Red Cliff 2008
赤壁（上）
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.
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| 血肉模糊 血肉模糊 | (idiom) badly mangled or mutilated; gruesome | |
| 米粉 米粉 | rice flour; rice-flour noodles; (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan | |
| 活命 活命 | life; to survive; to save a life; to scrape a living | |
| 烹茶 烹茶 | to brew tea | |
| 涌泉 湧泉 | gushing spring; (TCM) acupuncture point KI-1, located on the sole | |
| 连珠 連珠 | joined as a string of pearls; in rapid succession; alignment; Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row | |
| 今朝 今朝 | today (literary) | |
| 罪不容诛 罪不容誅 | the crime is so heinous that death cannot atone for it (idiom); guilty beyond redemption | |
| 归顺 歸順 | to surrender and pay allegiance to | |
| 死罪 死罪 | capital offense; crime punishable by death; my deepest apologies | |
| 久居人下 久居人下 | to long remain subordinate to others (idiom); to be stuck under someone's authority | |
| 生死之交 生死之交 | a friendship to the death (idiom); sworn friends who would die for each other | |
| 用得着 用得著 | to be able to use; useable; to have a use for; (in a question) to be necessary to | |
| 不择手段 不擇手段 | by fair means or foul; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously | |
| 盛行 盛行 | to be in vogue; to be popular; to be prevalent | |
| 忠心 忠心 | good faith; devotion; loyalty; dedication | |
| 造反 造反 | to rebel; to revolt | |
| 舟 舟 | boat | |
| 只顾 只顧 | solely preoccupied (with one thing); engrossed; focusing (on sth); to look after only one aspect | |
| 山坡 山坡 | hillside | |
| 看得见 看得見 | can see; visible | |
| 阔 闊 | rich; wide; broad | |
| 日夜 日夜 | day and night; around the clock | |
| 要好 要好 | to be on good terms; to be close friends; striving for self-improvement | |
| 仰 仰 | to face upward; to look up; to admire; to rely on | |
| 先锋 先鋒 | vanguard; pioneer; avant-garde | |
| 船只 船隻 | ship; boat; vessel | |
| 顽强 頑強 | tenacious; hard to defeat | |
| 过时 過時 | old-fashioned; out of date; to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon | |
| 强盗 強盜 | to rob (with force); bandit; robber | |
| 奏 奏 | to play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old) | |
| 诸位 諸位 | (pron) everyone; Ladies and Gentlemen; Sirs | |
| 免得 免得 | so as not to; so as to avoid | |
| 眼看 眼看 | soon; in a moment; to look on as sth happens | |
| 明日 明日 | tomorrow | |
| 往来 往來 | dealings; contacts; to go back and forth | |
| 昏 昏 | muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness | |
| 父子 父子 | father and son | |
| 早晚 早晚 | morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day | |
| 壶 壺 | pot; classifier for bottled liquid | |
| 恰当 恰當 | appropriate; suitable | |
| 枝 枝 | branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc | |
| 传言 傳言 | rumor; hearsay | |
| 翼 翼 | wing; area surrounding the bullseye of a target; to assist; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy; old variant of 翌 | |
| 撤离 撤離 | to withdraw from; to evacuate | |
| 前方 前方 | ahead; the front | |
| 渡 渡 | to cross; to pass through; to ferry | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 头疼 頭疼 | headache | |
| 派出 派出 | to send; to dispatch |