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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| 打劫 打劫 | to loot; to rob; to plunder; to ransack | |
| 娶媳妇 娶媳婦 | to get oneself a wife; to take a daughter-in-law | |
| 绝症 絕症 | incurable disease; terminal illness | |
| 拜佛 拜佛 | to worship Buddha | |
| 鸳鸯 鴛鴦 | (bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata); (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple | |
| 捐血 捐血 | to donate blood | |
| 赚回来 賺回來 | to earn back (money one invested, wasted etc) | |
| 牧羊犬 牧羊犬 | sheepdog | |
| 医治 醫治 | medical treatment | |
| 灭火 滅火 | to extinguish a fire; firefighting | |
| 设防 設防 | to set up defenses; to fortify | |
| 仗义 仗義 | to uphold justice; to be loyal (to one's friends); to stick by | |
| 偿命 償命 | to pay with one's life | |
| 凶器 兇器 | lethal weapon; murder weapon | |
| 清晰度 清晰度 | definition; sharpness; clarity | |
| 抵债 抵債 | to repay a debt in kind or by labor | |
| 手印 手印 | handprint; fingerprint; thumbprint | |
| 高原反应 高原反應 | altitude sickness; acute mountain sickness; abbr. to | |
| 善男信女 善男信女 | lay practitioners of Buddhism | |
| 偏要 偏要 | to insist on doing sth; must do it, despite everything | |
| 绑住 綁住 | to fasten; to bind | |
| 避邪 避邪 | to avoid evil spirits | |
| 何止 何止 | far more than; not just | |
| 嘀咕 嘀咕 | to mutter; to feel apprehensive | |
| 招来 招來 | to attract; to incur | |
| 眼珠 眼珠 | one's eyes; eyeball | |
| 逢年过节 逢年過節 | during holidays and festivals; on festive occasions such as New Year | |
| 招摇 招搖 | to rock back and forth; (fig.) to act ostentatiously; to brag; to show off | |
| 服众 服眾 | to convince the masses | |
| 割伤 割傷 | to gash; to cut; gash; cut | |
| 破财免灾 破財免災 | a financial loss may prevent disaster (idiom) | |
| 轻饶 輕饒 | to forgive easily; to let off lightly (often with negative: you won't get away with it) | |
| 承蒙 承蒙 | to be indebted (to sb) | |
| 沟渠 溝渠 | channel; moat; irrigation canal | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 饶了 饒了 | to spare; to forgive | |
| 验货 驗貨 | inspection of goods | |
| 爹娘 爹孃 | (dialect) parents | |
| 办酒席 辦酒席 | to prepare a feast | |
| 有缘 有緣 | related; brought together by fate | |
| 塞给 塞給 | to slip sb sth; to press sb to accept sth; to insert surreptitiously; to foist sth off on sb | |
| 缺德 缺德 | mean; nasty; reprehensible; unprincipled | |
| 走火入魔 走火入魔 | to be obsessed with sth; to go overboard; (Buddhism, Taoism) to misguidedly focus on hallucinations that arise during meditation | |
| 心慈手软 心慈手軟 | (idiom) softhearted; merciful | |
| 祸水 禍水 | source of calamity (esp. of women) | |
| 祖师爷 祖師爺 | founder (of a craft, religious sect etc) | |
| 锐气 銳氣 | acute spirit; dash; drive | |
| 闹别扭 鬧彆扭 | to be difficult with sb; to provoke disagreement; at loggerheads; to fall out with | |
| 作怪 作怪 | (of a ghost) to make strange things happen; to act up; to act behind the scenes; to make mischief; odd; to misbehave (euphemism for having sex) | |
| 扒手 扒手 | pickpocket |