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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| 卡住 卡住 | to jam; to choke; to clutch; also pr. [qia3 zhu4] | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 站住 站住 | to stand | |
| 这时候 這時候 | At this moment | |
| 得出 得出 | to obtain (a result); to arrive at (a conclusion) | |
| 商人 商人 | merchant; businessman | |
| 一共 一共 | altogether | |
| 拿到 拿到 | to get; to obtain | |
| 咱 偺 | see 咱 | |
| 便宜 便宜 | convenient | |
| 院 院 | courtyard; institution | |
| 大人 大人 | adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors | |
| 舒服 舒服 | comfortable; feeling well | |
| 的话 的話 | if (coming after a conditional clause) | |
| 喊 喊 | to yell; to shout; to call out for (a person) | |
| 方便 方便 | convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself | |
| 可怕 可怕 | awful; dreadful; fearful; formidable; frightful; scary; hideous; horrible; terrible; terribly | |
| 多么 多麼 | how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent | |
| 好多 好多 | many; quite a lot; much better | |
| 轻 輕 | light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage | |
| 亮 亮 | bright; clear; resonant; to shine; to show; to reveal | |
| 疼 疼 | (it) hurts; sore; to love dearly | |
| 急 急 | urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious | |
| 蛋 蛋 | egg; oval-shaped thing | |
| 不行 不行 | won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable | |
| 咱们 咱們 | we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [zá men] | |
| 重点 重點 | to recount (e.g. results of election); to re-evaluate | |
| 怎么样 怎麼樣 | how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? | |
| 腿 腿 | leg | |
| 日子 日子 | day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life | |
| 刚才 剛才 | just now; a moment ago | |
| 后来 後來 | afterwards; later; newly arrived | |
| 查 查 | to research; to check; to investigate; to examine; to refer to; to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary) | |
| 意思 意思 | idea; opinion; meaning; wish; desire; interest; fun; token of appreciation, affection etc; to give as a small token; to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc | |
| 提 提 | to carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward; to mention; to raise (an issue); upwards character stroke; lifting brush stroke (in painting); scoop for measuring liquid | |
| 怕 怕 | to be afraid; to fear; to dread; to be unable to endure; perhaps | |
| 近 近 | near; close to; approximately | |
| 倒 倒 | to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit | |
| 眼 眼 | eye; small hole; crux (of a matter); classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc) | |
| 那样 那樣 | that kind; that sort | |
| 算 算 | to regard as; to figure; to calculate; to compute | |
| 过来 過來 | to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of | |
| 懂 懂 | to understand; to comprehend | |
| 面 面 | face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc | |
| 句 句 | sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse | |
| 以为 以為 | to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.) | |
| 片 片 | disk; sheet | |
| 生 生 | to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student | |
| 以前 以前 | before; formerly; previous; ago | |
| 道 道 | road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division) |