Detective Chinatown 2015
唐人街探案
After being rejected from the police college, a mannerly man travels to Bangkok where he and an energetic distant relative must solve a murder case.
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Vocabulary
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| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 不准 不准 | not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 顺便 順便 | conveniently; in passing; without much extra effort | |
| 瓦 瓦 | roof tile; abbr. for 特 | |
| 逮捕 逮捕 | to arrest; to apprehend; an arrest | |
| 寻 尋 | to search; to look for; to seek | |
| 脖子 脖子 | neck | |
| 注定 註定 | to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably | |
| 恶 惡 | used in 恶心 | |
| 善 善 | good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect | |
| 监控 監控 | to monitor | |
| 失踪 失蹤 | to be missing; to disappear; unaccounted for | |
| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 创 創 | a wound; cut; injury; trauma | |
| 拳 拳 | fist; boxing | |
| 丁 丁 | male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 干; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl | |
| 屁股 屁股 | buttocks; bottom; butt; back part | |
| 惹 惹 | to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) | |
| 跟踪 跟蹤 | to follow sb's tracks; to tail; to shadow; tracking | |
| 告 告 | to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 勒 勒 | to rein in; to compel; to force; to carve; to engrave; (literary) to command; to lead; bridle; (physics) abbr. for 斯, lux | |
| 尸体 屍體 | dead body; corpse; carcass | |
| 领域 領域 | domain; sphere; field; territory; area | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 探 探 | to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward | |
| 制 製 | to manufacture; to make | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 一一 一一 | one by one; one after another | |
| 恐怖 恐怖 | terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist | |
| 案件 案件 | case; instance | |
| 丝 絲 | silk; thread; trace; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 一丝不挂 一絲不掛 | not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked; without a stitch of clothing; in one's birthday suit | Idiom |
| 谋财害命 謀財害命 | to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money | Idiom |
| 糊里糊涂 糊裡糊塗 | confused; vague; indistinct; muddle-headed; mixed up; in a daze | Idiom |
| 阴魂不散 陰魂不散 | lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom); fig. the influence still lingers on; the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive | Idiom |
| 百思不得其解 百思不得其解 | to remain puzzled after pondering over sth a hundred times (idiom); to remain perplexed despite much thought | Idiom |
| 天衣无缝 天衣無縫 | lit. seamless heavenly clothes (idiom); fig. flawless | Idiom |
| 怪胎 怪胎 | freak; abnormal embryo; fetus with deformity | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... |