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Dying to Survive

1.Lost onJourney 《人在囧途》

Lost in Thailand 《泰囧》

Lost in HongKong 《港囧》

2.the lead role主演

director 导演

screenwriter 编剧

producer 制片人，监制

很多观众看完电影都评论说这部电影是2018年看过的最良心的一部国产电影。

‘Dying toSurvive,’ A Comedy About Illegally Importing Drugs, Might Be China’s Best Movieof the Year.

illegally 非法地

importing drugs 进口药品

3.Dying toSurvive tells the tale of a health supplements peddler, played by Xu Zheng, whosmuggles unapproved drugs from India to sell to leukemia patients for moreaffordable prices.

healthsupplement 保健品

peddler 贩子

(someone whosells something illegal or harmful, especially drugs)

smuggle 走私，偷运，偷带

例句：He tried to smuggle diamonds into Japan.

他企图把钻石偷运进日本。

unapproved 未经批准的

approved 经核准的，被认可的

leukemia 白血病

affordable 支付得起的，负担得起的

4.While Xu’scharacter initially goes into the trade purely for its lucrativeness, hismotives begin to change and become more altruistic as he realizes thesignificance of his work and the lives he could save.

purely 纯粹地

lucrativeness 赚钱，可获利

motive 动机，目的

altruistic 利他主义的，无私的

例句：Happy people are more generous andaltruistic.

快乐的人会更无私，更为别人着想。

social realist theme  社会现实题材

5.The movie wasinspired by a real-life incident in China: in 2015, a man called Lu Yong 陆勇 was charged for importing and selling acheaper, “knockoff” version of Gleevec, a leukemia medication.

knockoff 冒牌货

(an unauthorizedcopy or imitation)

Gleevec 格列卫，白血病的治疗药物

6.Lu himselfsuffered from leukemia and began purchasing Gleevec tablets produced by anIndian pharmaceutical company for other patients who couldn’t afford the “real”drug.

pharmaceutical 制药的，配药的

7.The indictmentwas later quashed after the patients that had benefited from Lu’s actionspetitioned the court to lessen the sentence and release him. More than 1,000patients whom he sold drugs to petitioned the court for his release and twoweeks later prosecutors dropped charges.

indictment 起诉，控告

quash 撤销，平息

petition 请愿

sentence 判决

prosecutor 原告