Black Coal, Thin Ice 2014
白日焰火
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
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Vocabulary
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| 腻子 膩子 | putty (same as 泥子); frequent caller; hanger-on | |
| 蹲点 蹲點 | (of a cadre etc) to work for a period of time with a grassroots unit to gain firsthand experience; (dialect) taking a crap | |
| 瞎混 瞎混 | to muddle along; to live aimlessly | |
| 碎尸 碎屍 | dismembered body | |
| 上梁 上樑 | to lay an upper beam; (a building's) upper beam; (a bicycle's) top tube | |
| 扣子 釦子 | button | |
| 寻思 尋思 | to consider; to ponder | |
| 重样 重樣 | same; similar; same type | |
| 搅局 攪局 | to upset the apple cart; to disrupt things | |
| 炉火 爐火 | the fire of a stove | |
| 隐姓埋名 隱姓埋名 | to conceal one's identity; living incognito | |
| 公用电话 公用電話 | public phone | |
| 冤死 冤死 | to suffer an unjust death | |
| 铺面 鋪面 | paving; pavement | |
| 人间蒸发 人間蒸發 | to vanish; to disappear from the face of the earth | |
| 头功 頭功 | first class merit | |
| 敬老 敬老 | to respect the elderly | |
| 瞎猫碰上死耗子 瞎貓碰上死耗子 | a blind cat finds a dead mouse (idiom); blind luck | |
| 耗子 耗子 | (dialect) mouse; rat | |
| 过招 過招 | to fight; to exchange blows | |
| 分尸 分屍 | to dismember a corpse | |
| 烟花爆竹 煙花爆竹 | fireworks (i.e. pyrotechnic devices, not the display they produce) | |
| 拆迁 拆遷 | to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants | |
| 要好 要好 | to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement | |
| 谦虚 謙虛 | modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks | |
| 战友 戰友 | comrade-in-arms; battle companion | |
| 总经理 總經理 | general manager; CEO | |
| 往后 往後 | from now on; in the future; time to come | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 烟花 煙花 | fireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater) | |
| 哎哟 哎喲 | hey; ow; ouch; interjection of pain or surprise | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 粥 粥 | used in 荤粥 | |
| 长久 長久 | (for a) long time | |
| 赖 賴 | to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on | |
| 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 | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 放手 放手 | to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand | |
| 从没 從沒 | never (in the past); never did | |
| 咋 咋 | dialectal equivalent of 怎么 | |
| 信仰 信仰 | to believe in (a religion); firm belief; conviction | |
| 刮 刮 | to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort | |
| 牵 牽 | to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve; to draw in | |
| 蹲 蹲 | to crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere) | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 遭遇 遭遇 | to meet with; to encounter; (bitter) experience | |
| 趟 䠀 | classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 野 埜 | field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury |