Running Out of Time 1999
暗战
Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 贵姓 貴姓 | what is your surname?; (May I ask) your surname? | Proper Noun |
| 深圳 深圳 | Shenzhen, sub-provincial city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 质 質 | matter, material, substance | |
| 对讲机 對講機 | intercom; walkie-talkie | |
| 案 案 | table, bench; legal case | |
| 一句 一句 | a line of verse; a sentence | |
| 面的 麵的 | abbr. of; minivan taxi | |
| 刘 劉 | surname; kill, destroy | |
| 带走 帶走 | to carry; to take away | |
| 警方 警方 | police | |
| 杀人 殺人 | homicide; to murder; to kill (a person) | |
| 身 身 | body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 | |
| 别客气 別客氣 | don't mention it; no formalities, please | |
| 病假 病假 | sick leave | |
| 拉屎 拉屎 | to defecate; to shit; to crap | |
| 鞋子 鞋子 | shoe | |
| 字条 字條 | brief note | |
| 房契 房契 | deed (for a house) | |
| 一层 一層 | layer | |
| 变通 變通 | pragmatic; flexible; to act differently in different situations; to accommodate to circumstances | |
| 换人 換人 | to replace sb (personnel, sports team player etc); substitution | |
| 多嘴 多嘴 | talkative; to speak out of turn; to blab; to shoot one's mouth off; rumors fly | |
| 器 器 | receptacle, vessel; instrument | |
| 身为 身為 | in the capacity of; as | |
| 离去 離去 | to leave; to exit | |
| 诉 訴 | accuse; sue; inform; narrate | |
| 机房 機房 | machine room; engine room; computer room | |
| 街上 街上 | on the street; in town | |
| 不怕 不怕 | fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though | |
| 多时 多時 | long time | |
| 百万 百萬 | million | |
| 十万 十萬 | hundred thousand | |
| 得很 得很 | (after an adjective) very | |
| 选中 選中 | to select; to choose; to decide on | |
| 某些 某些 | some; certain (things) | |
| 有份 有份 | to have a share of (responsibility etc); to be concerned; to be involved | |
| 不太 不太 | Not too | |
| 站住 站住 | to stand | |
| 走过 走過 | to walk past; to pass by | |
| 等到 等到 | to wait until; by the time when (sth is ready etc) | |
| 对面 對面 | (sitting) opposite; across (the street); directly in front; to be face to face |