A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop 2009
三枪拍案惊奇
Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought to kill her husband. But Wang is watching their every move. He bribes patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It seems like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel, bloody but satisfying end or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own. As the plot twists, more blood will flow, and ever greater violence will erupt.
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Vocabulary
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| 拍案惊奇 拍案驚奇 | to slap the table in amazement (idiom); wonderful!; amazing! | Idiom |
| 滴水不漏 滴水不漏 | lit. not one drop of water can leak out; watertight; rigorous (argument) | Idiom |
| 打草惊蛇 打草驚蛇 | lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom); fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy; to punish sb as a warning to others | Idiom |
| 窝囊废 窩囊廢 | (coll.) spineless coward; wimp; a good-for-nothing | Xiehouyu |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 老板娘 老闆娘 | female proprietor; lady boss; boss's wife | |
| 麻子 麻子 | pockmark | |
| 巡逻队 巡邏隊 | (army, police) patrol | |
| 南坡 南坡 | south slope | |
| 淹死 淹死 | to drown | |
| 大牢 大牢 | prison | |
| 私奔 私奔 | to elope | |
| 沾边 沾邊 | to have a connection with; to be close (to reality); to be relevant; to have one's hand in | |
| 靠谱 靠譜 | reliable; reasonable; probable | |
| 炸雷 炸雷 | thunderclap | |
| 弹丸 彈丸 | pellet | |
| 轰隆 轟隆 | (onom.) rumbling; rolling | |
| 人犯 人犯 | criminal; culprit; suspect (old) | |
| 蹲下 蹲下 | to squat down; to crouch | |
| 生活作风 生活作風 | behavior; conduct | |
| 清白 清白 | pure; innocent | |
| 侦破 偵破 | to investigate (as detective); to solve (crime); to uncover (a plot); to sniff out; to break in and analyze; detective work; to scout | |
| 水灵 水靈 | (of fruit etc) fresh; (of a person etc) full of life; healthy-looking; (of eyes) moist and bright; lustrous | |
| 隔三岔五 隔三岔五 | variant of | |
| 出人命 出人命 | fatal; resulting in sb's death | |
| 假肢 假肢 | artificial limb; prosthetic limb | |
| 白瞎 白瞎 | (dialect) to waste (effort, money etc) | |
| 娘娘腔 娘娘腔 | sissy; effeminate | |
| 查无实据 查無實據 | 查: investigate, examine, seek into · 无: negative, no, not; KangXi radical 71 · 实: real, true; honest, sincere · 据: to occupy, take possession of; a base, position | |
| 密码锁 密碼鎖 | combination lock | |
| 神圣不可侵犯 神聖不可侵犯 | sacred; inviolable | |
| 消气 消氣 | to cool one's temper | |
| 捣鼓 搗鼓 | to fiddle with sth; to trade with sth | |
| 娘的 孃的 | same as | |
| 一路上 一路上 | along the way; the whole way; (fig.) the whole time | |
| 方位 方位 | direction; points of the compass; bearing; position; azimuth | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 马车 馬車 | cart; chariot; carriage; buggy | |
| 哎哟 哎喲 | hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 账 賬 | account; bill; debt | |
| 特意 特意 | specially; intentionally | |
| 炮 炮 | to sauté; to fry; to dry by heating | |
| 看好 看好 | to keep an eye on | |
| 吊 吊 | to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 蹲 蹲 | to crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere) |