No Man's Land 2013
无人区
Pan Xiao, a young lawyer, goes to a rural small village settled in the western desert lands of China to handle the case of a falcon poacher who has ran over a policeman. Pan wins the case through sophisticated reasoning and forces the poacher to give him his car as a reward. Then, he just drives back home, but the return will not be an easy one.
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Vocabulary
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| 丫头 丫頭 | girl; servant girl; (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment) | |
| 捅 捅 | to stab; to poke; to prod; to nudge; to disclose | |
| 证人 證人 | witness | |
| 陈述 陳述 | an assertion; to declare; to state | |
| 膝盖 膝蓋 | knee; (Internet slang) to kneel down (in admiration) | |
| 自私 自私 | selfish; selfishness | |
| 盗窃 盜竊 | to steal | |
| 人质 人質 | hostage | |
| 鹰 鷹 | eagle; falcon; hawk | |
| 杀害 殺害 | to murder | |
| 涉嫌 涉嫌 | to be a suspect (in a crime); to be suspected of | |
| 卡车 卡車 | truck | |
| 无辜 無辜 | innocent; innocence; not guilty (law) | |
| 谈论 談論 | to discuss; to talk about | |
| 哎呀 哎呀 | interjection of wonder, shock or admiration | |
| 保佑 保佑 | to bless and protect; blessing | |
| 有意 有意 | to intend; intentionally; interested in | |
| 窝 窩 | nest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair; den; place; to harbor or shelter; to hold in check; to bend; classifier for litters and broods | |
| 驾 駕 | to harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive; to pilot; to sail; to ride; your good self; prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辞) | |
| 实话 實話 | truth | |
| 绑架 綁架 | to kidnap; to abduct; to hijack; a kidnapping; abduction; staking | |
| 瞎 瞎 | blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 完毕 完畢 | to finish; to end; to complete | |
| 执法 執法 | to enforce a law; law enforcement | |
| 烤 烤 | to roast; to bake; to broil | |
| 致 緻 | (bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite | |
| 之所以 之所以 | (after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以讨厌他 "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)" | |
| 耍 耍 | to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc) | |
| 计 計 | to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge | |
| 拨 撥 | to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 供 供 | to provide; to supply | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 所谓 所謂 | so-called; what is called | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 敲诈勒索 敲詐勒索 | extortion and blackmail (idiom) | Idiom |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 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)? | |
| 放哨 放哨 | to keep watch; to do sentry duty; to be on patrol | |
| 盗猎 盜獵 | to poach (illegally hunt game) | |
| 一氧化碳 一氧化碳 | carbon monoxide CO | |
| 远赴 遠赴 | to travel to (a distant place) | |
| 牲口 牲口 | animals used for their physical strength (mules, oxen etc); beast of burden | |
| 吃素 吃素 | to be a vegetarian | |
| 踢腿 踢腿 | to kick; to do a kick (in dancing, martial arts etc) |