Contract Killer

Contract Killer 1998

shāshǒu zhī wáng

Financially troubled, a newbie hitman reluctantly takes the job of finding the plotted killer of a Japanese tycoon.

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4.12 Intermediate Director Stephen Tung Wai IMDb 6.1

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Vocabulary

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certainly; must; will; necessarily HSK 5
zhǐ bu guò only; merely; nothing but; no more than; it's just that ... HSK 5
rén private; personal; interpersonal; sb with whom one has a close personal relationship; a member of one's clique HSK 5
zhèng shí to confirm (sth to be true); to verify HSK 5
rēng to throw; to throw away HSK 5
làn soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad HSK 5
mào to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover HSK 5
duǒ to hide; to dodge; to avoid HSK 5
quán shì jiè worldwide; entire world HSK 5
píng to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof HSK 5
cháng shì to try; to attempt HSK 5
qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag HSK 5
zàn shí temporary; provisional; for the time being HSK 5
cāi to guess HSK 5
wéi zhǐ until; (used in combination with words like 到 or 至 in constructs of the form 到...到...为止) HSK 5
qiàn to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in; (bound form) yawn; to raise slightly (a part of one's body) HSK 5
zhī wài outside; excluding HSK 5
gǔn to boil; to roll; to take a hike; Get lost! HSK 5
lián pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on HSK 5
piàn to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over HSK 5
zhōu Europe (abbr. for 欧罗巴洲) HSK 5
hai (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding; (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough; (of an animal) fierce; (of a resemblance) striking; (of liquor or chili pepper) strong; (of bacteria) virulent HSK 5
jīn fund HSK 5
shèng xià to remain; to be left over HSK 5
yùn to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate HSK 5
nán hard to (predict, imagine etc) HSK 5
jiā shàng plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that HSK 5
yāo qǐng to invite; invitation HSK 5
diū to lose; to put aside; to throw HSK 5
zhī zhōng inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during HSK 5
jìng zhēng to compete; competition HSK 5
bǎn a register; block of printing; edition; version; page HSK 5
qiāng gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots HSK 5
tǎo yàn to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying HSK 5
shǎ foolish HSK 5
qiǎng to fight over; to rush; to scramble; to grab; to rob; to snatch HSK 5
rán unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to HSK 5
péi to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 HSK 5
líng used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) HSK 5
abbr. for 哈萨克斯坦, Kazakhstan; abbr. for 哈尔滨, Harbin HSK 5
shā to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely HSK 5
wéi only; sole HSK 5
jiāng will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) HSK 5
(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very HSK 5
yǒu míng shí lit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name; nominal Idiom ∼HSK 4
yán guī zhèng zhuàn to return to the topic (idiom); to get back to the main point Idiom ∼HSK 4
bái bái (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) Colloquialism ∼HSK 4
àn zi long table; counter; (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job Colloquialism ∼HSK 4
chǐ cun size; dimensions; measurements (esp. of clothes); (coll.) propriety Colloquialism HSK 4
xiū to repair; to fix; to prune; to trim; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 4