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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yǒu qián well-off; wealthy ∼HSK 1
zhè wèi this (person) ∼HSK 1
ge a few; several; how many ∼HSK 1
màn zǒu Stay a bit!; Wait a minute!; (to a departing guest) Take care! ∼HSK 1
zài na r (adverbial expression indicating that the attention of the subject of the verb is focused on what they are doing, not distracted by anything else); just...ing (and nothing else) ∼HSK 1
the first time; first; number one ∼HSK 1
dào not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than ∼HSK 1
děng (archaic) you all ∼HSK 1
(slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! ∼HSK 1
zěn me huí shì what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? ∼HSK 1
rén lit. that person; fig. the person you have been looking for; Mr Right; the girl of one's dreams ∼HSK 1
lái to bring; to fetch; to get ∼HSK 1
fàng jìn to put into ∼HSK 1
hǎo hello; hi ∼HSK 1
tiān that day; the other day ∼HSK 1
xīng out of fashion; outmoded; impermissible; can't ∼HSK 1
Jīng capital city ∼HSK 1
zài not to be present; to be out; (euphemism) to pass away; to be deceased ∼HSK 1
chī rén exploitative; oppressive ∼HSK 1
měi tiān every day ∼HSK 1
not to get along well; to be on bad terms; to be at odds; discord ∼HSK 1
shàng tiān Heaven; Providence; God; the sky above; to fly skywards; (euphemism) to die; to pass away; the previous day (or days) ∼HSK 1
huí shì (old) to report to one's master ∼HSK 1
nián sān shí last day of the lunar year; Chinese New Year's Eve ∼HSK 1
jiā lǎo (old) a senior in one's household ∼HSK 1
yǒu girlfriend ∼HSK 1
lái zhe auxiliary showing sth happened in the past ∼HSK 1
xiǎo jie eldest daughter of an affluent family; (polite) your daughter; bossy or indulged young woman; Miss High and Mighty ∼HSK 1
mǎi cài to buy groceries ∼HSK 1
fēn (chemistry) molecule; (math) numerator of a fraction ∼HSK 1
shì de yes, that's right; variant of ∼HSK 1
the collective; the whole; (Buddhism) the greater self ∼HSK 1
first-year university student ∼HSK 1
de woman ∼HSK 1
zěn me zhāo what?; how?; how about?; whatever; also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5] ∼HSK 1
nán de man ∼HSK 1
děng xià to wait a moment; later; in awhile ∼HSK 1
lǎo zǎo a long time ago ∼HSK 1
míng liǎo to understand clearly; to be clear about; plain; clear; also written ∼HSK 1
diǎn a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia ∼HSK 1
biàn de to become ∼HSK 1
zhǎo zháo to find ∼HSK 1
hào zi work chant; prison cell; type; sort; mark; sign; signal; (Tw) brokerage firm ∼HSK 1
diǎn shuǐ to skim; lightly touching the water (as the dragonfly in the idiom 蜻蜓點水|蜻蜓点水); skin-deep ∼HSK 1
zhe r where I am; my place ∼HSK 1
cannot; should not; must not ∼HSK 1
male taxi driver; cabbie (slang) ∼HSK 1
jūn army, military; soldiers, troops ∼HSK 1
fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles ∼HSK 1
memorial activity 35 days after a person's death ∼HSK 1