A Witness Out of the Blue 2019
犯罪现场
In this classic whodunit, a police detective must rely on the only witness - a parrot, to catch the killer of an armed robber.
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Vocabulary
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| 祈祷 祈禱 | to pray; to say one's prayers; prayer | |
| 窝 窩 | nest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair; den; place; to harbor or shelter; to hold in check; to bend; classifier for litters and broods | |
| 在意 在意 | to care about; to mind | |
| 肾 腎 | kidney | |
| 痕迹 痕跡 | vestige; mark; trace | |
| 都会 都會 | city; metropolis | |
| 宗 宗 | school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 注定 註定 | to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 蛮 蠻 | barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless | |
| 抢劫 搶劫 | to rob; looting | |
| 丁 丁 | male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 干; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl | |
| 跟踪 跟蹤 | to follow sb's tracks; to tail; to shadow; tracking | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 灰 灰 | ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected | |
| 情报 情報 | information; intelligence | |
| 剂 劑 | dose (medicine) | |
| 释放 釋放 | to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge | |
| 素 素 | raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever | |
| 尸体 屍體 | dead body; corpse; carcass | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 恐怖 恐怖 | terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist | |
| 案件 案件 | case; instance | |
| 所谓 所謂 | so-called; what is called | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 油嘴滑舌 油嘴滑舌 | glib; oily-mouthed and smooth talking | Idiom |
| 逍遥法外 逍遙法外 | unfettered and beyond the law (idiom); evading retribution; getting away with it (e.g. crimes); still at large | Idiom |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 不通 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | Xiehouyu |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 鹦鹉 鸚鵡 | parrot | |
| 勾当 勾當 | shady business | |
| 人渣 人渣 | dregs of society; scum | |
| 克俭 克儉 | thrifty; frugal | |
| 同僚 同僚 | colleague; coworker | |
| 口供 口供 | oral confession (as opposed to); statement; deposition | |
| 疑犯 疑犯 | a suspect | |
| 颈动脉 頸動脈 | carotid artery (medicine) | |
| 割断 割斷 | to cut off; to sever | |
| 通缉犯 通緝犯 | wanted criminal; fugitive (from the law) | |
| 蹲下 蹲下 | to squat down; to crouch |