A World Without Thieves 2004
天下无贼
A con-team couple head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter traveling home with his life savings challenges their fate as thieves.
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Vocabulary
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| 是否 是否 | whether (or not); if; is or isn't | |
| 之间 之間 | (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间) | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 作为 作為 | one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be | |
| 此 此 | this; these | |
| 无 無 | not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less | |
| 了解 了解 | to understand; to realize; to find out | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 一生一世 一生一世 | a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life | Idiom |
| 后会有期 後會有期 | I'm sure we'll meet again some day. (idiom); Hope to see you again. | Idiom |
| 找死 找死 | to court death; to take a big risk | Xiehouyu |
| 轻巧 輕巧 | dexterous; deft; easy; light and easy to use; nimble; agile; lithe; graceful | Xiehouyu |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 输 輸 | to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) | Colloquialism |
| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 村里 村裡 | village; hamlet | Proper Noun |
| 长沙 長沙 | Changsha, prefecture-level city and capital of Hunan Province | Proper Noun |
| 成龙 成龍 | Jackie Chan (1954-), kungfu film and Cantopop star | Proper Noun |
| 叔 叔 | uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 兰 蘭 | orchid; elegant, graceful | |
| 邮费 郵費 | postage | |
| 一声 一聲 | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
| 叶 葉 | to harmonize, to rhyme; to unite; (borrowed for) leaf | |
| 谈谈 談談 | to discuss; to have a chat | |
| 食 食 | eat; meal; food; KangXi radical number 184 | |
| 胡 胡 | recklessly, foolishly; wildly | |
| 心领 心領 | I appreciate your kindness (conventional reply to turn down an offer) | |
| 人心 人心 | popular feeling; the will of the people | |
| 有心 有心 | to have a mind to; to intend to; deliberately; considerate | |
| 三分钟热度 三分鐘熱度 | brief period of enthusiasm; flash in the pan | |
| 报表 報表 | forms for reporting statistics; report forms | |
| 写实 寫實 | realism; realistic portrayal; realistic; true to life | |
| 作人 作人 | to conduct oneself; same as 做人 | |
| 不相干 不相干 | to be irrelevant; to have nothing to do with | |
| 谈心 談心 | to have a heart-to-heart chat | |
| 猪肉 豬肉 | pork | |
| 富贵 富貴 | riches and honor | |
| 有种 有種 | to have guts; to have courage; to be brave | |
| 照看 照看 | to look after; to attend to; to have in care | |
| 气死 氣死 | to infuriate; to be furious; to die from an excess of anger | |
| 空位 空位 | empty place; room (for sb) | |
| 深山 深山 | deep in the mountains | |
| 味 味 | taste, smell, odor; delicacy | |
| 开裆裤 開襠褲 | open-crotch pants (for toddlers) | |
| 容 容 | looks, appearance; figure, form | |
| 有兴趣 有興趣 | interested; interesting |