Youth 2017
芳华
A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.
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Vocabulary
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| 拍摄 拍攝 | to take (a picture); to shoot (a film) | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 舞 舞 | to dance; to wield; to brandish | |
| 版 版 | a register; block of printing; edition; version; page | |
| 呆 呆 | foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; to stay | |
| 枪 槍 | gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots | |
| 讨厌 討厭 | to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying | |
| 执行 執行 | to implement; to carry out; to execute; to run | |
| 棒 棒 | stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race | |
| 恢复 恢復 | to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 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 | |
| 居然 居然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 放弃 放棄 | to renounce; to abandon; to give up | |
| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 控制 控制 | to control | |
| 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 | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 落叶归根 落葉歸根 | Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by, starring | Idiom |
| 天各一方 天各一方 | (of relatives or friends) to live far apart from each other | Idiom |
| 恶心 惡心 | nausea; to feel sick; disgust; nauseating; to embarrass (deliberately) | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 闹肚子 鬧肚子 | (coll.) to have diarrhea | Colloquialism |
| 女同 女同 | a lesbian (coll.) | Colloquialism |
| 无语 無語 | to remain silent; to have nothing to say; (coll.) speechless; dumbfounded | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 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 |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 丁丁 丁丁 | Tintin, cartoon character | Proper Noun |
| 军区 軍區 | geographical area of command; (PLA) military district | Proper Noun |
| 雷锋 雷鋒 | Lei Feng (1940-1962), a soldier celebrated by the Chinese government from 1963 onward as a model of selflessness and devotion to the Communist Party | 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 |
| 孙 孫 | Sun (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 昆明 昆明 | Kunming, prefecture-level city and capital of Yunnan Province | Proper Noun |
| 毛泽东思想 毛澤東思想 | Mao Zedong Thought | Proper Noun |
| 江山 江山 | Jiangshan, county-level city in Quzhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 小林 小林 | Kobayashi (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 石林 石林 | Stone Forest, notable set of limestone formations in Yunnan | Proper Noun |
| 新军 新軍 | New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895) | Proper Noun |
| 文革 文革 | Cultural Revolution (1966-76) | Proper Noun |
| 党中央 黨中央 | Central Committee of the CCP | Proper Noun |
| 周总理 周總理 | Premier Zhou Enlai 周恩來|周恩来 (1898-1976) | Proper Noun |
| 唐山 唐山 | Tangshan, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province; China (a name for China used by some overseas Chinese) | Proper Noun |
| 钉钉 釘釘 | DingTalk, business communication platform developed by Alibaba | Proper Noun |
| 哈萨克 哈薩克 | Kazakh; (Tw, HK) Kazakhstan | Proper Noun |