Brotherhood of Blades 2014
绣春刀
In the late Ming Dynasty, three sworn brothers who serve as the imperial secret police are dispatched to hunt down Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch politician who had been forced to resign from his influential post and exiled from Beijing. The brothers return successfully from their quest, only to find that their task was but the beginning of a strange conspiracy.
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Vocabulary
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| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 什么人 什麼人 | what kind of person | |
| 自有 自有 | (I, they etc) of course have (a plan, a way etc); one's own (apartment, brand etc) | |
| 冲进 衝進 | to rush in; to charge in | |
| 拘捕 拘捕 | to arrest | |
| 家父 家父 | (polite) my father | |
| 请别见怪 請別見怪 | please don't be upset; no hard feelings; absit iniuria verbis; let injury by words be absent | |
| 冲出 衝出 | to rush out | |
| 摆明 擺明 | to show clearly | |
| 底细 底細 | inside information; the ins and outs of the matter; how things stand; what's up | |
| 何等 何等 | what kind?; how, what; somewhat | |
| 见怪 見怪 | to mind; to take offense | |
| 私 私 | private, personal; secret | |
| 编成 編成 | to organize; to put together; to edit | |
| 从何 從何 | whence?; where from? | |
| 结拜 結拜 | to become sworn brothers or sisters; sworn (brothers) | |
| 相 相 | mutually | |
| 定钱 定錢 | security deposit; earnest money (real estate); good-faith deposit | |
| 江湖 江湖 | rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf.); ( | |
| 没办法 沒辦法 | there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it | |
| 安生 安生 | peaceful; restful; quiet; still | |
| 死定 死定 | to be screwed; to be toast | |
| 细细 細細 | attentive; careful | |
| 永 永 | long, perpetual, eternal, forever | |
| 破败 破敗 | to defeat; to crush (in battle); beaten; ruined; destroyed; in decline | |
| 躺下 躺下 | to lie down | |
| 看不起 看不起 | to look down upon; to despise | |
| 感兴趣 感興趣 | to be interested | |
| 上楼 上樓 | to go upstairs | |
| 大爷 大爺 | arrogant idler; self-centered show-off | |
| 难免 難免 | hard to avoid; difficult to escape from; will inevitably | |
| 赏 賞 | to bestow (a reward); to give (to an inferior); to hand down; a reward (bestowed by a superior); to appreciate (beauty) | |
| 来得及 來得及 | to have enough time; can do it in time; can still make it | |
| 抄 抄 | to make a copy; to plagiarize; to search and seize; to raid; to grab; to go off with; to take a shortcut; to make a turning move; to fold one's arms | |
| 穿上 穿上 | to put on (clothes etc) | |
| 严 嚴 | tight (closely sealed); stern; strict; rigorous; severe; father | |
| 上门 上門 | to drop in; to visit; to lock a door; (of a shop) to close; to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family | |
| 骨头 骨頭 | bone; moral character; bitterness; Taiwan pr. [gú tou] | |
| 没错 沒錯 | that's right; sure!; rest assured!; that's good; can't go wrong | |
| 误会 誤會 | to misunderstand; to mistake; misunderstanding | |
| 办事 辦事 | to handle (affairs); to work | |
| 吃惊 吃驚 | to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed | |
| 着急 著急 | to worry; to feel anxious; to feel a sense of urgency; to be in a hurry; Taiwan pr. [zhāo jí] | |
| 细 細 | thin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft; fine; delicate; trifling; (of a sound) quiet; frugal | |
| 大哥 大哥 | eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss | |
| 隔 隔 | to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of | |
| 折 折 | to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business) | |
| 腰 腰 | waist; lower back; pocket; middle; loins | |
| 纯 純 | pure; simple; unmixed; genuine | |
| 对付 對付 | to handle; to deal with; to tackle; to get by with; to make do; (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb) |