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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| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on | |
| 剧 劇 | theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe | |
| 州 州 | prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland) | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 爆炸 爆炸 | explosion; to explode; to blow up; to detonate | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 权 權 | authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary | |
| 逼 偪 | to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 | |
| 犯罪 犯罪 | to commit a crime; crime; offense | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 最终 最終 | final; ultimate | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 于 | (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 穷鬼 窮鬼 | (vulgar) impoverished person; the poor | Xiehouyu |
| 斌 斌 | refined, having both appearance | |
| 我操 我操 | (substitute for) fuck; WTF | |
| 逍遥 逍遙 | free and unfettered | |
| 悲 悲 | sorrow, grief; sorry, sad | |
| 缘 緣 | karmic affinity | |
| 君 君 | lord, sir | |
| 投注 投注 | to throw one's energies (into an activity); to invest one's emotions (in sth); to bet; betting | |
| 国际贸易 國際貿易 | international trade | |
| 怎 怎 | how (variant of 怎么) | |
| 怎能 怎能 | how can | |
| 爆破 爆破 | to blow up; to demolish (using explosives); dynamite; blast | |
| 传染性 傳染性 | infectious; contagious; infectiousness; transmissibility | |
| 笑纳 笑納 | to kindly accept (an offering) | |
| 恁 恁 | that, like this, thus, so, such | |
| 唱戏 唱戲 | to perform in opera | |
| 现代舞 現代舞 | modern dance | |
| 寨 寨 | stockade, stronghold, outpost; brothel | |
| 悠着 悠著 | to take it easy | |
| 还不如 還不如 | to be better off...; might as well... | |
| 等着瞧 等著瞧 | wait and see (who is right) | |
| 弟兄们 弟兄們 | brothers; comrades; men; brethren | |
| 抬举 抬舉 | to lift sth up; to elevate sb; to honor sb (with compliments, gifts, promotions etc); to show great regard; to speak highly; Taiwan pr. [tai2 ju3] | |
| 桂 桂 | cassia or cinnamon | |
| 芝 芝 | Zoysia pungens | |
| 么 麼 | interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) | |
| 蝶 蜨 | butterfly | |
| 遥 遙 | far away, distant, remote | |
| 俺 俺 | I, me (northern dialect) |