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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| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 来不及 來不及 | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 拜拜 拜拜 | (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) | Colloquialism |
| 垃圾 垃圾 | trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [lè sè] | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 马丁 馬丁 | Martin (name) | Proper Noun |
| 圆明园 圓明園 | Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860 | Proper Noun |
| 上官 上官 | two-character surname Shangguan | Proper Noun |
| 皮尔 皮爾 | Pierre, capital of South Dakota | Proper Noun |
| 乾隆 乾隆 | the Qianlong era; Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title, personal name, reigned 1735-1799 | Proper Noun |
| 摩根 摩根 | Morgan (name) | Proper Noun |
| 清政府 清政府 | Qing government (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 劳伦斯 勞倫斯 | Lawrence (person name) | Proper Noun |
| 西洋 西洋 | the West (Europe and North America); countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional) | Proper Noun |
| 大清 大清 | Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 玛丽 瑪麗 | Mary or Marie (name); Mali | Proper Noun |
| 鸦片战争 鴉片戰爭 | the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861 | Proper Noun |
| 情人节 情人節 | Valentine's Day | Proper Noun |
| 宣纸 宣紙 | fine writing paper, originally from Jing county 涇縣|泾县, Xuancheng 宣城, Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 印加 印加 | Inca (South American Indians) | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 嘉 嘉 | excellent; joyful; auspicious | |
| 芙 芙 | hibiscus | |
| 怎么会 怎麼會 | how could it | |
| 这样子 這樣子 | so; such; this way; like this | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 法老 法老 | pharaoh (loanword) | |
| 不见不散 不見不散 | lit. Even if we don't see each other, don't give up and leave (idiom); fig. Be sure to wait!; See you there! | |
| 联军 聯軍 | allied armies | |
| 闯入 闖入 | to intrude; to charge in; to gate-crash | |
| 失手 失手 | a slip; miscalculation; unwise move; accidentally; by mistake; to lose control; to be defeated | |
| 伯爵 伯爵 | earl; count; earldom or countship (old) | |
| 一堆 一堆 | pile | |
| 应有 應有 | to deserve (attention, respect etc); should have (freedoms, rights etc) | |
| 戴上 戴上 | to put on (hat etc) | |
| 失败者 失敗者 | loser | |
| 降落伞 降落傘 | parachute | |
| 深感 深感 | to feel deeply | |
| 预祝 預祝 | to wish sb (success, bon voyage etc) | |
| 三倍 三倍 | triple | |
| 帕 帕 | turban, kerchief, veil; wrap | |
| 有无 有無 | to have or have not; surplus and shortfall; tangible and intangible; corporeal and incorporeal | |
| 编导 編導 | to write and direct (a play, film etc); playwright-director; choreographer-director; scenarist-director | |
| 接应 接應 | to provide support; to come to the rescue | |
| 况 況 | condition, situation; furthermore |