A World Without Thieves

A World Without Thieves 2004

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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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4.32 Intermediate Director Feng Xiaogang IMDb 7.2

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Vocabulary

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rot, decay, spoil; rotten ∼HSK 5
zhī suǒ wèi nonsense; nonsensical; incomprehensible; to make no sense ∼HSK 5
shīxiōng elder fellow disciple ∼HSK 5
ài (usually used in the negative) major issue; serious problem; big deal ∼HSK 5
tái gāo to raise (price etc) ∼HSK 5
shuǎng not well; out of sorts; in a bad mood; without discrepancy; accurate ∼HSK 5
xiàn chǒu (used self-deprecatingly, e.g. when asked to sing a song) to put one's artistic incompetence on display ∼HSK 5
kàn qīng to see clearly ∼HSK 5
fǒu can/may? ∼HSK 5
express, state, relate, narrate ∼HSK 5
nài to do something to sb; to deal with; to cope; how?; to no avail ∼HSK 5
guì xia to kneel down ∼HSK 5
mián close eyes, sleep; hibernate ∼HSK 5
cǎi betrothal gift; bride price ∼HSK 5
yìng yào firmly set on doing sth; to insist on doing; determined in one's course of action ∼HSK 5
xiōng men brothers; comrades; men; brethren ∼HSK 5
yōu sad, grieved; grief, melancholy ∼HSK 5
what (literary) ∼HSK 5
zěn néng how can ∼HSK 5
jiè xīn vigilance; wariness ∼HSK 5
bèi zi all one's life; lifetime ∼HSK 5
zhēn bàng super!; really great; wonderful ∼HSK 5
zhěn pillow ∼HSK 5
shān dòng cavern; cave ∼HSK 5
yǒu dǎn liàng courageous ∼HSK 5
shuāi to fall to one's death; to kill by throwing to the ground ∼HSK 5
zuǐ Shut up!; same as 閉上嘴巴|闭上嘴巴 ∼HSK 5
jiān crafty, villainous, false ∼HSK 5
huá crafty, cunning, shrewd; deceitful ∼HSK 5
rèn to take responsibility; to bear responsibility; to be responsible ∼HSK 5
pīn jigsaw puzzle; to do a jigsaw puzzle ∼HSK 5
scheme, plan; to whip; urge ∼HSK 5
mìng àn homicide case; murder case ∼HSK 5
chéng jǐng police on trains; train marshal ∼HSK 5
贿 xíng huì to offer a bribe ∼HSK 5
xīn ruǎn to be softhearted; to be tenderhearted; to be kindhearted ∼HSK 5
shǒu ruǎn to be lenient; to relent; to be reluctant to make a hard decision; to think twice ∼HSK 5
to tie ∼HSK 5
dǎo wèi kǒu to spoil one's appetite; fig. to get fed up with sth ∼HSK 5
xiāng jiàn meet ∼HSK 5
yàn flame, blaze; glowing, blazing ∼HSK 5
gǎn drive away ∼HSK 5
lào brand, burn; branding iron ∼HSK 5
gǎn dāng lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise; you flatter me HSK 5
chéng Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage HSK 5
fàn meal in a partitioned box HSK 5
chéng yuán attendant on an airplane, train, boat etc HSK 5
xiū yǎng accomplishment; training; self-cultivation HSK 5
gāo yuán plateau HSK 5
shèng victory or defeat; the outcome of a battle HSK 5