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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| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 聊天 聊天 | to chat; to gossip | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 庄子 莊子 | Zhuangzi (369-286 BC), Daoist author | Proper Noun |
| 孙悟空 孫悟空 | Sun Wukong | Proper Noun |
| 岳飞 岳飛 | Yue Fei (1103-1142), Song dynasty patriot and general | Proper Noun |
| 太原 太原 | Taiyuan, prefecture-level city and capital of Shanxi Province | Proper Noun |
| 西宁 西寧 | Xining, prefecture-level city and capital of Qinghai Province | Proper Noun |
| 唐太宗 唐太宗 | Emperor Taizong of Tang, reign name of second Tang emperor Li Shimin (599-649), reigned 626-649 | Proper Noun |
| 玉帝 玉帝 | Jade Emperor | Proper Noun |
| 法轮功 法輪功 | Falun Gong (Chinese spiritual movement founded in 1992, regarded as a cult by the PRC government) | Proper Noun |
| 陵水 陵水 | Lingshui Lizu Autonomous County, Hainan; abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 红旗 紅旗 | Hongqi district of Xinxiang city, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 大同 大同 | Datong, prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province; Datong or Tatung Township in Yilan County, Taiwan; Datong or Tatung District of Taipei City, Taiwan; Datong District of Daqing City, Heilongjiang; (Confucianism) Great Harmony (concept of an ideal society) | Proper Noun |
| 延平 延平 | Yanping district of Nanping city Fujian; Yanping township in Taitung County, southeast Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 唐人街 唐人街 | Chinatown | Proper Noun |
| 武安 武安 | Wu'an, county-level city in Handan, Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 乔 喬 | tall, lofty; proud, stately | |
| 武 武 | military; martial, warlike | |
| 济 濟 | help, aid, relieve; ferry, cross | |
| 当兵 當兵 | to serve in the army; to be a soldier | |
| 悔 悔 | repent, show remorse, regret | |
| 淡薄 淡薄 | thin; light; flagging; faint | |
| 有志气 有志氣 | ambitious | |
| 首长 首長 | senior official | |
| 躺下 躺下 | to lie down | |
| 咱俩 咱倆 | the two of us | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 奋 奮 | strive, exert effort; arouse | |
| 玩法 玩法 | to play fast and loose with the law; to game the system; (leisure) rules of the game; way of doing an activity; (tourism) way of experiencing a place | |
| 幸会 幸會 | nice to meet you | |
| 相 相 | mutually | |
| 结了 結了 | that's that; that's it; that will do | |
| 慢点儿 慢點兒 | slow down a bit | |
| 不简单 不簡單 | not simple; rather complicated; remarkable; marvelous | |
| 自焚 自焚 | self-immolation | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 娃 娃 | baby; doll; pretty girl | |
| 闯入 闖入 | to intrude; to charge in; to gate-crash | |
| 烧水 燒水 | to heat water; to boil water | |
| 定点 定點 | to determine a location; designated; appointed; specific; fixed (time); fixed point (geometry); fixed-point (number) | |
| 什么人 什麼人 | what kind of person | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 抽血 抽血 | to take blood; to draw blood (e.g. for a test) | |
| 散会 散會 | to disperse a meeting; to adjourn; finished | |
| 扫黄 掃黃 | campaign against pornography |