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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| 管用 管用 | efficacious; useful | |
| 高压 高壓 | high pressure; high-handed | |
| 潇洒 瀟灑 | confident and at ease; free and easy | |
| 鳄鱼 鱷魚 | alligator; crocodile | |
| 声誉 聲譽 | reputation; fame | |
| 无私 無私 | selfless; unselfish; disinterested; altruistic | |
| 化验 化驗 | chemical examination; to do a lab test | |
| 精华 精華 | best feature; most important part of an object; quintessence; essence; soul | |
| 剧烈 劇烈 | violent; acute; severe; fierce | |
| 慷慨 慷慨 | vehement; fervent; generous; magnanimous | |
| 示威 示威 | to demonstrate (as a protest); a demonstration; a military show of force | |
| 重伤 重傷 | seriously hurt; serious injury | |
| 航行 航行 | to sail; to fly; to navigate | |
| 归还 歸還 | to return sth; to revert | |
| 安宁 安寧 | Anning District of Lanzhou City 兰州市, Gansu; Anning City, to the west of Kunming 明, Yunnan | |
| 折扣 折扣 | discount | |
| 借用 借用 | to borrow sth for another use; to borrow an idea for one's own use | |
| 筹集 籌集 | to collect money; to raise funds | |
| 人为 人為 | artificial; man-made; having human cause or origin; human attempt or effort | |
| 一头 一頭 | one head; a head full of sth; one end (of a stick); one side; headlong; directly; rapidly; simultaneously | |
| 值钱 值錢 | valuable; costly; expensive | |
| 丰厚 豐厚 | generous; ample | |
| 鲨鱼 鯊魚 | shark | |
| 称作 稱作 | to be called; to be known as | |
| 制裁 制裁 | to punish; punishment; sanctions (incl. economic) | |
| 电线 電線 | wire; power cord | |
| 落地 落地 | to fall to the ground; to be set on the ground; to reach to the ground; to be born; (of a plane) to land | |
| 日益 日益 | day by day; more and more; increasingly; more and more with each passing day | |
| 备受 備受 | to fully experience (good or bad) | |
| 余地 餘地 | margin; leeway | |
| 下落 下落 | whereabouts; to drop; to fall | |
| 生前 生前 | (of a deceased) during one's life; while living | |
| 密度 密度 | density; thickness | |
| 较量 較量 | to pit oneself against sb; to compete with sb; contest; battle; to haggle; to quibble | |
| 把手 把手 | to shake hands | |
| 蜜蜂 蜜蜂 | bee; honeybee | |
| 名声 名聲 | reputation | |
| 统统 統統 | totally | |
| 帐篷 帳篷 | tent | |
| 验 驗 | to examine; to test; to check | |
| 步骤 步驟 | procedure; step | |
| 文物 文物 | cultural relic; historical relic | |
| 后备 後備 | reserve; backup | |
| 旅程 旅程 | journey; trip | |
| 终究 終究 | in the end; after all is said and done | |
| 怪不得 怪不得 | no wonder!; so that's why! | |
| 导航 導航 | navigation | |
| 纯洁 純潔 | pure; clean and honest; to purify | |
| 上方 上方 | place above (it); upper part (of it) | |
| 骗人 騙人 | to cheat sb; a scam |