Wolf Totem 2015
狼图腾
In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.
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Vocabulary
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| 牧 牧 | tend cattle, shepherd | |
| 插队 插隊 | to cut in line; to jump a queue; to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution) | |
| 广袤 廣袤 | vast | |
| 垒 壘 | rampart, military wall | |
| 括 括 | include, embrace, enclose | |
| 铁器 鐵器 | hardware; ironware | |
| 敲击 敲擊 | to pound; to rap | |
| 大将 大將 | a general or admiral | |
| 猎物 獵物 | prey; quarry | |
| 游牧 遊牧 | nomadic; to move about in search of pasture; to rove around as a nomad | |
| 贵妇人 貴婦人 | dame | |
| 袄 襖 | outer garments; coat, jacket | |
| 受控 受控 | to be controlled | |
| 来袭 來襲 | to invade; (of a storm etc) to strike; to hit | |
| 予 予 | I, me; to give | |
| 玩忽职守 玩忽職守 | to neglect one's duty; dereliction of duty; malpractice | |
| 严惩 嚴懲 | to punish severely | |
| 什么话 什麼話 | what kind of talk | |
| 冻死 凍死 | to freeze to death; to die off in winter | |
| 何 何 | what (literary) | |
| 羔 羔 | lamb, kid | |
| 奴才 奴才 | slave; fig. flunkey | |
| 冒着 冒著 | to brave; to face dangers | |
| 夺走 奪走 | to snatch away | |
| 耕作 耕作 | farming | |
| 下毒 下毒 | to put poison in sth; to poison | |
| 狐狸 狐狸 | fox; fig. sly and treacherous person | |
| 蚊虫 蚊蟲 | mosquito | |
| 侵袭 侵襲 | to invade; to assail; onslaught | |
| 遭 遭 | encounter, suffer | |
| 殃 殃 | misfortune, disaster, calamity | |
| 皮包骨头 皮包骨頭 | to be all skin and bones (idiom); also written | |
| 豪 豪 | brave, heroic, chivalrous | |
| 盹 盹 | to doze; to nap; to nod | |
| 敞 敞 | roomy, spacious, open, broad | |
| 爪 爪 | claw, nail, talon; animal feet | |
| 拦住 攔住 | to stop; to bar the way | |
| 枪眼 槍眼 | loophole (for firing); embrasure | |
| 凭什么 憑什麼 | (spoken) why?; for which reason? | |
| 个儿 個兒 | size; height; stature | |
| 年前 年前 | by the end of the year; at the end of the year; shortly before New Year | |
| 处分 處分 | to discipline sb; to punish; disciplinary action; to deal with (a matter) | |
| 迷信 迷信 | superstition; to have a superstitious belief (in sth) | |
| 草原 草原 | grassland; prairie | |
| 进化 進化 | evolution | |
| 有害 有害 | destructive; harmful; damaging | |
| 墙壁 牆壁 | wall | |
| 有毒 有毒 | poisonous | |
| 值班 值班 | to work a shift; on duty | |
| 再也 再也 | (not) any more |