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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| 如果 如果 | if; in case; in the event that | |
| 已经 已經 | already | |
| 这样 這樣 | this kind of; so; this way; like this; such | |
| 得 得 | to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished | |
| 可以 可以 | can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good | |
| 为 為 | as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) | |
| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 但 但 | but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 见机行事 見機行事 | see the opportunity and act (idiom); to act according to circumstances; to play it by ear; to use one's discretion | Idiom |
| 多谢 多謝 | many thanks; thanks a lot | Xiehouyu |
| 大喜 大喜 | exultation | Xiehouyu |
| 不动 不動 | motionless | Xiehouyu |
| 不在话下 不在話下 | to be nothing difficult; to be a cinch | Xiehouyu |
| 比不上 比不上 | can't compare with | Xiehouyu |
| 好看 好看 | good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated | Xiehouyu |
| 对不起 對不起 | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint | Xiehouyu |
| 干 乹 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 不会 不會 | improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all | Colloquialism |
| 那是 那是 | (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed | Colloquialism |
| 看看 看看 | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon | Colloquialism |
| 真是 真是 | indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) | Colloquialism |
| 吃的 吃的 | (coll.) food | Colloquialism |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 这不 這不 | (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) | Colloquialism |
| 对不对 對不對 | right or wrong?; Is it right?; OK, yes? (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 好不好 好不好 | (coll.) all right?; OK? | Colloquialism |
| 白读 白讀 | colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character | Colloquialism |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 东吴 東吳 | Eastern Wu (222-280); the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 | Proper Noun |
| 百里 百里 | two-character surname Baili | Proper Noun |
| 水里 水裡 | Shuili Township in Nantou County, central Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 水上 水上 | Shuishang Township in Chiayi County, west Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 打下 打下 | to lay (a foundation); to conquer (a city etc); to shoot down (a bird etc) | Proper Noun |
| 大汉 大漢 | Han Dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 常山 常山 | Changshan county in Quzhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 八里 八里 | Bali or Pali township in New Taipei City, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 西门 西門 | two-character surname Ximen | Proper Noun |
| 吃不上 吃不上 | unable to get anything to eat; to miss a meal | |
| 军 軍 | army, military; soldiers, troops | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 不能 不能 | cannot; must not; should not | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 这是 這是 | this is; this is the ... | |
| 一点 一點 | a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia |