Swoon

swoon 







Y

1. 昏厥,昏倒

2. 狂喜,心醉神迷



D



–verb (used without object) 

1. 

to faint; lose consciousness. 

2. 

to enter a state of hysterical rapture 

or 

ecstasy: The teenagers swooned [at] the sight of the singing star.  



–noun 

3. a faint or fainting fit; 



syncope

【語】詞中音省略,中略

【醫】昏倒,暈厥

【音】切分

　

Writing the script during the day while shooting at night, he allowed himself to abandon the rigid [confines] of conventional narrative [for] a looser, more thematic structure. 



Consisting of two similar but unrelated stories, the film details the lonely lives of four of Hong Kong's most isolated, disconnected inhabitants as they cross paths. 



The characters' sole commonality is Hong Kong's urban landscape, which swoons with neon-lit melancholy thanks to Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle's eye-popping camerawork.





exhilarate

Richard (John Hawkes) is a recent divorcé who is alternately [exhilarated] and [terrified] with his life and the world around him. While he believes great things are in store for him, 

he's also become so [despondent] about his wife's departure that he attempts to set his hand on fire.



disgruntle

irk

irate

irascible

risible

laughable, ludicrous.

trimming nearly half an hour, dropping a [risible] dream sequence, and cutting short the original, fabulously [desultory] ending.

[Swathes] of endless driving footage are gone, along with [risible] scenes like Bud (Gallo) stopping to change his sweater, 

Snicker