Call of the Sea

Call of the Sea 1965

hǎi qíng qiú

The son of the town bully lusts after a local beauty in this action-filled thriller of the passions and violence to be found in a fishing village.

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4.3 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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hěn ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 HSK 6
suàn le let it be; let it pass; forget about it HSK 6
Buddha; Buddhism (abbr. for 陀) HSK 6
zhuàn qián to earn money; moneymaking HSK 6
tàng classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip HSK 6
kěn to agree; to consent; to be willing to HSK 6
zhá to deep fry; Taiwan pr. [zhà] HSK 6
piān to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations HSK 6
jīng essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) HSK 6
hāi oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword) HSK 6
tuō to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee HSK 6
kòu button HSK 6
to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) HSK 6
zài shuō to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides HSK 6
mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female HSK 6
chǎo to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) HSK 6
zhuàn to earn; to make a profit HSK 6
tuō to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on HSK 6
suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
jiě to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection HSK 6
bào to explode or burst; to quick fry or quick boil HSK 6
texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up HSK 6
fàn to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) HSK 6
Zàng Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 HSK 6
zhāo to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess HSK 6
mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
yuán former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source HSK 6
to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 HSK 6
zuō worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) HSK 6
as; as if; such as HSK 6
and; to give; together with HSK 6
qīng rén zhòng slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it. Idiom ∼HSK 5
yán luàn babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings; double Dutch Idiom ∼HSK 5
po effeminate; old-womanish; garrulous; fainthearted; overly careful; overly sensitive; maudlin Idiom ∼HSK 5
xuè kǒu pēn rén to spit blood (idiom); venomous slander; malicious attacks Idiom ∼HSK 5
tiān - qiāng (idiom) to cry out to heaven and knock one's head against the ground (as an expression of anguish) Idiom ∼HSK 5
chòu měi to show off one's good looks shamelessly Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
hún dàn scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
wéi nán to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage) Xiehouyu HSK 5
chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind Xiehouyu HSK 5
pái pork chop; pork cutlet; spare ribs; (coll.) skinny person Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
huāng to get panicky; to lose one's head; (coll.) (after 得) unbearably; terribly Colloquialism HSK 5
shōu shi to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 5
ǎi interjection; exclamation ∼HSK 5
sǎo (bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law ∼HSK 5
to fish; seize; pursue; surname ∼HSK 5
耀 耀 yào shine, sparkle, dazzle; glory ∼HSK 5
ancestor, forefather; grandfather ∼HSK 5
do not (literary) ∼HSK 5