Overheard 3 2014
窃听风云3
Law was a chauffeur for the rural tycoon Luk, and he was jailed for killing a major land owner in a car accident. It was rumored that Luk was behind the land owner’s death, which gave Luk a competitive edge in the native apartment development deal. When Law gets out of prison five years later, the world has changed. Luk’s corporation has grown more powerful, while Luk’s right-hand man Keung has his own agenda to pursue. But things take a surprising turn. With the help of Law’s prison mate and computer whiz Joe, Law drugs Sean and his brothers in the drinks, then modify their mobile phones for wiretapping, Joe gets acquainted with the materialistic single mom Eva, who turns out to have a dark history with both Law and Keung. Through the eavesdropping, Law realizes Keung’s ultimate plan, which may change Hong Kong’s land development forever.
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Vocabulary
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| 了不起 了不起 | amazing; terrific; extraordinary | |
| 孙子 孫子 | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武经七书 | |
| 童年 童年 | childhood | |
| 集合 集合 | to gather; to assemble; (math.) set | |
| 没错 沒錯 | that's right; sure!; rest assured!; that's good; can't go wrong | |
| 老实 老實 | honest; sincere; well-behaved; naive; gullible | |
| 担保 擔保 | to guarantee; to vouch for | |
| 误会 誤會 | to misunderstand; to mistake; misunderstanding | |
| 前途 前途 | prospects; future outlook; journey | |
| 办事 辦事 | to handle (affairs); to work | |
| 淡 淡 | insipid; diluted; weak; mild; light in color; tasteless; indifferent; (variant of 氮) nitrogen | |
| 破产 破產 | to go bankrupt; to become impoverished; bankruptcy | |
| 多年 多年 | many years; for many years; longstanding | |
| 填 填 | to fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in | |
| 薄 薄 | thin; cold in manner; indifferent; weak; light; infertile | |
| 无所谓 無所謂 | to be indifferent; not to matter; cannot be said to be | |
| 眼镜 眼鏡 | spectacles; eyeglasses | |
| 减肥 減肥 | to lose weight | |
| 笨 笨 | stupid; foolish; silly; slow-witted; clumsy | |
| 迟到 遲到 | to arrive late | |
| 大哥 大哥 | eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss | |
| 过分 過分 | excessive; undue; overly | |
| 折 折 | to break; to fracture; to snap; to suffer loss; to bend; to twist; to turn; to change direction; convinced; to convert into (currency); discount; rebate; tenth (in price); classifier for theatrical scenes; to fold; accounts book | |
| 玉米 玉米 | corn; maize | |
| 总之 總之 | in a word; in short; in brief | |
| 交换 交換 | to exchange; to swap; to switch (telecom); commutative (math); to commute | |
| 密码 密碼 | cipher; secret code; password; PIN | |
| 大型 大型 | large; large-scale | |
| 指挥 指揮 | to conduct; to command; to direct; conductor (of an orchestra) | |
| 镜头 鏡頭 | camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc); scene | |
| 肥 肥 | fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure | |
| 工程 工程 | engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking | |
| 似的 似的 | seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de] | |
| 万一 萬一 | just in case; if by any chance; contingency | |
| 批 批 | to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges) | |
| 脱 脫 | to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from | |
| 归 歸 | to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | |
| 奖 獎 | prize; award; encouragement | |
| 盖 蓋 | lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build | |
| 闹 鬧 | noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke | |
| 号码 號碼 | number | |
| 卷 卷 | to roll up; roll; classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc) | |
| 即将 即將 | on the eve of; to be about to; to be on the verge of | |
| 躺 躺 | to recline; to lie down | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 官 官 | government official; governmental; official; public; organ of the body | |
| 戴 戴 | to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support | |
| 合同 合同 | (business) contract | |
| 手里 手裡 | in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands | |
| 货 貨 | goods; money; commodity |