Lust, Caution 2007
色‧戒
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai.
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Vocabulary
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| 线 線 | thread; string; wire; line; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | |
| 容易 容易 | easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to | |
| 里面 裡面 | inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] | |
| 个人 個人 | individual; personal; oneself | |
| 终于 終於 | at last; in the end; finally; eventually | |
| 比较 比較 | to compare; to contrast; comparatively; relatively; quite; comparison | |
| 极了 極了 | extremely; exceedingly | |
| 活 活 | to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | |
| 处理 處理 | to handle; to deal with; to punish; to treat sth by a special process; to process; to sell at reduced prices | |
| 结束 結束 | termination; to finish; to end; to conclude; to close | |
| 消息 消息 | news; information | |
| 部 部 | ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc | |
| 当然 當然 | only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 其实 其實 | actually; in fact; really | |
| 只有 只有 | only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | |
| 任何 任何 | any; whatever; whichever; whatsoever | |
| 一切 一切 | everything; every; all | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 关系 關係 | relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 已 已 | already; to stop; then; afterwards | |
| 继续 繼續 | to continue; to proceed with; to go on with | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 完事 完事 | to be finished (with sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 弄走 弄走 | (coll.) to take (sth) away; to get rid of | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 重庆 重慶 | Chongqing municipality | Proper Noun |
| 湖南 湖南 | Hunan Province, capital Changsha | Proper Noun |
| 四川 四川 | Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu | Proper Noun |
| 易 易 | change; easy | |
| 份子 份子 | Taiwan variant of | |
| 每次 每次 | every time | |
| 让开 讓開 | to get out of the way; to step aside | |
| 知道了 知道了 | OK!; Got it! | |
| 闻到 聞到 | to smell; to sniff sth out; to perceive by smelling | |
| 半边 半邊 | half of sth; one side of sth | |
| 变卦 變卦 | to change one's mind; to go back on one's word | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 一套 一套 | suit; a set; a collection; of the same kind; the same old stuff; set pattern of behavior | |
| 哭喊 哭喊 | to wail | |
| 海角 海角 | cape; promontory |