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
Filter the words you want to study before watching.
| 美味 美味 | delicious; delicious food; delicacy | |
| 浪 浪 | wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated; to stroll; to ramble | |
| 玫瑰 玫瑰 | rugosa rose (shrub) (Rosa rugosa); rose flower | |
| 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 | |
| 完毕 完畢 | to finish; to end; to complete | |
| 失踪 失蹤 | to be missing; to disappear; unaccounted for | |
| 怀孕 懷孕 | pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy | |
| 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 | |
| 婴儿 嬰兒 | infant; baby; lead (Pb) | |
| 吻 吻 | kiss; to kiss; mouth | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 议论纷纷 議論紛紛 | to discuss spiritedly (idiom); tongues are wagging | Idiom |
| 拳打脚踢 拳打腳踢 | lit. to punch and kick (idiom); to beat up; fig. determined to sort out a problem | Idiom |
| 气喘吁吁 氣喘吁吁 | to pant; to gasp for breath | Idiom |
| 上吐下泻 上吐下瀉 | to vomit and have diarrhea | Xiehouyu |
| 不通 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | Xiehouyu |
| 泥巴 泥巴 | (coll.) mud | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | 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)? | |
| 泵浦 泵浦 | pump (loanword) | |
| 消防员 消防員 | firefighter; fireman | |
| 塌下 塌下 | to collapse | |
| 消防局 消防局 | fire department | |
| 纱厂 紗廠 | cotton mill; textile factory | |
| 垮塌 垮塌 | to collapse (of building, dam or bridge) | |
| 星君 星君 | stellar lord | |
| 水渠 水渠 | canal | |
| 哐啷 哐啷 | (onom.) clang; clatter; bang; crash; clank | |
| 沼气 沼氣 | marsh gas; methane CH4 | |
| 惊叫 驚叫 | to cry out in fear | |
| 消防栓 消防栓 | fire hydrant | |
| 碎裂 碎裂 | to disintegrate; to shatter into small pieces | |
| 气垫 氣墊 | air cushion (as on hovercraft) | |
| 打通宵 打通宵 | to spend the whole night | |
| 杂物 雜物 | junk; items of no value; various bits and bobs | |
| 鸣笛 鳴笛 | to hoot; to whistle | |
| 同仁 同仁 | (formal) colleague; fellow member (of an organization or profession) |