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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| 年代 年代 | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period | |
| 保险 保險 | insurance; to insure; safe; secure; be sure; be bound to | |
| 直 直 | straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters | |
| 系 係 | to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary) | |
| 准 准 | to allow; to grant; in accordance with; in the light of | |
| 反对 反對 | to oppose; to be against; to object to | |
| 外面 外面 | outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance | |
| 文件 文件 | document; file | |
| 职业 職業 | occupation; profession; vocation; professional | |
| 错误 錯誤 | mistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake | |
| 记录 記錄 | to record; record (written account); note-taker; record (in sports etc) | |
| 后面 後面 | the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards | |
| 完美 完美 | perfect | |
| 理由 理由 | reason; grounds; justification | |
| 破 破 | broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of | |
| 经验 經驗 | experience; to experience | |
| 追 追 | to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously | |
| 美丽 美麗 | beautiful | |
| 痛 痛 | ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly | |
| 上面 上面 | on top of; above-mentioned; also pr. [shàng mian] | |
| 媒体 媒體 | media, esp. news media | |
| 现实 現實 | reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested | |
| 图 圖 | diagram; picture; drawing; chart; map; to plan; to scheme; to attempt; to pursue; to seek | |
| 救 捄 | to save; to assist; to rescue | |
| 乱 亂 | in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary | |
| 危险 危險 | danger; dangerous | |
| 市场 市場 | marketplace; market (also in abstract) | |
| 老板 老闆 | boss; business proprietor | |
| 更加 更加 | more (than sth else); even more | |
| 火 火 | fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86 | |
| 环境 環境 | environment; circumstances; surroundings; ambient | |
| 照 炤 | according to; in accordance with; to shine; to illuminate; to reflect; to look at (one's reflection); to take (a photo); photo; as requested; as before | |
| 群 羣 | group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc | |
| 对方 對方 | the other person; the other side; the other party | |
| 价值 價值 | value; worth; fig. values (ethical, cultural etc) | |
| 警察 警察 | police; police officer | |
| 久 久 | (long) time; (long) duration of time | |
| 专家 專家 | expert; specialist | |
| 本来 本來 | original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course | |
| 挂 掛 | to hang or suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried or concerned; to make a phone call (dialect); to register or record; classifier for sets or clusters of objects; (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) | |
| 事实 事實 | fact | |
| 仅 僅 | barely; only; merely | |
| 人类 人類 | humanity; human race; mankind | |
| 值得 值得 | to be worth; to deserve | |
| 属于 屬於 | to be classified as; to belong to; to be part of | |
| 仍然 仍然 | still; as before; yet | |
| 过程 過程 | course of events; process | |
| 同意 同意 | to agree; to consent; to approve | |
| 压力 壓力 | pressure | |
| 人民 人民 | the people |