Lifeline

Lifeline 1997

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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.

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4.31 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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měi wèi delicious; delicious food; delicacy HSK 7
làng wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated; to stroll; to ramble HSK 7
méi guī rugosa rose (shrub) (Rosa rugosa); rose flower HSK 7
zhǔn not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit HSK 7
yào otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) HSK 7
guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal HSK 7
wán to finish; to end; to complete HSK 7
shī zōng to be missing; to disappear; unaccounted for HSK 7
怀 huái yùn pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy HSK 7
dīng 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 HSK 7
gu buttocks; bottom; butt; back part HSK 7
yīng ér infant; baby; lead (Pb) HSK 7
wěn kiss; to kiss; mouth HSK 7
hēi hey HSK 7
miàn one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face HSK 7
dīng to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at HSK 7
to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle HSK 7
zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
wén language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 HSK 7
ér that's all; nothing more HSK 7
é to chant HSK 7
abbr. for Israel 列 HSK 7
lùn fēn fēn to discuss spiritedly (idiom); tongues are wagging Idiom ∼HSK 6
quán jiǎo lit. to punch and kick (idiom); to beat up; fig. determined to sort out a problem Idiom ∼HSK 6
chuǎn to pant; to gasp for breath Idiom ∼HSK 6
shàng xià xiè to vomit and have diarrhea Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
tōng to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical Xiehouyu HSK 6
ba (coll.) mud Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
jiù suàn (coll.) even if Colloquialism HSK 6
léi 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 HSK 6
used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
yǒu méi yǒu (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)? HSK 6
bèng pump (loanword) ∼HSK 6
xiāo fáng yuán firefighter; fireman ∼HSK 6
xià to collapse ∼HSK 6
xiāo fáng fire department ∼HSK 6
shā chǎng cotton mill; textile factory ∼HSK 6
kuǎ to collapse (of building, dam or bridge) ∼HSK 6
xīng jūn stellar lord ∼HSK 6
shuǐ canal ∼HSK 6
kuāng lāng (onom.) clang; clatter; bang; crash; clank ∼HSK 6
zhǎo marsh gas; methane CH4 ∼HSK 6
jīng jiào to cry out in fear ∼HSK 6
xiāo fáng shuān fire hydrant ∼HSK 6
suì liè to disintegrate; to shatter into small pieces ∼HSK 6
diàn air cushion (as on hovercraft) ∼HSK 6
tōng xiāo to spend the whole night ∼HSK 6
junk; items of no value; various bits and bobs ∼HSK 6
míng to hoot; to whistle ∼HSK 6
tóng rén (formal) colleague; fellow member (of an organization or profession) ∼HSK 6