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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| 黑 黑 | abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龙江 | |
| 刚刚 剛剛 | just recently; just a moment ago | |
| 交 交 | to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends; to intersect (lines); variant of 跤 | |
| 留 㽞 | to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve | |
| 药 藥 | medicine; drug; substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting); to poison | |
| 过来 過來 | to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of | |
| 办 辦 | to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with | |
| 懂 懂 | to understand; to comprehend | |
| 脸 臉 | face | |
| 靠 靠 | to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old) | |
| 换 換 | to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency) | |
| 最近 最近 | recently; soon; nearest | |
| 份 份 | classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分 | |
| 活动 活動 | to exercise; to move about; to operate; to use connections (personal influence); loose; shaky; active; movable; activity; campaign; maneuver; behavior | |
| 面 面 | face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc | |
| 也许 也許 | perhaps; maybe | |
| 句 句 | sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse | |
| 选 選 | to choose; to pick; to select; to elect | |
| 卖 賣 | to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt | |
| 以为 以為 | to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.) | |
| 离开 離開 | to depart; to leave | |
| 万 萬 | used in 俟 | |
| 掉 掉 | to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc) | |
| 办法 辦法 | means; method; way (of doing sth) | |
| 加 加 | to add; plus; (used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned); to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb); to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth) | |
| 求 求 | to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech | |
| 道 道 | road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division) | |
| 有人 有人 | someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom) | |
| 不同 不同 | different; distinct; not the same; not alike | |
| 只要 只要 | if only; so long as | |
| 刚 剛 | hard; firm; strong; just; barely; exactly | |
| 相信 相信 | to be convinced (that sth is true); to believe; to accept sth as true | |
| 队 隊 | squadron; team; group | |
| 信 信 | letter; mail; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random | |
| 要求 要求 | to request; to require; requirement; to stake a claim; to ask; to demand | |
| 以后 以後 | after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future | |
| 可是 可是 | but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed | |
| 全 全 | all; whole; entire; every; complete | |
| 发 發 | to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds) | |
| 机会 機會 | opportunity; chance; occasion | |
| 不错 不錯 | correct; right; not bad; pretty good | |
| 过去 過去 | (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by | |
| 周 周 | to make a circuit; to circle; circle; circumference; lap; cycle; complete; all; all over; thorough; to help financially | |
| 见到 見到 | to see | |
| 为什么 為什麼 | why?; for what reason? | |
| 件 件 | item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc | |
| 条 條 | strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) | |
| 然后 然後 | then; after that; afterwards | |
| 事情 事情 | affair; matter; thing; business | |
| 其他 其他 | other; (sth or sb) else; the rest |