Saving Mr. Wu 2015
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Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped in Beijing by Zhang Hua's gang. The police quickly form a task force and begin the search, ignoring that detectives in charge have only twenty hours before the deadline.
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Vocabulary
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| 监控 監控 | to monitor | |
| 执法 執法 | to enforce a law; law enforcement | |
| 幕 幕 | curtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general; act (of a play) | |
| 怀孕 懷孕 | pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy | |
| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 之所以 之所以 | (after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以讨厌他 "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)" | |
| 原本 原本 | originally; original | |
| 公寓 公寓 | apartment building; block of flats | |
| 尿 尿 | to urinate; urine | |
| 释放 釋放 | to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge | |
| 粉丝 粉絲 | bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; Chinese vermicelli; cellophane noodles; fan (loanword); enthusiast for sb or sth | |
| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 设 設 | to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if | |
| 非法 非法 | illegal | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 案件 案件 | case; instance | |
| 即 即 | namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 以 㕥 | to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place) | |
| 将功补过 將功補過 | to make up for one's faults by doing good deeds (idiom) | Idiom |
| 名垂青史 名垂青史 | lit. reputation will go down in history (idiom); fig. achievements will earn eternal glory | Idiom |
| 垂死挣扎 垂死掙扎 | deathbed struggle; final struggle (idiom) | Idiom |
| 度日如年 度日如年 | a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy; time crawls when one is wretched | Idiom |
| 无牵无挂 無牽無掛 | to have no cares; to be carefree | Idiom |
| 仁至义尽 仁至義盡 | extreme benevolence, utmost duty (idiom); meticulous virtue and attention to duty | Idiom |
| 兜圈子 兜圈子 | to encircle; to go around; to circle; to beat about the bush | Xiehouyu |
| 不开窍 不開竅 | unable to understand; can't get the point | Xiehouyu |
| 露头 露頭 | to show one's head; to give a sign to show one's presence | Xiehouyu |
| 同归于尽 同歸於盡 | to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes; to take sb down with oneself; to end in mutual destruction | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 悬 懸 | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation | Xiehouyu |
| 宰了 宰了 | (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 仗义 仗義 | to uphold justice; to be loyal (to one's friends); to stick by | |
| 手雷 手雷 | grenade | |
| 枪膛 槍膛 | bore of a gun | |
| 蹲下 蹲下 | to squat down; to crouch | |
| 车胎 車胎 | tire | |
| 兜风 兜風 | to catch the wind; to go for a spin in the fresh air | |
| 炮友 炮友 | fuck buddy; friend with benefits | |
| 作案 作案 | to commit a crime | |
| 赎金 贖金 | ransom | |
| 靠谱 靠譜 | reliable; reasonable; probable |