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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| 可惜 可惜 | it is a pity; what a pity; unfortunately | |
| 屋 屋 | (bound form) house; (bound form) room | |
| 吐 吐 | to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances) | |
| 骗 騙 | to cheat; to swindle; to deceive; to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over | |
| 聪明 聰明 | intelligent; clever; bright; smart; acute (of sight and hearing) | |
| 接触 接觸 | to touch; to contact; access; in touch with | |
| 剩下 剩下 | to remain; to be left over | |
| 掌握 掌握 | to grasp (often fig.); to control; to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny); to master; to know well; to understand sth well and know how to use it; fluency | |
| 戏 戲 | trick; drama; play; show | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 之中 之中 | inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during | |
| 版 版 | a register; block of printing; edition; version; page | |
| 疯 瘋 | insane; mad; wild | |
| 枪 槍 | gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 关键 關鍵 | crucial point; crux; key; crucial; pivotal | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 控制 控制 | to control | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 口是心非 口是心非 | duplicity; hypocrisy (idiom) | Idiom |
| 随机应变 隨機應變 | to change according to the situation (idiom); pragmatic | Idiom |
| 聊天 聊天 | to chat; to gossip | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 案子 案子 | long table; counter; (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job | Colloquialism |
| 找抽 找抽 | (coll.) to look for trouble | Colloquialism |
| 拉肚子 拉肚子 | (coll.) to have diarrhea | Colloquialism |
| 老婆 老婆 | (coll.) wife | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 张华 張華 | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician; Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank; other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 农家 農家 | School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | Proper Noun |
| 钓鱼岛 釣魚島 | Diaoyu Islands, claimed by China but controlled by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, also called the Pinnacle Islands | Proper Noun |
| 长虹 長虹 | Changhong (brand) | Proper Noun |
| 顺义 順義 | Shunyi, a district of Beijing | Proper Noun |
| 周润发 周潤發 | Chow Yun-Fat (1955-), Hong Kong TV and film star | Proper Noun |
| 香港警察 香港警察 | Hong Kong Police Force (since 1997) | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 吾 吾 | i, my, our; resist, impede | |
| 曹 曹 | ministry officials; surname | |
| 嫌疑人 嫌疑人 | a suspect | |
| 峰 峯 | peak, summit; hump of camel | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter |