High Risk 1995
鼠胆龙威
After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor's gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom between Kit and the nosy reporter? Who has the best Kung-Fu?
Vocabulary
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| 威力 威力 | might; formidable power | |
| 有机 有機 | organic | |
| 倒下 倒下 | to collapse; to topple over | |
| 荣幸 榮幸 | honored (to have the privilege of ...) | |
| 听话 聽話 | to do what one is told; obedient | |
| 项链 項鏈 | necklace | |
| 独家 獨家 | exclusive | |
| 贵族 貴族 | lord; nobility; nobleman; noblewoman; aristocrat; aristocracy | |
| 缩 縮 | to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce; abbreviation; also pr. [sù] | |
| 发誓 發誓 | to vow; to pledge; to swear | |
| 巡逻 巡邏 | to patrol (police, army or navy) | |
| 皇后 皇后 | empress; imperial consort | |
| 极度 極度 | extremely | |
| 人质 人質 | hostage | |
| 拜托 拜託 | to request sb to do sth; please! | |
| 趴 趴 | to lie on one's stomach; to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc); (Tw) percent | |
| 麻 蔴 | variant of 麻; hemp | |
| 监视 監視 | to monitor; to keep a close watch over; surveillance | |
| 拼命 拼命 | to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it | |
| 肩膀 肩膀 | shoulder | |
| 趁 趁 | to avail oneself of; to take advantage of | |
| 不准 不准 | not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 乖 乖 | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal | |
| 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 | |
| 跟踪 跟蹤 | to follow sb's tracks; to tail; to shadow; tracking | |
| 灰 灰 | ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected | |
| 情报 情報 | information; intelligence | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 冲锋陷阵 衝鋒陷陣 | to charge and break through enemy lines | Idiom |
| 行尸走肉 行屍走肉 | walking corpse (idiom); zombie; person who lives only on the material level | Idiom |
| 万念俱灰 萬念俱灰 | every hope turns to dust (idiom); completely disheartened | Idiom |
| 无计可施 無計可施 | no strategy left to try (idiom); at one's wit's end; at the end of one's tether; powerless | Idiom |
| 家破人亡 家破人亡 | family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned; destitute and homeless | Idiom |
| 杀人不眨眼 殺人不眨眼 | to murder without blinking an eye (idiom); ruthless; cold-blooded | Idiom |
| 前功尽弃 前功盡棄 | to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drain | Idiom |
| 非同小可 非同小可 | extremely important; no small matter | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 不赖 不賴 | (coll.) not bad; good; fine | 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)? | |
| 曱甴 曱甴 | (dialect) cockroach; also pr. [yue1you2] | |
| 特写 特寫 | feature article; close-up (filmmaking, photography etc) | |
| 揭穿 揭穿 | to expose; to uncover | |
| 沙皇 沙皇 | czar (loanword) | |
| 尿尿 尿尿 | to pee | |
| 蹲下 蹲下 | to squat down; to crouch | |
| 截断 截斷 | to break or cut in two; to sever; to cut off; (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc); to interrupt; (math.) to truncate |