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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| 岛 島 | island | |
| 爆炸 爆炸 | explosion; to explode; to blow up; to detonate | |
| 服 服 | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes | |
| 威胁 威脅 | to threaten; to menace | |
| 藏 藏 | Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 队伍 隊伍 | ranks; troops; queue; line; procession | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 权 權 | authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary | |
| 原 原 | former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source | |
| 犯罪 犯罪 | to commit a crime; crime; offense | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 据 㨿 | used in 据 | |
| 最终 最終 | final; ultimate | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 哇 哇 | Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 因 囙 | cause; reason; because | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 於 | (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 价值连城 價值連城 | invaluable; priceless | Idiom |
| 问心无愧 問心無愧 | lit. look into one's heart, no shame (idiom); with a clear conscience | Idiom |
| 众说纷纭 眾說紛紜 | opinions differ (idiom) | Idiom |
| 一路 一路 | the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind | Xiehouyu |
| 硌 硌 | (coll.) (of sth hard or rough) to press against some part of one's body causing discomfort (like a small stone in one's shoe); to hurt; to chafe | Colloquialism |
| 礼拜 禮拜 | to attend a religious service; (coll.) week; (coll.) Sunday | Colloquialism |
| 估计 估計 | to estimate; to reckon; (coll.) to suppose | Colloquialism |
| 秒 秒 | second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly | Colloquialism |
| 可可 可可 | (loanword) cocoa | |
| 莲 蓮 | lotus, water lily; paradise | |
| 膺 膺 | breast, chest; undertake, bear | |
| 拦住 攔住 | to stop; to bar the way | |
| 紫色 紫色 | purple; violet (color) | |
| 探测器 探測器 | detector; probe | |
| 蛇头 蛇頭 | head of a snake; human smuggler | |
| 英法 英法 | Anglo-French | |
| 猎 獵 | hunt; field sports | |
| 铁链 鐵鏈 | iron chain | |
| 锚 錨 | anchor | |
| 怎么搞的 怎麼搞的 | How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up? | |
| 豆 荳 | beans, peas; bean-shaped | |
| 可否 可否 | can/may? | |
| 搞定 搞定 | to fix; to settle; to wangle | |
| 妮 妮 | maid, servant girl; cute girl | |
| 骼 骼 | bone; skeleton; corpse | |
| 骸 骸 | skeleton, body; leg bone | |
| 山洞 山洞 | cavern; cave |