Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe 2015
九层妖塔
In 1979, a young soldier is working in China's snowcapped mountains when an explosion reveals bizarre fossils hidden deep in the mountain caverns. What they discover next will change his life and human history forever.
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Vocabulary
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| 义无反顾 義無反顧 | honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back; no surrender; to pursue justice with no second thoughts | Idiom |
| 披荆斩棘 披荊斬棘 | lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom); fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way; to break through hardships; to blaze a new trail | Idiom |
| 始作俑者 始作俑者 | lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom); fig. the originator of an evil practice | Idiom |
| 命中注定 命中註定 | decreed by fate (idiom); destined; fated | Idiom |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 古墓 古墓 | old tomb (archaeology) | |
| 高原反应 高原反應 | altitude sickness; acute mountain sickness; abbr. to | |
| 异族 異族 | different tribe | |
| 雪崩 雪崩 | avalanche | |
| 土豆丝 土豆絲 | julienned potato | |
| 消气 消氣 | to cool one's temper | |
| 弄清 弄清 | to clarify; to fully understand | |
| 何方 何方 | from where | |
| 轰隆 轟隆 | (onom.) rumbling; rolling | |
| 响叮当 響叮噹 | to tinkle; to jingle; to clank | |
| 出人命 出人命 | fatal; resulting in sb's death | |
| 啥子 啥子 | (dialect) what | |
| 叫唤 叫喚 | to cry out; to bark out a sound | |
| 殉葬 殉葬 | (of servants etc) to be buried alive with the deceased; (of utensils etc) to be buried with the dead | |
| 着魔 著魔 | obsessed; bewitched; enchanted; as if possessed | |
| 缺氧 缺氧 | lacking oxygen; anaerobic | |
| 有情 有情 | to be in love; sentient beings (Buddhism) | |
| 腹地 腹地 | hinterland; interior; outback | |
| 东经 東經 | east longitude | |
| 北纬 北緯 | north latitude | |
| 垫底儿 墊底兒 | erhua variant of | |
| 蹲下 蹲下 | to squat down; to crouch | |
| 受尽 受盡 | to suffer enough from; to suffer all kinds of; to have one's fill of | |
| 熬煎 熬煎 | suffering; torture | |
| 斗志昂扬 鬥志昂揚 | having high fighting spirit | |
| 迎风 迎風 | in the wind; facing the wind; downwind | |
| 典藏 典藏 | repository of items of cultural significance; collection | |
| 善本 善本 | old book; good book; reliable book; rare book | |
| 尖椒 尖椒 | chili pepper | |
| 几样 幾樣 | several kinds | |
| 凯旋 凱旋 | to return in triumph; to return victorious | |
| 重逢 重逢 | to meet again; to be reunited; reunion | |
| 生命体征 生命體徵 | vital signs | |
| 祖辈 祖輩 | ancestors; forefathers; ancestry | |
| 飘飘 飄飄 | to float about; to flutter (in the breeze); (dialect) gay guy; (Tw) ghost | |
| 扬鞭 揚鞭 | to whip on; to raise a whip; by ext. to swagger | |
| 云雾 雲霧 | clouds and mist | |
| 放眼世界 放眼世界 | 放: put, release, free, liberate · 眼: eye; eyelet, hole, opening · 世: generation; world; era · 界: boundary, limit; domain; society; the world | |
| 芭蕾舞 芭蕾舞 | ballet (loanword) | |
| 封印 封印 | seal (on envelopes) | |
| 侥幸 僥倖 | luckily; by a fluke | |
| 莫名 莫名 | inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable | |
| 闭馆 閉館 | (of libraries, museums etc) to be closed | |
| 勘察 勘察 | to reconnoiter; to explore; to survey | |
| 反攻 反攻 | to counterattack; a counteroffensive |