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.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 烦恼 煩惱 | to be worried; to be distressed; worries | |
| 实话 實話 | truth | |
| 坑 坑 | pit; depression; hollow; tunnel; hole in the ground; (archaic) to bury alive; to hoodwink; to cheat (sb) | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 顺便 順便 | conveniently; in passing; without much extra effort | |
| 桶 桶 | bucket; (trash) can; barrel (of oil etc) | |
| 堂 堂 | (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture | |
| 注定 註定 | to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably | |
| 恶 惡 | used in 恶心 | |
| 监狱 監獄 | prison | |
| 砍 砍 | to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb | |
| 蛮 蠻 | barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless | |
| 一阵 一陣 | a burst; a fit; a peal; a spell (period of time) | |
| 怀孕 懷孕 | pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy | |
| 屁股 屁股 | buttocks; bottom; butt; back part | |
| 惹 惹 | to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 他人 他人 | another person; sb else; other people | |
| 拨 撥 | to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 狼 狼 | wolf | |
| 探 探 | to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward | |
| 供 供 | to provide; to supply | |
| 毫无 毫無 | not in the least; to completely lack | |
| 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 | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 作茧自缚 作繭自縛 | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist by his own petard | Idiom |
| 道不同不相为谋 道不同不相為謀 | lit. persons who walk different paths cannot make plans together; to go separate ways (idiom) | Idiom |
| 不知好歹 不知好歹 | unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom); not to know what's good for one; unable to recognize others' good intentions | Idiom |
| 孤家寡人 孤家寡人 | one who is cut off from others (idiom); one who has chosen to follow a solitary path; (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person) | Idiom |
| 恨铁不成钢 恨鐵不成鋼 | lit. disappointed that iron does not turn into steel (idiom); fig. frustrated with sb who has failed to meet one's expectations | Idiom |
| 有钱能使鬼推磨 有錢能使鬼推磨 | lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom); fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks | Idiom |
| 叽叽喳喳 嘰嘰喳喳 | (onom.) chirp; twitter; buzzing; to chatter continuously | Xiehouyu |
| 装蒜 裝蒜 | to act stupid; to play dumb; to pretend to not know | Xiehouyu |
| 难熬 難熬 | (of pain or hardship) hard to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 不识抬举 不識抬舉 | fail to appreciate sb's kindness; not know how to appreciate favors | Xiehouyu |
| 死到临头 死到臨頭 | Death is near at hand. (idiom) | Xiehouyu |
| 大开眼界 大開眼界 | (idiom) to broaden one's horizons greatly | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 同行 同行 | person of the same profession; of the same trade, occupation or industry | Xiehouyu |
| 关你屁事 關你屁事 | (coll.) None of your goddamn business!; Mind your own business! | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 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)? |