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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| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 牺牲 犧牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice | |
| 踩 跴 | to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote | |
| 界 界 | (bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 装备 裝備 | equipment; to equip; to outfit | |
| 族 族 | race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) | |
| 血液 血液 | blood | |
| 异常 異常 | unusual; abnormal; extremely; exceptionally | |
| 塔 塔 | pagoda; tower; minaret; stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo) | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 觉 覺 | a nap; a sleep | |
| 解 解 | to transport under guard | |
| 爆炸 爆炸 | explosion; to explode; to blow up; to detonate | |
| 样 樣 | manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type | |
| 镇 鎮 | to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 藏 藏 | Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 | |
| 队伍 隊伍 | ranks; troops; queue; line; procession | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 逼 偪 | variant of 逼; to compel; to pressure | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 死亡 死亡 | to die; death | |
| 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 | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 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 | |
| 骆驼 駱駝 | camel (CL:,,); (coll.) blockhead; ninny | Colloquialism |
| 么 麼 | interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) | |
| 甚 甚 | what (literary, = 什么) | |
| 萍 萍 | duckweed; wandering, traveling | |
| 妖 妖 | demon, monster | |
| 陵 陵 | hill, mound; mausoleum | |
| 羿 羿 | legendary archer | |
| 蝠 蝠 | kind of bat | |
| 恁 恁 | that, like this, thus, so, such | |
| 鳖 鱉 | turtle | |
| 山洞 山洞 | cavern; cave | |
| 梓 梓 | catalpa ovata | |
| 豪 豪 | brave, heroic, chivalrous | |
| 石棺 石棺 | sarcophagus | |
| 躲开 躲開 | to stay out of (hot water, trouble, awkward situation etc); to avoid (sb) | |
| 贫 貧 | poor, impoverished, needy |