Lifeline 1997
十万火急
A heroic but cocky firefighter pays no regard to the dangers of the job but lacks the courage to face his personal demons. When faced with a giant and volatile inferno, he must put aside personal differences with his boss if they are both to survive.
Vocabulary
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| 选择 選擇 | to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 担心 擔心 | anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 各就各位 各就各位 | (of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom); (athletics) On your mark! | Idiom |
| 十万火急 十萬火急 | most urgent; posthaste; express | Idiom |
| 不值得 不值得 | unworthy | Xiehouyu |
| 没用 沒用 | useless | Xiehouyu |
| 整 整 | exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 老总 老總 | boss; sir (person with a leading role in an organization); (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA; (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official; (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file | Proper Noun |
| 受困 受困 | trapped; stranded | |
| 被困 被困 | to be trapped; to be stranded | |
| 火场 火場 | the scene of a fire | |
| 大火 大火 | conflagration; large fire | |
| 帽 㡌 | hat, cap; cap-like tops | |
| 救火 救火 | to put out a fire; firefighting | |
| 有空 有空 | to have time (to do sth) | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? | |
| 跳楼 跳樓 | to jump from a building (to kill oneself); fig. to sell at a large discount (in advertising) | |
| 耶 耶 | used in transliteration | |
| 云梯 雲梯 | (military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times; firefighters' extension ladder; stone steps on a mountain | |
| 静电 靜電 | static electricity | |
| 空心菜 空心菜 | water spinach; ong choy; swamp cabbage; water convolvulus; water morning-glory; Ipomoea aquatica (botany) | |
| 内出血 內出血 | internal bleeding; internal hemorrhage | |
| 报人 報人 | newsman; journalist (archaic) | |
| 到齐 到齊 | to be all present | |
| 父 父 | father; KangXi radical 88 | |
| 伤者 傷者 | casualty; victim (of an accident); wounded person | |
| 源 源 | spring; source, head; surname | |
| 水龙 水龍 | hose; pipe; fire hose; (botany) water primrose (Jussiaea repens) | |
| 准备好了 準備好了 | to be ready | |
| 厂房 廠房 | a building used as a factory; factory (building) | |
| 楼板 樓板 | floor; floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc) | |
| 断电 斷電 | to experience a power outage; to have a power failure | |
| 会死 會死 | mortal | |
| 众 眾 | multitude, crowd; masses, public | |
| 视乎 視乎 | to be determined by; to depend on | |
| 半空中 半空中 | in midair; in the air | |
| 双脚 雙腳 | two legs; both feet | |
| 按下 按下 | to press down; to press a button | |
| 赶来 趕來 | to rush over | |
| 祝祷 祝禱 | to pray | |
| 鲁 魯 | foolish, stupid, rash; vulgar | |
| 杨 楊 | willow, poplar, aspen; surname | |
| 诺 諾 | promise; assent, approve | |
| 按钮 按鈕 | to push a button; button (one that can be pressed to trigger an action) | |
| 发力 發力 | to exert oneself; to apply force; (of an enterprise etc) to gain momentum; to perform strongly | |
| 车架 車架 | cart; barrow; frame; chassis |