Gone with the Bullets 2014
一步之遥
Set in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zouri and Xiang Feitian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wanyan Ying unexpectedly wins, it sets into motion a series of tragic events that change their destinies.
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Vocabulary
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| 需 需 | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need | |
| 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 | |
| 唯 唯 | only; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义 or 论, e.g. 唯理论, rationalism) | |
| 即 即 | namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 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° | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 淋漓尽致 淋漓盡致 | lit. extreme saturation (idiom); fig. vividly and thoroughly; in great detail; without restraint; (of a performance) brilliant | Idiom |
| 挑肥拣瘦 挑肥揀瘦 | (idiom) to cherry-pick; to pick the best parts for oneself; to be choosy | Idiom |
| 欲罢不能 欲罷不能 | want to stop but can't (idiom); to be unable to stop oneself; to feel an urge to continue | Idiom |
| 马首是瞻 馬首是瞻 | to follow blindly (idiom); to take as one's only guide | Idiom |
| 互为因果 互為因果 | mutually related karma (idiom); fates are intertwined; interdependent | Idiom |
| 身无分文 身無分文 | (idiom) penniless; completely broke | Idiom |
| 板上钉钉 板上釘釘 | that clinches it; that's final; no two ways about it | Idiom |
| 一碗水端平 一碗水端平 | lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom); fig. to be impartial | Idiom |
| 掩人耳目 掩人耳目 | to fool people (idiom); to pull the wool over people's eyes | Idiom |
| 高瞻远瞩 高瞻遠矚 | to stand tall and see far (idiom); taking the long and broad view; acute foresight | Idiom |
| 万死不辞 萬死不辭 | ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out | Idiom |
| 恩将仇报 恩將仇報 | to bite the hand that feeds one (idiom) | Idiom |
| 千载难逢 千載難逢 | extremely rare (idiom); once in a blue moon | Idiom |
| 逍遥法外 逍遙法外 | unfettered and beyond the law (idiom); evading retribution; getting away with it (e.g. crimes); still at large | Idiom |
| 不可理喻 不可理喻 | (idiom) impervious to reason; unreasonable | Idiom |
| 肝胆相照 肝膽相照 | to treat one another with absolute sincerity (idiom); to show total devotion | Idiom |
| 铤而走险 鋌而走險 | to take a risk out of desperation (idiom) | Idiom |
| 丧心病狂 喪心病狂 | (idiom) deranged; demented; berserk | Idiom |
| 妇人之仁 婦人之仁 | excessive tendency to clemency (idiom); soft-hearted (pejorative) | Idiom |
| 大义灭亲 大義滅親 | to place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it | Idiom |
| 惨不忍睹 慘不忍睹 | lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom); fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious | Idiom |
| 将计就计 將計就計 | to beat sb at their own game (idiom) | Idiom |
| 瞬息万变 瞬息萬變 | in an instant a myriad changes (idiom); rapid substantial change | Idiom |
| 如花似玉 如花似玉 | delicate as a flower, refined as a precious jade (idiom); (of a woman) exquisite | Idiom |
| 一丘之貉 一丘之貉 | jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other. | Idiom |
| 胡扯 胡扯 | to chatter; nonsense; blather | Xiehouyu |
| 装模作样 裝模作樣 | (idiom) to put on an act; to show affectation; to indulge in histrionics | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 悬 懸 | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation | Xiehouyu |
| 法儿 法兒 | method (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 讨小 討小 | (coll.) to take a concubine | Colloquialism |
| 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)? | |
| 指着 指著 | Poke | |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 钩儿 鉤兒 | erhua variant of | |
| 但凡 但凡 | every single; as long as |