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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| 小伙子 小伙子 | young man; young guy; lad; youngster | |
| 败 敗 | to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither | |
| 多年 多年 | many years; for many years; longstanding | |
| 棵 棵 | classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc | |
| 哪怕 哪怕 | even; even if; even though; no matter how | |
| 善良 善良 | good and honest; kindhearted | |
| 沉 沉 | to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy | |
| 无所谓 無所謂 | to be indifferent; not to matter; cannot be said to be | |
| 阵 陣 | disposition of troops; wave; spate; burst; spell; short period of time; classifier for events or states of short duration | |
| 各个 各個 | every; various; separately, one by one | |
| 形势 形勢 | circumstances; situation; terrain | |
| 末 末 | tip; end; final stage; latter part; inessential detail; powder; dust; opera role of old man | |
| 大哥 大哥 | eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss | |
| 反而 反而 | on the contrary; instead | |
| 过分 過分 | excessive; undue; overly | |
| 隔 隔 | to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of | |
| 运用 運用 | to use; to put to use | |
| 稳 穩 | settled; steady; stable | |
| 对付 對付 | to handle; to deal with; to tackle; to get by with; to make do; (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb) | |
| 平静 平靜 | tranquil; undisturbed; serene | |
| 培养 培養 | to cultivate; to breed; to foster; to nurture; to educate; to groom (for a position); education; fostering; culture (biology) | |
| 固定 固定 | to fix; to fasten; to set rigidly in place; fixed; set; regular | |
| 预测 預測 | to forecast; to predict | |
| 弱 弱 | weak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as; (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than | |
| 降 降 | to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend | |
| 承受 承受 | to bear; to support; to inherit | |
| 脑袋 腦袋 | head; skull; brains; mental capability | |
| 摸 摸 | to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope; to steal; to abstract | |
| 指挥 指揮 | to conduct; to command; to direct; conductor (of an orchestra) | |
| 守 守 | to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining | |
| 刺 刺 | (onom.) whoosh | |
| 如今 如今 | nowadays; now | |
| 万一 萬一 | just in case; if by any chance; contingency | |
| 兵 兵 | soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike | |
| 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) | |
| 神秘 神秘 | mysterious; mystery | |
| 士兵 士兵 | soldier | |
| 箱 箱 | box; trunk; chest | |
| 阻止 阻止 | to prevent; to block | |
| 挑 挑 | to carry on a shoulder pole; to choose; to pick; to nitpick | |
| 不然 不然 | not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? | |
| 户 戶 | a household; door; family | |
| 夫人 夫人 | lady; madam; Mrs. | |
| 列 列 | to arrange; to line up; file; series; (in data tables) column; (Tw) row | |
| 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 | |
| 治 治 | to rule; to govern; to manage; to control; to harness (a river); to treat (a disease); to wipe out (a pest); to punish; to research | |
| 透 透 | (bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly; through and through; to appear; to show | |
| 卷 卷 | to roll up; roll; classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc) | |
| 转移 轉移 | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize |