Chinese Zodiac 2012
十二生肖
Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the twelve Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student and a Parisian woman, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.
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Vocabulary
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| 飞龙在天 飛龍在天 | 飞: fly; go quickly; dart; high · 龙: dragon; symbolic of emperor · 在: be at, in, on; consist in, rest · 天: sky, heaven; god, celestial | Idiom |
| 岂有此理 豈有此理 | how can this be so? (idiom); preposterous; ridiculous; absurd | Idiom |
| 面红耳赤 面紅耳赤 | flushed with anger (or excitement) | Idiom |
| 五花八门 五花八門 | myriad; all kinds of; all sorts of | Idiom |
| 伤脑筋 傷腦筋 | to be a real headache; to find sth a real headache; to beat one's brains | Xiehouyu |
| 搁浅 擱淺 | to be stranded (of ship); to run aground; fig. to run into difficulties and stop | Xiehouyu |
| 正直 正直 | upright; upstanding; honest | Xiehouyu |
| 贪婪 貪婪 | avaricious; greedy; rapacious; insatiable; avid | Xiehouyu |
| 完蛋 完蛋 | (coll.) to be done for | Xiehouyu |
| 无情 無情 | pitiless; ruthless; merciless; heartless | Xiehouyu |
| 夸张 誇張 | to exaggerate; overstated; exaggerated; hyperbole; (coll.) excessive; ridiculous; outrageous | Colloquialism |
| 家伙 傢伙 | household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon | Colloquialism |
| 风沙 風沙 | sand blown by wind; sandstorm | |
| 学艺 學藝 | to learn a skill or art | |
| 朝代 朝代 | dynasty; reign (of a king) | |
| 耍赖 耍賴 | to act shamelessly; to refuse to acknowledge that one has lost the game, or made a promise etc; to act dumb; to act as if sth never happened | |
| 郊游 郊遊 | to go for an outing; to go on an excursion | |
| 地势 地勢 | terrain; topography relief | |
| 茅台酒 茅臺酒 | maotai (a Chinese liquor) | |
| 邻国 鄰國 | bordering country; neighbor country; neighboring countries; surrounding countries | |
| 怨气 怨氣 | grievance; resentment; complaint | |
| 国宝 國寶 | national treasure | |
| 跟上 跟上 | to catch up with; to keep pace with | |
| 封建 封建 | system of enfeoffment; feudalism; feudal; feudalistic | |
| 打磨 打磨 | to polish; to burnish; to shine | |
| 情怀 情懷 | feelings; mood | |
| 领事 領事 | consul | |
| 机舱 機艙 | cabin of a plane | |
| 肆无忌惮 肆無忌憚 | absolutely unrestrained; unbridled; without the slightest scruple | |
| 售价 售價 | selling price | |
| 倒卖 倒賣 | to resell at a profit; to speculate | |
| 兴建 興建 | to build; to construct | |
| 嘱咐 囑咐 | to tell; to exhort; injunction | |
| 跳伞 跳傘 | to parachute; to bail out; parachute jumping | |
| 一刹那 一剎那 | a moment; an instant; in a flash | |
| 私事 私事 | personal matters | |
| 放肆 放肆 | wanton; unbridled; presumptuous; impudent | |
| 杠杆 槓桿 | lever; pry bar; crowbar; financial leverage | |
| 官兵 官兵 | (military) officers and soldiers; officers and men; (old) government troops | |
| 下山 下山 | to go down a hill; (of the sun or moon) to set | |
| 记号 記號 | mark; symbol; notation; seal | |
| 抢夺 搶奪 | to plunder; to pillage; to forcibly take | |
| 造假 造假 | to counterfeit; to pass off a fake as genuine | |
| 瓦解 瓦解 | to collapse; to disintegrate; to crumble; to disrupt; to break up | |
| 简陋 簡陋 | simple and crude | |
| 无话可说 無話可說 | to have nothing to say (idiom) | |
| 沿途 沿途 | along the sides of the road; by the wayside | |
| 转交 轉交 | to pass on to sb; to carry and give to sb else | |
| 后人 後人 | later generation | |
| 寺庙 寺廟 | temple; monastery; shrine |