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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| 作主 作主 | to decide; to have the final say | |
| 做功 做功 | (physics) to do work; non-vocal acting (in traditional Chinese opera) | |
| 还清 還清 | to pay back in full; to redeem a debt | |
| 缺德 缺德 | mean; nasty; reprehensible; unprincipled | |
| 别理 別理 | don't get involved; ignore it!; don't have anything to do with (him, her etc); don't speak to | |
| 大吉 大吉 | very auspicious; extremely lucky | |
| 驾崩 駕崩 | (of an emperor) to pass away | |
| 精虫 精蟲 | spermatozoon; spermatozoa | |
| 帐目 帳目 | account | |
| 中招 中招 | senior high school enrollment | |
| 揪出 揪出 | to uncover; to ferret out (the culprit) | |
| 善人 善人 | philanthropist; charitable person; well-doer | |
| 家电 家電 | household electric appliance; abbr. for 家用电器 | |
| 绿化 綠化 | to make green with plants; to reforest; (Internet slang) Islamization | |
| 生锈 生銹 | to rust; to grow rusty; to corrode; oxidization | |
| 斯文 斯文 | refined; educate; cultured; intellectual; polite; gentle | |
| 房价 房價 | house price; cost of housing | |
| 楼房 樓房 | a building of two or more stories | |
| 一齐 一齊 | at the same time; simultaneously | |
| 母子 母子 | mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest | |
| 谦虚 謙虛 | modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks | |
| 出面 出面 | to appear personally; to step in; to step forth; to show up | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 自在 自在 | comfortable; at ease | |
| 要不然 要不然 | otherwise; or else; or | |
| 强势 強勢 | strong; powerful; (linguistics) emphatic; intensive | |
| 烟花 煙花 | fireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater) | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 账 賬 | account; bill; debt | |
| 粥 粥 | used in 荤粥 | |
| 纠纷 糾紛 | dispute | |
| 吸毒 吸毒 | to take drugs | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 水泥 水泥 | cement | |
| 心脏病 心臟病 | heart disease | |
| 上市 上市 | to hit the market (of a new product); to float (a company on the stock market) | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 影响力 影響力 | influence; impact | |
| 债 債 | debt | |
| 股东 股東 | shareholder; stockholder | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 正当 正當 | timely; just (when needed) | |
| 刚好 剛好 | just; exactly; to happen to be | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 放手 放手 | to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand | |
| 铺 鋪 | plank bed; place to sleep; shop; store; (old) relay station | |
| 热线 熱線 | hotline (communications link) | |
| 持有 持有 | to hold (passport, views etc) | |
| 合约 合約 | treaty; contract | |
| 和谐 和諧 | harmonious; harmony; (euphemism) to censor |