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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| 吓 嚇 | to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment) | |
| 剩下 剩下 | to remain; to be left over | |
| 偷 偷 | to steal; to pilfer; to snatch; thief; stealthily | |
| 恨 恨 | to hate; to regret | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 疯狂 瘋狂 | crazy; frenzied; wild | |
| 呆 呆 | foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; to stay | |
| 疯 瘋 | insane; mad; wild | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 棒 棒 | stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race | |
| 傻 傻 | foolish | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 控制 控制 | to control | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 其 其 | his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 受不了 受不了 | unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand | Xiehouyu |
| 无法 無法 | unable; incapable | Xiehouyu |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 腾格里 騰格里 | Tengri, the sky god in Mongolic and Turkic mythology | Proper Noun |
| 蒙古人 蒙古人 | Mongol | Proper Noun |
| 天鹅湖 天鵝湖 | Swan Lake | Proper Noun |
| 文化大革命 文化大革命 | Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) | Proper Noun |
| 内蒙 內蒙 | Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, capital Hohhot | Proper Noun |
| 狼图腾 狼圖騰 | Wolf Totem, novel by Lü Jiamin aka Jiang Rong | Proper Noun |
| 成吉思汗 成吉思汗 | Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire | Proper Noun |
| 木华黎 木華黎 | Muqali or Mukhali (1170-1223), military commander under Genghis Khan | Proper Noun |
| 西伯利亚 西伯利亞 | Siberia | Proper Noun |
| 毛主席 毛主席 | Chairman Mao; Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader | Proper Noun |
| 巴特 巴特 | Barth or Barthes (name); Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 雅 雅 | elegant, graceful, refined | |
| 茨 茨 | thatching; caltrop, Tribulus terrestris | |
| 毕 畢 | end, finish, conclude; completed | |
| 族人 族人 | clansman; clan members; relatives; ethnic minority | |
| 生产队 生產隊 | production team | |
| 知 知 | know | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 击 擊 | strike, hit, beat; attack, fight | |
| 军马 軍馬 | warhorse; cavalry horse; troops | |
| 尤其是 尤其是 | especially; most of all; above all; in particular | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 逃离 逃離 | to run out; to escape |