Animal World 2018
动物世界
Backed into a corner by mounting debts, a youth agrees to submit himself to a high stakes game of chance in international waters aboard a disused warship.
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Vocabulary
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| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 悬 懸 | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation | Xiehouyu |
| 泡汤 泡湯 | (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing; to dawdle; to stall; (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | 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)? | |
| 大虾 大蝦 | prawn; (Internet slang) expert; whiz | |
| 囤积 囤積 | to stock up; to lay in supplies; to hoard (for speculation); to corner the market in sth | |
| 清零 清零 | to restore sth to its initial state; to reset (an odometer etc); to empty (a bank account); to eradicate (a disease); (computing) to clear (memory); to zero (a hard drive) | |
| 置业 置業 | to buy real estate | |
| 公海 公海 | the high seas; international waters | |
| 闭上 閉上 | to close; to shut up | |
| 抵债 抵債 | to repay a debt in kind or by labor | |
| 复利 複利 | compound interest | |
| 百分之百 百分之百 | a hundred percent; out and out; absolutely | |
| 犯病 犯病 | to fall ill | |
| 扯淡 扯淡 | to talk nonsense | |
| 洋房 洋房 | Western-style house | |
| 房主 房主 | landlord; house owner | |
| 护工 護工 | nurse's aide; nursing assistant; care worker | |
| 同窗 同窗 | schoolmate; fellow student | |
| 营业时间 營業時間 | business hours; opening hours; office hours | |
| 耍无赖 耍無賴 | to act shamelessly; to behave in a way that leaves others tut-tutting and shaking their heads in disapproval | |
| 隔三岔五 隔三岔五 | variant of | |
| 钢厂 鋼廠 | a steelworks | |
| 公章 公章 | official seal | |
| 同声传译 同聲傳譯 | simultaneous interpretation | |
| 还清 還清 | to pay back in full; to redeem a debt | |
| 一年一度 一年一度 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 一: one; a, an; alone · 度: degree, system; manner; to consider | |
| 萨斯 薩斯 | SARS; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome | |
| 驶入 駛入 | (of a car, ship, train etc) to enter | |
| 煎熬 煎熬 | to suffer; to torture; to torment; ordeal; suffering; torture; torment | |
| 磨叽 磨嘰 | (dialect) to dawdle; to waste time; also written | |
| 麻醉剂 麻醉劑 | an anesthetic; (fig.) a narcotic | |
| 押注 押注 | to bet; to wager | |
| 贪心 貪心 | greedy | |
| 赎回 贖回 | to redeem | |
| 不甘心 不甘心 | not reconciled to; not resigned to | |
| 敬老院 敬老院 | senior citizens' home; old folks' home | |
| 入伙 入夥 | to join a group; to become a member | |
| 他娘的 他孃的 | same as | |
| 白内障 白內障 | cataract (ophthalmology) | |
| 有道理 有道理 | to make sense; reasonable | |
| 盯住 盯住 | to watch sb closely; to breathe down sb's neck; to mark (sports) | |
| 平摊 平攤 | to spread out; (fig.) to share equally | |
| 保命 保命 | to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival | |
| 立于不败之地 立於不敗之地 | 立: stand; let stand; establish, set · 于: in, on, at; go to; surname · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 败: be defeated, decline, fail · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 地: earth; soil, ground; region | |
| 魔方 魔方 | Rubik's cube; magic cube | |
| 掏出 掏出 | to fish out; to take out (from a pocket, bag etc) | |
| 凑成 湊成 | to put together; to make up (a set); to round up (a number to a convenient multiple); resulting in... | |
| 万全之策 萬全之策 | 万: ten thousand; innumerable · 全: maintain, keep whole or intact · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 策: scheme, plan; to whip; urge |