 | Shanxi Province, capital Taiyuan | Proper Noun |
| 老子 老子 | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi | Proper Noun |
| 山下 山下 | Yamashita (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 美国人 美國人 | American; American person; American people | Proper Noun |
| 北大 北大 | Peking University | Proper Noun |
| 一下 一下 | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 儿 兒 | son, child; KangXi radical 10 | |
| 三十 三十 | thirty; 30 | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 你妈 你媽 | (interjection) fuck you; (intensifier) fucking | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 不明 不明 | not clear; unknown; to fail to understand | |
| 怎么了 怎麼了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 不了 不了 | no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) | |
| 不好 不好 | no good | |
| 中的 中的 | to hit the target; (fig.) to hit the nail on the head | |
| 哪个 哪個 | which; who | |
| 没事 沒事 | it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) | |
| 妈的 媽的 | (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking | |
| 他妈的 他媽的 | (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking | |
| 有钱 有錢 | well-off; wealthy |