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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| 哼 哼 | to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! | |
| 嘿 嘿 | hey | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 设 設 | to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if | |
| 粉 粉 | powder; cosmetic face powder; food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour; to turn to powder; (dialect) to whitewash; white; pink; (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉丝); to be a fan of | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 非法 非法 | illegal | |
| 探 探 | to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 罗 羅 | gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift | |
| 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 | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 化腐朽为神奇 化腐朽為神奇 | lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom) | Idiom |
| 一文不值 一文不值 | worthless (idiom); no use whatsoever | Idiom |
| 忍气吞声 忍氣吞聲 | to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence; to swallow one's anger; to grin and bear it | Idiom |
| 偷工减料 偷工減料 | to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom); jerry-building; sloppy work | Idiom |
| 东奔西跑 東奔西跑 | to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily; to bustle about | Idiom |
| 举手之劳 舉手之勞 | lit. the exertion of lifting one's hand (idiom); fig. a very slight effort | Idiom |
| 聪明伶俐 聰明伶俐 | (idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted | Idiom |
| 糊里糊涂 糊裡糊塗 | confused; vague; indistinct; muddle-headed; mixed up; in a daze | Idiom |
| 乌七八糟 烏七八糟 | everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess; obscene; dirty; filthy | Idiom |
| 趁热打铁 趁熱打鐵 | to strike while the iron is hot | Idiom |
| 功亏一篑 功虧一簣 | lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful; to fail through lack of a final effort; to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom) | Idiom |
| 安居乐业 安居樂業 | to live in peace and work happily (idiom) | Idiom |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 横行霸道 橫行霸道 | to oppress; to rule as a despot; to tyrannize | Xiehouyu |
| 志同道合 志同道合 | (idiom) to be devoted to a common cause; to be like-minded | Xiehouyu |
| 有利可图 有利可圖 | profitable | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 不通 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 关你屁事 關你屁事 | (coll.) None of your goddamn business!; Mind your own business! | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | 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)? | |
| 窃听器 竊聽器 | tapping device; bug | |
| 太公 太公 | great-grandfather; (old) grandfather; father | |
| 还我河山 還我河山 | 还: still, yet, also, besides · 我: our, us, i, me, my, we · 河: river; stream; yellow river · 山: mountain, hill, peak | |
| 窃听 竊聽 | to eavesdrop; to wiretap | |
| 闭路电视 閉路電視 | closed-circuit television | |
| 大动脉 大動脈 | main artery (blood vessel); fig. main highway; arterial road | |
| 以和为贵 以和為貴 | harmony is to be prized | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child |