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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| 腐 腐 | rot, decay, spoil; rotten | |
| 不知所谓 不知所謂 | nonsense; nonsensical; incomprehensible; to make no sense | |
| 师兄 師兄 | elder fellow disciple | |
| 大碍 大礙 | (usually used in the negative) major issue; serious problem; big deal | |
| 抬高 抬高 | to raise (price etc) | |
| 不爽 不爽 | not well; out of sorts; in a bad mood; without discrepancy; accurate | |
| 献丑 獻醜 | (used self-deprecatingly, e.g. when asked to sing a song) to put one's artistic incompetence on display | |
| 看清 看清 | to see clearly | |
| 可否 可否 | can/may? | |
| 叙 敘 | express, state, relate, narrate | |
| 奈何 奈何 | to do something to sb; to deal with; to cope; how?; to no avail | |
| 跪下 跪下 | to kneel down | |
| 眠 眠 | close eyes, sleep; hibernate | |
| 彩礼 彩禮 | betrothal gift; bride price | |
| 硬要 硬要 | firmly set on doing sth; to insist on doing; determined in one's course of action | |
| 弟兄们 弟兄們 | brothers; comrades; men; brethren | |
| 忧 憂 | sad, grieved; grief, melancholy | |
| 何 何 | what (literary) | |
| 怎能 怎能 | how can | |
| 戒心 戒心 | vigilance; wariness | |
| 辈子 輩子 | all one's life; lifetime | |
| 真棒 真棒 | super!; really great; wonderful | |
| 枕 枕 | pillow | |
| 山洞 山洞 | cavern; cave | |
| 有胆量 有膽量 | courageous | |
| 摔死 摔死 | to fall to one's death; to kill by throwing to the ground | |
| 闭嘴 閉嘴 | Shut up!; same as 閉上嘴巴|闭上嘴巴 | |
| 奸 奸 | crafty, villainous, false | |
| 猾 猾 | crafty, cunning, shrewd; deceitful | |
| 负责任 負責任 | to take responsibility; to bear responsibility; to be responsible | |
| 拼图 拼圖 | jigsaw puzzle; to do a jigsaw puzzle | |
| 策 策 | scheme, plan; to whip; urge | |
| 命案 命案 | homicide case; murder case | |
| 乘警 乘警 | police on trains; train marshal | |
| 行贿 行賄 | to offer a bribe | |
| 心软 心軟 | to be softhearted; to be tenderhearted; to be kindhearted | |
| 手软 手軟 | to be lenient; to relent; to be reluctant to make a hard decision; to think twice | |
| 缚 縛 | to tie | |
| 倒胃口 倒胃口 | to spoil one's appetite; fig. to get fed up with sth | |
| 相见 相見 | meet | |
| 焰 焰 | flame, blaze; glowing, blazing | |
| 驱赶 驅趕 | drive away | |
| 烙 烙 | brand, burn; branding iron | |
| 不敢当 不敢當 | lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise; you flatter me | |
| 成语 成語 | Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage | |
| 盒饭 盒飯 | meal in a partitioned box | |
| 乘务员 乘務員 | attendant on an airplane, train, boat etc | |
| 修养 修養 | accomplishment; training; self-cultivation | |
| 高原 高原 | plateau | |
| 胜负 勝負 | victory or defeat; the outcome of a battle |