An Empress and the Warriors 2008
江山美人
After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.
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Vocabulary
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| 隐居 隱居 | to live in seclusion | |
| 如常 如常 | as usual | |
| 免礼 免禮 | (formal) you may dispense with curtseying | |
| 下陷 下陷 | to subside; subsidence | |
| 抗敌 抗敵 | to resist the enemy | |
| 独尊 獨尊 | to revere as sole orthodoxy; to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc); to be dominant | |
| 弓箭手 弓箭手 | archer | |
| 死罪 死罪 | capital offense; crime punishable by death; my deepest apologies | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 奉公 奉公 | to pursue public affairs | |
| 疏忽职守 疏忽職守 | to neglect one's duties | |
| 职衔 職銜 | title (position within an organization) | |
| 图谋 圖謀 | to conspire | |
| 即日 即日 | this or that very day; in the next few days | |
| 精研 精研 | to research carefully; to study intensively | |
| 秘制 秘製 | to prepare (food etc) using a secret recipe | |
| 山洪 山洪 | deluge caused by torrential water flow off a mountain after heavy rain or snowmelt | |
| 村镇 村鎮 | hamlet (place) | |
| 情急 情急 | anxious | |
| 商议 商議 | to negotiate; discussion; proposal | |
| 祭拜 祭拜 | to offer sacrifice (to one's ancestors) | |
| 铺张 鋪張 | ostentation; extravagance | |
| 灵芝 靈芝 | lingzhi or reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) | |
| 罕有 罕有 | to rarely have; rare | |
| 采摘 採摘 | to pluck; to pick | |
| 贵客 貴客 | honored guest | |
| 失迎 失迎 | sorry I didn't come to greet you | |
| 碎尸万段 碎屍萬段 | (idiom) to cut up sb's body into thousands of pieces (a hyperbolic threat) | |
| 枉死 枉死 | to die in tragic circumstances | |
| 血祭 血祭 | blood sacrifice; animal sacrifice (to a God or ancestral spirit) | |
| 征战 征戰 | campaign; expedition | |
| 恩人 恩人 | a benefactor; a person who has significantly helped sb else | |
| 以至 以至 | down to; up to; to such an extent as to ...; also written 以至于 | |
| 造反 造反 | to rebel; to revolt | |
| 定时 定時 | to fix a time; fixed time; timed (of explosive etc) | |
| 蓝天 藍天 | blue sky | |
| 山谷 山谷 | valley; ravine | |
| 淹没 淹沒 | to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.) | |
| 上当 上當 | taken in (by sb's deceit); to be fooled; to be duped | |
| 明日 明日 | tomorrow | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 账 賬 | account; bill; debt | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 横 橫 | horizontal; across; crosswise; horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters); to place (sth) flat (on a surface); to cross (a river, etc); in a jumble; chaotic; (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable; violent | |
| 箭 箭 | arrow | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 孤儿 孤兒 | orphan | |
| 无效 無效 | not valid; ineffective; in vain |